My mother, the matriarch of the family, will preside over a dinner table with my sister and me, my partner, our children and the gay baby daddy. Love is love and our family is the richer for it. But many black LGBT folks aren’t as fortunate as I am.

Bill T. Jones puts Fela the legend center stage, but Fela the man stays out of the limelight.

Forget the pilgrims. What's my Southern family going to say when I skip the Turkey this Thanksgiving?

It's not that the Thanksgiving holiday bugs me, but mushy bread crumbs in an empty carcass isn't my idea of a celebration.

The murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis highlights a disturbing and growing trend in the U.S.: the trafficking of young girls into sexual slavery.

Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.

During the Bush administration, 13,999 racial discrimination cases were swept under the rug at the Agriculture Department. What will Secretary Tom Vilsack do about it?

Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.

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Lee Daniels' film? Brilliant. The Oprah-fied pitch? Not so much.