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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
March 8, 2011
OPINION – Too many kids are not being taught the proper respect and values at home, or how to conduct themselves in public…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
February 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – Vice President Biden welcomed over 120 elected African-American officials and their guests to their official residence in honor of Black History Month…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 13, 2011
OPINION – This speech will go down in the annals of politics as one of the most inspiring, compassionate and reflective of our time…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 10, 2011
OPINION – We need our president to lead by example, use his bully pulpit and help us to come out of this dark political abyss of heated speech and rhetoric…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 30, 2010
OPINION – After taking a major media pummeling for his comments and under increasing pressure to do something about the unjust double-life sentencing of two black sisters…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 14, 2010
THEGRIO Q & A – theGrio was able to secure an exclusive first interview with Steele about an hour after he announced his plans to run for a second term as RNC chairman…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 13, 2010
OPINION – I hope her visit to Haiti teaches her that there is a big difference between campaigning and governing…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 9, 2010
theGRIO Q&A – Scott has made headlines because he is the first black Republican elected to Congress from South Carolina since Reconstruction…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 16, 2010
OPINION – The Obamas represent a tangible and real change for the better in our public dialogue and perception of black families…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 14, 2010
OPINION – My concern is that once again black men are not seeing the proverbial forest for the trees…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 3, 2010
OPINION – This election was not about socialism, a president who was illegitmate, or black, or any of the other nonsense we have heard spewed in the last two years…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 29, 2010
OPINION – Meek could have had a good shot at winning in Florida if he had been given the support and exposure that he has certainly earned as a good foot soldier…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
October 21, 2010
OPINION – To see this accomplished black female lawyer vilified as a lying, bitter, scorned woman picking on a nice black man married to a white woman was just jaw dropping…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 14, 2010
OPINION – My advice to the sisters (of all hues) is to keep doing that which makes you feel fabulous and successful, but be mindful that men do not share our wiring…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 2, 2010
OPINION – I would rather see the NAACP’s wisdom and energy spent focusing on policing “us” and our own community…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 30, 2010
OPINION – America does need to revisit, seriously who we are and who we want to be as we move forward into this new century…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 24, 2010
OPINION – “Muslim” has become synonymous with all that is wrong in the world–right or wrong–deserved or not…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 26, 2010
OPINION – This must be a misprint I thought — no sitting Democratic U.S. Senator with a black population of almost 20 percent would be so openly divisive…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 22, 2010
OPINION – How sad is it that our president, our nation’s first black president, cannot speak out to the nation in a major address and ask us to calm it down …
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 4, 2009
OPINION – Governors-elect Bob McDonnell (VA) and Chris Christie (NJ) proved last night that the moderate/centrist wing of the GOP is not dead.