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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 24, 2014
OPINION – Calling Justin Bieber a thug does not make the racial insults hurled at Richard Sherman any more palatable, so let’s stop with that half-hearted campaign…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 20, 2014
OPINION – Madonna’s use of the n-word as a ‘term of endearment’ towards her white son on Instagram is perhaps a peek into her household and her way of being a ‘cool mom’…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 15, 2014
OPINION – It’s a beautiful thing to have people who love you and who would fight for you, but don’t abuse that privilege…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 3, 2014
OPINION – The intense, around-the-clock documentation of celebrity life by paparazzi and the over-sharing that many famous (and non-famous) people do online, make us feel like we know these public figures, but we do not…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 30, 2013
OPINION – Singer songwriter Ani DiFranco, who is known for her staunchly anti-sexist and anti-racist lyrics, has decided to cancel a feminist songwriting retreat that was going to be held on a Louisiana plantation…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 20, 2013
OPINION – The First Amendment is the right of free speech, not to be confused with being suspended from a reality show…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 13, 2013
OPINION – Fox News devoted several minutes of television airtime to debating the ‘facts’ about the race of Santa Claus…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 19, 2013
OPINION – If having a cast of actors that are mostly of one race is the qualifier for a film to be deemed race-themed, then beloved favorites like ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Mean Girls’ are race-themed movies too…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 13, 2013
OPINION – Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen said it’s not fair that people are calling him racist because of a controversial line he wrote about Bill de Blasio earlier this week…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 4, 2013
OPINION – Nobody was expecting SNL to tackle its latest negative headlines so directly and comedy is generally funnier when it contains a grain of truth, but in typical SNL fashion, the sketch comedy show dropped the ball…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 31, 2013
OPINION – Realistically, the folks who will read this article are black people who already know that blackface is not the move. So it is your job, readers, to pass along this precious intel to your white friends…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 28, 2013
OPINION – It would be great if a former drug-dealing, public housing-living black man who became a multi-millionaire entertainer and legitimate businessman used his influence and newly acquired wealth to chip away at institutional racism…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his collaborator Dr. Donald Yacovone have exciting findings for African-American history buffs in his new book and six-part PBS documentary entitled ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross’…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Let’s be clear. An 8-year-old can not consent to sex and especially not to a teenager, no matter the gender or how ‘grown up’ the 8-year-old is…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Phylicia Rashad, Taraji P. Henson and S. Epatha Merkerson open up about performing in ‘August Wilson’s American Century Cycle’ …
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 13, 2013
OPINION – Toni Morrison is literary royalty and though her work is fiction, it is rooted in real life, real struggles and real triumphs. We need the Toni Morrisons of the world to better understand ourselves and eachother. We need storytellers…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 29, 2013
OPINION – This lack of a love life, or at least a public one anyway, has led some to the conclusion that he must be gay. That is a ridiculous assumption, by the way. Booker’s response to such rumors is brilliant…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Black women with large behinds are not accessories. Grills, trap music and stripper anthems are not all there is to black culture. These are little life lessons that Miley Cyrus seems to be unaware of…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Is it too soon for art inspired by this horrific incident and is it even possible to do so tactfully regardless of the time-frame?…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Singer/songwriter Amel Larrieux, half of the chart-topping 90s duo Groove Theory, is set to release a solo album during this fall.