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Hands Up, Won't Shoot: Black Protest Isn't Black Progress  - white America , and riots were the perfect tool. Although this new culture of black authenticity gave rise to black artists and intellectuals, black poverty  ...

On The Realities Of Being A Black Woman With Borderline Personality Disorder - I’ve never seen my mother cry. When I was younger I came to the conclusion that she was cold, but with time I realized this simply wasn’t true. I know my mother is emotional: I’ve seen her joyful, I’ve seen her furious, I’ve seen her excited and scared and even sad, I’ve just never seen her cry. I later grew up to understand that we live in a world that doesn’t grant black women vulnerability — and that black women everywhere suffer for it immeasurably. It is for this exact reason that I couldn’t admit to myself that I was ill for a very long time. I associated vulnerability with weakness, and as Ghanaian-American writer Meri Nana-Ama Danquah writes in her memoir Willow Weep For Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression , “weakness in black women is intolerable.” In a way, that’s what made my Borderline Personality Disorder an even more terrifying diagnosis — emotional instability is not in th...

UNT Black Out Alliance aims to bridge gap between black and LGBTQ communities - Just over a month ago, UNT students Sydney-Marie Valentine-Parris and Brooke Roberson started an organization called the Black Out Alliance as a way to bring awareness and bridge the connection between the black and LGBTQ communities due to a void of representation in this area. Fast forward 

A Vision for Black Lives" Calls for an End to the War on Black LGBTs  - It also outlines specific policy goals regarding black LGBT Americans: "end to the war on black trans, queer and gender nonconforming people , ...

Expanding Black Masculinity to End 'Black on Black' Anti-LGBT Violence Last year a report released by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs showed that the number of hate crimes against members of the LGBT community rose 13 percent in 2010, and that people of color and transgender women were most likely to be ...

The White House Welcomes Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church for Black History ...  - The film will be part of a Black History Month event highlighting the LGBTQ community and will include opening remarks by Clay Cane. Also, the event ...

Black , queer, ignored: Why the LGBT community is divided on Black Lives Matter  -  People think that because they identify with one marginalized group, LGBT , that they know and can identify with other marginalized groups, black ,” ...

Black History Month ignores gays  - I feel apathetic about black history month due to the bigotry and hypocrisy against black LGBT people. The only history about black people which is  ...

Can We Safeguard the Mental Health of Black Children in a Time of Black Trauma?  - Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, a third generation physician and author, reminds us that Black children are not blind or immune from racism.

Black boys fare worse than white boys in 99 percent of America , massive study finds - Simply because you're in an area that is more affluent, it's still hard for black boys to present themselves as independent from the stereotype of black criminality,” Khiara Bridges, a professor of law and anthropology at Boston University who has written on discrimination against affluent black people, told ...

With No More Cotton to Pick, What Will America Do with 40 Million Black People?  - If you are Black in America , being educated , hard-working and crime-free ensures nothing. Black unemployment and the deprivation of Black wealth in ...

Black Children Are More Likely To Live In Poverty Than Children Of Other Races  - In fact, 2 out of 5 Black children live in poverty , or 38 percent of the 11 million Black children living in America , the study reveals. That means Black ...

An Identity Crisis in America's Black Mecca - Yet as stubborn racial inequality continues to plague the city, some are questioning whether Atlanta's history of black mayoral leadership has translated to economic empowerment for the city's black residents. Meanwhile, as Atlanta's demographics change—the proportion of black residents has declined ..

The need for stories about black history remains - Then there is the poor argument that Black History Month is no longer needed; maybe never was. The Civil Rights Act, after all, was passed more than 50 years ago. A black man was elected president. Inequality no longer exists, the argument goes, so Black History Month is unnecessary and divides us .

Black, LGBT , American I am black, but rendered invisible within most mainstream LGBT movements. I am gay and have been ostracized by the homophobia of other black people. I am male and realize that my privileges are not granted to black lesbian and trans women. Like Carson  ...

Black Churches In NJ In Towards Tolerance An interesting survey of the state of New Jersey's black churches vis a vis LGBT rights appeared today in The Star/Ledger. Apparently, black churches want it known: LGBTs are welcome. Even in "leadership positions." Kind of. ...

Tragedy in parts of Black America - Dawn Hodsen's opinion piece “Black Crime Matters” tried to bring some facts to the conversation about the crises in black communities in Washington DC, Baltimore and Chicago due to their incredibly high homicide rate. Unfortunately, Joshua Porter, in his article “Words Matter”, invoked the usual racist ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

America Is Sacrificing Black Education for a False Meritocracy -  America Is Sacrificing Black Education for a False Meritocracy ... Another claimed it would be unfair to the new black and Hispanic students, who ...

The 'terrible' hypocrisy that got Chicago's first black lesbian mayor elected - Women and LGBTQ members are still treated like second-class citizens in many black churches across America. Two of the nation's largest black ...

Is the church to blame for homophobia in black America? By Mashaun D. Simon For years now, black churches have carried a reputation of being misogynistic and homophobic institutions. However, one young theologian believes the image of "The Black Church" so commonly upheld in society is, and has been, ...