All posts by Guest Contributor
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Poetry Spotlight: Ansel Elkins
WOMAN WITH THE SEVERED ARM i At dawn she leaves the house in her field coat, the skinny hound on the porch follows. _______The fog...
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Feminist Musings on the Republican Presidential Debate: A “Democratic” Makeover?
By Keri Day The Republican Party is in desperate need of a “democratic” makeover. Growing up in Springfield, Illinois, I was socialized to embrace the...
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The Global Imagination of James Baldwin
This interview between Sean Jacobs, professor and founder of the blog africasacountry.com, and Rich Blint, was first published at the interviewer’s site and appears here...
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Spotlight Poet: Ladan Osman
For the Woman whose Love is a Bird of Passage————- I am so poor before you. A grackle / whose colors are as good as...
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“Say What?!” N.J. Governor Christie’s Proposed Cuts to Medicaid Changes Eligibility from $24,645 to $5,317 for a Family of Three!
By Joy Schulman MEDICAID/MEDICARE—it’s all so confusing! What are we talking about?? Recently, Medicare and Medicaid have often been used interchangeably; though they are quite...
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Playing Games with Race
by Omar Ricks NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too published on The Feminist Wire on...
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Compassionate Feminism
A practice in compassion is, particularly for myself as a woman, an act of feminism. If I turn my practice inward, if I look to...
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Featured Poet: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces — Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. / Spring so uneasy this year. / No matter morning’s boundary...
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The Mildred Patricia Baena Story
By Allison McCarthy A sketch from Monday night’s episode of Lopez Tonight is grabbing entertainment headlines. Comedian George Lopez claimed to have a world exclusive...
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Artist Spotlight: Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Untitled 2011 Oil 20” by 20” La Mecedora #2 2009 Oil 40” by 40” Ghana 2008 Mixed Media 35” by 48” Ines P....
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Gay and Transgender Prophets—Telling the Truth
By T.J. Williams In recent years I have committed myself to the work of justice that speaks loudly and boldly to proclaim that God is...
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Cornel West and the Crisis in Black Leadership
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a...
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Transfiguring Masculinities in Black Women’s Studies
By C. Riley Snorton Although there continues to be controversy regarding whether men can create black feminist scholarship, numerous black feminist theorists have argued for...
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Sluts on Parade
By Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Brown University The Slutwalk is sweeping the world – women and men, march and shout chants, carrying banners...
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The United States of Incarceration
By LaToyyia Knight-Gonzales and Monica J. Casper America has a prison problem. And this problem does not involve a shortage of jails. Nor is it...
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Featured Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
from “A Strange People” We-Chrissie will let the white men see and touch our difference. She will smile for doctors and handlers like Mrs. Susan’s...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
