Sue Landers to Step Down as Executive Director of Lambda Literary
By David T. Valentin After three years as executive director for Lambda Literary, Sue Landers will be stepping down from her role on...
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Today is the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment But Only White Women Got the Right to Vote
By Lori Perkins Most of us were taught about the suffragettes who fought for the right for women to vote, but most of us didn’t get the...
Maya Angelou Barbie for Black History Month
By Lori Perkins February is Black History Month and it’s also this weird P.R. time of year where strange products are pitched with...
The Caren Act Passes in San Francisco
By David T. Valentin A new law in San Francisco – the Caren Act – seeks to eliminate emergency calls motived by discrimination. The Caren...
John Boyega Speaks Out Against Disney’s Failure to Develop His Star Wars Character
Image taken from John Boyega's Instagram “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything....
Guest Post: HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE PEOPLE IN THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH OF STATEN ISLAND
Gillian Rose is a recent Manhattan College graduate who lives in Staten Island. Marquis Pickering Staten Island has been the butt of many...
54 Years After Southern Library Refused Library Card to Black Teens, An Apology
These times we’re living in are really hard, and there are only so many kitten and puppy videos I can watch to lift my sprits. So, it was...
Accurate Representation Matters
In the wake of George Floyd’s death, protests erupted over the world and opened up a slew of conversations about social justice. One such...
Disney to Change Splash Mountain in light of Anti-Racism Movements
On Thursday, June 25th, Disney announced that the ever-popular ride Splash Mountain would be re-imagined due to its ties to the banned,...
Imagine Getting Married in the Midst of a Black Lives Matter Protest
Photo's from Linda McQueen Bazaar magazine No one can deny that we are living through turbulent times, so it is amazing and confounding...
Juneteenth Should be a National Holiday
I learned about Juneteenth from Ralph Ellison, the author of what I consider to be the greatest literary novel of the 20th century,...
Baking to Combat the Stresses of the Pandemic And Raise Money for Black Lives Matter
As we enter the third month of the Coronavirus Pandemic, it has become more difficult to find ways to pass our time. While many of us...
The Impact of Social Media on the Black Lives Matter Movement for Younger Generations
Over the past two weeks, and now currently entering the third week, people all over the United States and other countries have been...
Getting to Work: Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement as a Queer Person
After the death of George Floyd by the hands of police brutality and the video of his death circulating around media, a series of...
Romance Writers of America Addresses the Elephant in the Room
As more and more companies and publishing-related businesses began to make statements in support of the national Black Lives Matters...
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