All posts tagged "U.S."
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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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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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“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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Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, and the Black Church's Sanctioning of Sexual Violence
In September 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, prominent Atlanta pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, was accused of sexual improprieties with four young men—Anthony Flagg, Spencer...
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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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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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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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Views on the West Wing (I)
It is fair to say that the Obama Presidency has set my mind awash in currents of confusion: I confess—I don’t know what the man...
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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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On the Death of Osama bin Laden
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman My son asked me last night if I were “happy” that Osama bin Laden had been killed. He expressed his own sense...
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On the Record: the Right’s Document Fetish
Academics, especially those in the humanities, cannot escape bad news. We hear of fresh budget cuts on a weekly basis. In the last few weeks...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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WISCONSIN: Why It Matters
By Joy Schulman I arrived in Madison in September 1969 to begin my junior year at the University of Wisconsin. Moving from Newark, New Jersey,...
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Between Love and Duty
By Rachel Broadwater On March 10, 2011 activist Quannell X spearheaded a rally in connection to the brutal gang rape of an 11-year-old Latina girl...
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Reproductive Tourism
A recent article in the New York Times describes the discovery of birth houses in San Gabriel, California, where “relatively wealthy” Chinese women were stealthily...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...