All posts by Guest Contributor
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Featured Writer: shulamith eagle
Visit to the Androcologist The office is spacious, airy and full of plants and sunlight, yet it has the subtle aroma of a medical office,...
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Help for "The Help"
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D. Within twenty-four hours, friends sent three critical reviews of “The Help,” a film that is garnering high praise, boosting sales...
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Second (and Third, and Fourth…) Helpings: A Big Black Woman’s Thoughts on "The Help"
By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Until more recently than I’d like to admit, I constructed my identity in direct opposition to the image of the Mammy....
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Featured Artist: J'Nell Jordan, Painter
She Just Wanna Dance Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″ x 36″ Sky High Daze Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″...
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Beyond The Sacrificial Good Woman: Black Feminism and Freethought
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1997 film The Apostle, Robert Duvall plays a white Southern Christian fundamentalist preacher and murderer on the lam and seeking...
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Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
By Duchess Harris, PhD, JD. I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling...
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Resurrecting the Great Mother
By Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW “I found god in myself and I loved her /I loved her fiercely.” – Ntozake Shange We come into this world...
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“Feministing” Bernini: What Italian Art Taught Me
By Keri Day How might art both reflect complex social realities and inspire social realities to be more radically inclusive and complimentary of human flourishing?...
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A Prophet in Exile: A Personal Meditation on James Baldwin
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou After the re-election of George W. Bush, I was done with America. Less than a year into Bush’s second term, I...
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Featured Poet: Stephanie M. Pruitt
Ode to the Hyphen ____________ No dash, minus sign or broken line, you fill / and make continuous until there is no pause / for...
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"Honored to Be One of His Intellectual Offspring": My Tribute to Dr. Manning Marable
By Zaheer Ali On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Columbia University hosted a public celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Manning Marable. My complete remarks*...
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Poet Spotlight: Rickey Laurentiis
Mood for Love ____________NEW ORLEANS, LA ____________AUGUST, 2005 ______1. (There I go.) I am the man / stepping up to the water. I am...
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The Pink Days: Living Happily Ever After the New York State Gay Marriage Bill?
By Darnell L. Moore Soon are the days when progressives (and, neoconservatives alike) will deploy the Empire State’s Marriage Equality Act as a case for...
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Writer Spotlight: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Food-Related Flashes I have reached a lifetime low. In this very moment, I sit perched on the edge of a bathroom counter with no soap,...
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Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein
By Sharon J. Kirsch When Gertrude Stein comes to the United States, she does so in a big way. In 1934, Stein, who had spent...
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Queering Democracy and Christianity
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou A few years ago, I interviewed to serve as the Senior Minister of a church in the Bronx. I was...
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The New Obama Factor: Why Michelle Obama Matters
By Keri Day There is a new Obama Factor. And it’s not the President. Michelle Obama’s recent trip to South Africa inspired me to...
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On Her Birthday: Octavia E. Butler, Mountain Climber
Four days ago, my colleague and I decided to set off on our own, without our host, to explore London—a quick sightseeing and shopping trip...