Now you know we gotta rock our all-time fav’ Mos Def cut Ms. Fat Booty, right? Just press play. Hip hop artist Mos Def will be among five storytellers who will each present a personal 10-minute story of an experience where they faced discrimination. The showcases titled A More Perfection Union: Stories of Prejudice and [...]
We recently came across this post on Racialicious titled Where Is The Proof That It Gets Better? Queer POC and the Solidarity Gap. The post is deep. And it offers a myriad of opinions and scenarios on race, Queers, sexuality and bullying in the black community. But mainly the post addresses the absence of racism, [...]
Tuan N’Gai, a civil rights activist, author and founder of Silence Equals Consent, has organized an interfaith prayer vigil in honor of the memories of LGBT youth that committed suicide. The vigil, “Breaking the Silence So Healing Can Begin,” will be held at noon Nov. 13 at the Willie A. Watkins Special Events Center at [...]
From Reuters: It was Stephanie Lane’s first day on the job as a waitress at Homegirl Café and the last thing she wanted to do was wait on the police. The restaurant, staffed by female gang members trying to leave their past behind, is part of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program – and [...]
Well isn’t this nice? Courage Campaign has went through the trouble of creating a nifty voter guide for all you liberal and progressive voters out there so you won’t have to go through the trouble of researching candidates one by one. Not only that, via Credo, they’ve also created access to a mobile guide that [...]
Big shout out to our friend Mr. Bill Smith for sharing this on Facebook. This creative effort is probably the most amazing project we’ve seen to date that highlights humanity and our deep misunderstanding about each other—those who we deem our enemies. As we watched this project our eyes brimming, we also thought about what [...]
Well, well, well, we gotta hand it to Torie Osborn. She knows how to take care of her peeps. Torie Osborn by the way is a longtime lesbian activist in Los Angeles. She used to head up the Liberty Hill Foundation once upon a time. But now with an eye toward politics, she’s laying out [...]
