About David A. Love

David A. Love is a journalist and commentator who writes investigative stories and op-eds on a variety of issues, including politics, social justice, human rights, race, criminal justice and inequality. Love is also an instructor at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, where he trains students in a social justice journalism lab. In addition to his journalism career, Love has worked as an advocate and leader in the nonprofit sector, served as a legislative aide, and as a law clerk to two federal judges. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also completed the Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. His portfolio website is davidalove.com.

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – With the collapse of Morris Brown College — due to financial mismanagement, corruption, financial aid theft and foreclosure—and the overall precarious fiscal state of HBCUs, some are wondering if these schools can be trusted to properly manage their finances…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – Unless the state’s Board of Pardons prevents it, Pennsylvania is about to execute Terrance ‘Terry’ Williams, 46, who was sent to death row for the 1984 murder of Amos Norwood, a man who had sexually abused him as a child.
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 11, 2012
OPINION – When it comes to elections, does being likable make you winnable? President Obama will have the opportunity to put this to the test…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 27, 2012
OPINION – Gawker just released 950 pages of once confidential documents related to Romney family’s investments, most of which were through Bain Capital, his private equity firm…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – Looking at this on a purely political level, Rep. Jackson’s absence generated a great deal of speculation, even theories that he was in hiding due to an addiction problem or entanglements with the law…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 1, 2012
OPINION – When TJ Holmes says that ‘Driving while black ain’t no joke,’ believe him…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – This is not the first time that Hannity has come to the defense of people accused of racially insensitive brutality such as Zimmerman…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 19, 2012
OPINION – Romney’s pick of a running mate comes at a time when the Republicans’ minority outreach efforts face an uphill battle even within the party…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of people from casting ballots in a state President Obama essentially must win to be re-elected…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – To be sure, making over-the-top statements is Bill Maher’s shtick. But sometimes it reminds you of the white guy with black friends who slips and says the “n-word,” much to the dismay of that white guy’s former black friends…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 5, 2012
OPINION – The jury is still out on Roberts, but before we consider him a new reliable swing vote or a conservative-turned-liberal justice, consider the evidence that this was nothing less than a political move on his part…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 26, 2012
OPINION – This week the U.S. Supreme Court scored a victory for reform in the criminal justice system…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 22, 2012
OPINION – There’s a big and bitter Congressional primary race brewing in New York that is typical of the political clashes between black candidates of late…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 20, 2012
OPINION – Is Jesse Jackson still relevant? And can he remain relevant in the age of Obama?…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 18, 2012
OPINION – Before Rodney King, police brutality was not on the radar screen of white Americans, who were all too ready to buy into the notion of black criminality…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 8, 2012
OPINION – This week in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, gay rights groups protested the NYPD’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy, which targets mostly black and Latino men…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
June 5, 2012
OPINION – Is Barack Obama black enough? Should we care? We need to stop arguing over President Obama’s blackness and just move on to a more productive conversation…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 31, 2012
OPINION – Taylor’s conviction places the spotlight on neighboring Liberia, which has a special relationship with African-Americans…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 11, 2012
OPINION – Before Powell starts to rewrite that chapter in history — or at least put his own spin on it — he cannot let himself off the hook for the Iraq war, or the case he made to go forward with it…
May 3, 2012
OPINION – A recent CNN|ORC poll puts Rice at the top of the list of Republicans vice-presidential contenders. But Rice in the number two spot not be the cakewalk that Juan Williams suggests…