James Byrd

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Three alleged white supremacists who violently beat an African-American man while he waited at a Houston bus stop have been found guilty of a federal hate crime…
/ April 17, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – The cases couldn’t be any more different yet each has reignited a debate over the death penalty…
/ September 22, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – The 49-year-old Byrd, a black man from Jasper, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road…
/ September 21, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
JASPER, TEXAS (AP) – Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is set to be executed Wednesday for participating in fastening Byrd to the truck, pulling him along the road and dumping what was left of his shredded body…
/ September 21, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – These are clear examples of the progress that is being made by the Obama administration on a social agenda. That progress is often overlooked…
/ November 4, 2009
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – The LGBT struggle is a Civil Rights struggle yet, in the black community, fear of homosexuality (in others and in ourselves) prevents us from advancing this cause as our own…
/ October 28, 2009