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Raising awareness about the Affordable Care Act

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Where were the empowered deep brown women in ‘Dark Girls’?

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MSNBC's Touré on how Essence beat ‘The Cosby Show’ to cool

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Black top NHL draft picks are changing face of hockey

OPINION - Seth Jones has been heralded as the next great hockey player for years now, and is acutely aware…
/ July 2, 2013

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

OPINION - With the Fourth of July holiday just around the corner, and as we near the 50-year celebration of…
/ July 1, 2013

History is repeating itself at Guantánamo Bay

OPINION - The detainees there today are not the first to be held indefinitely there, nor are they the first…
/ July 1, 2013

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

OPINION - What makes people racist is their unwillingness to acknowledge it in the first place combined with an unwillingness…
/ June 30, 2013

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