Opinion

From DOMA to the Voting Rights Act: Civil rights history made and unmade in Washington last week

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History is repeating itself at Guantánamo Bay

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Dear Paula Deen: Having ‘black friends’ is not enough

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Your black ain’t like mine: A light girl’s thoughts on ‘Dark Girls’

OPINION - Sometimes, us light-skinned girls need to be secure enough in our own blackness to simply listen...
/ June 30, 2013

A call to action in the wake of the Supreme Court’s voting rights act decision

OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision to tear out the heart out of the Voting Rights Act should serve as…
/ June 29, 2013

And still sci-fi’s Octavia E. Butler rises: A graphic adaptation. A literary society. Is a ‘Kindred’ movie next?

ESSAY - Many of us thought about Butler, who died in 2006, on her recent June 22 birthday -- but…
/ June 29, 2013

What’s at stake on Obama’s Africa trip

OPINION - This visit to Africa and to these three countries specifically will be a defining moment for the relationship…
/ June 29, 2013

In defense of Trayvon Martin case witness Rachel Jeantel

OPINION - Jeantel is real, not ready for television. As long as she is telling the truth, her diction, her…
/ June 28, 2013

Gay rights or civil rights, the struggle is American

OPINION - It's that common link, that discrimination that binds us together, gay and black, white and straight and any…
/ June 28, 2013

Reflections on DOMA: A coming out story that ends with the dream of equality nearly fufilled

ESSAY - Looking back on the scared gay kid I once was, I never would have dreamed that I would…
/ June 28, 2013

Paula Deen controversy, Trayvon Martin testimony re-open messy n-word debate

OPINION - However improbably, two of the week's biggest stories – the self-inflicted travails of Paula Deen and the trial…
/ June 27, 2013

Why Jay-Z’s ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ needs to be a classic

OPINION - So far the summer of 2013 has been heavy with a variety rap releases and it doesn't appear…
/ June 27, 2013

2013 NBA Draft prospects a shell of ’03 class

OPINION - Three members of the 2003 NBA Draft class just completed back to back title runs. And a fourth…
/ June 27, 2013

Could there ever be a ‘Light Girls’ documentary?

OPINION - There is a growing crop of people who feel the 'Dark Girls' documentary’s biggest flaw is that it…
/ June 27, 2013

Obama skipping Kenya on his Africa trip is a missed opportunity

OPINION - Some people are mad at President Barack Obama, but not the ones you might expect. This time, don’t…
/ June 27, 2013