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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 28, 2011
OPINION – Sir Charles, as he is sometimes called, sets an example for other black men who don’t typically receive an anti-obesity/pro-health message…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 14, 2011
OPINION – Gene Marks of Forbes wrote a column entitled “If I Wear a Poor Black Kid” (which has been “removed from their website)…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 21, 2011
OPINION – Kid Cudi plans to release his upcoming third album, by his side-group ‘WZRD’, sans curses and the infamous n-word…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 17, 2011
OPINION – Sly didn’t make it easy. Unlike Clinton, or James Brown, or even Rick James, Stone disappeared completely from the spotlight, shunning the entire industry…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 15, 2011
OPINION – They were trying to kill the movement. They’ve only set themselves up for an incredibly long fight…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Racism is much more deeply entrenched in the fabric of American life than a simple whitewashing of one’s identity can solve…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – We need jobs now, absolutely, but if something isn’t done about the student loan debt crisis, we very well could be looking at turning this Great Recession into a full on depression…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 5, 2011
OPINION – In a way, it’s the ‘post-racial’ version of ‘Planet of the Apes’ in the same way America has experienced this idea of post-racialism…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 21, 2011
OPINION – No matter what the source of these vicious and hateful comments, what remains is that they have no place in the political discourse…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 8, 2011
OPINION – We can simply can not say we have Haiti’s best interests at heart and simultaneously work diligently to ensure those interests are not fulfilled…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Rodney King brought the issues of police brutality and racial profiling to the forefront of the American political landscape….
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 3, 2011
OPINION – In our celebrity obsessed culture, no one felt the intense pressure and scrutiny of public life more than Michael Jackson…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 22, 2010
OPINION – Even as it has gained in popularity, Kwanzaa still isn’t an enormously popular tradition among the constituency for which it was intended…