I want to ask you, what do you believe will happen in the afterlife? Are we as the human race going to be okay? Should I worry about what’s going to happen to me after death? My girlfriend who believes in God but struggles with what to believe in exactly, is she going to be okay?
SCRIPTURE AS A TEXT OF TERROR: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SESSIONS
Our LGBTQ community continues to be clobbered with biblical texts used to either scare us straight, or terrorize our everyday existence.
GUEST OPINION: COLORADO CAKE WALK
While the justices did not blatantly grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans, I, like so many in our community, was hoping the case would render once and for all a cease-and-desist order, thus resolving the God-versus-gay rights dispute for those who want to codify discrimination against us under the guise of religious freedom.
WHERE IS THE PRIDE?
A survey of divisions and achievements since the troubled celebrations of last year
OPEN WOUNDS: ANOTHER BLACK HARVARD MAN ARRESTED
As can be seen in a video that one witness submitted to police, officers repeatedly punched Ohene in his torso. A subsequent CPD report depicts Ohene as being so wildly combative that three cops from Cambridge plus a transit officer were needed to restrain him and to place the perp in handcuffs in order to “avoid further injury to himself.”
MLK’S ASSASSINATION REMINDS NATION OF UNADDRESSED GUN VIOLENCE
“By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.”
REVISITING FREDERICK DOUGLASS
If Spicer was telling the truth last year, and the Trump administration wants to highlight Douglass’s invaluable contribution to American history, they should start with his historic 1852 speech.
PIMPING KING
Distinguishing between commercializing and communicating MLK’s message
CAMBRIDGE NEEDS A KING
Our job in keeping King’s dream alive is to be part of a participatory government—local and national—that is feverishly working to dismantle all existing discriminatory laws and practices that truncate full participation of its citizens in the fight to advance democracy.
HERE’S THAT HISTORY LESSON JOHN KELLY NEEDS
Kelly’s remark is also a false equivalence. And in the most odious way, because it minimizes the moral turpitude of the Confederacy’s dogged and “by any means necessary” drive to make chattel slavery endure as a central pillar to their Southern way of life.
