Politics
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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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Talking Vaginas and Football Heroes: Gender, Race and Advertising
Summer’s Eve has pulled its controversial “Hail to the V” ads amidst enormous criticism from feminists, bloggers, YouTube watchers and…well, just about everybody. Thank goodness...
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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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Dial M for Murdoch and Mayhem
The pathways into the Murdoch scandal are so numerous that a single writer knows from the outset of any attempt to address it that his...
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‘Keep Your Sorry’: On Slavery, Marriage and the Possibility of Love
Recently, the Iowa based organization, The Family Leader, apologized for a controversial reference to slavery in their “Marriage Vow,” a document that it created to...
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Sex, Parenting, and Feminism
A few days ago, my partner Bill walked into our older daughter’s room, where the clunky desktop Mac is located, and to his shock and...
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On Her Birthday: Ida B. Wells
Last Saturday marked Ida B. Wells’ 149th birthday. On July 16, 1862, a few months before the Emancipation Proclamation and three years before the Thirteenth...
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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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Still Colored: Education, Evolution and the NAACP
Principle inspired by Pandwe Gibson en cuba when asked about the challenge a godless country he said education is our religion home in the precinct...
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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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Food is a Feminist Issue
Recently the United States Department of Agriculture announced that new public health campaigns would abandon the food pyramid. The USDA food guide pyramid was originally...
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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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Strauss-Kahn, Domestic Immigrants and Money, Power, Respect
See I believe in money, power and respect. First you get the money. Then you get the motherf–kin’ power. And after you get the f–kin’...
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The Meaning of the 4th of July, 2011
Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day, rendered more intolerable by...
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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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“We Don’t Just Litigate and Leave”: A Conversation with NAPW
I recently enjoyed a lively conversation with Lynn Paltrow, J.D., Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), and Board President Jeanne...