Colorlines‘ Akiba Solomon profiles a pro-life effort that she says is fueled mostly by suburban white evangelicals and conservative black men. In some ways, Care Net’s Kansas City operation is neither unique nor new. For nearly 20 years, the evangelical anti-abortion movement has used standalone crisis pregnancy centers to dissuade girls and women from ending…

Colorlines‘ Akiba Solomon says that journalists need to improve their approach, starting with the language they use when doing their jobs. Watching professional broadcast journalists attempt to compete with social media hobbyists for any nugget of information during last week’s manhunt for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, many us felt a familiar dread. We…

If you’re part of the American community that is regularly stopped and frisked, perhaps carrying a gun isn’t the best idea — even if it is supposed to protect you from lurking rapists, writes Akiba Solomon at Colorlines. First, writer, activist and political strategist Zerlina Maxwell appeared on Sean Hannity’s very fine, extremely objective FOX…

Though Roe v. Wade was handed down long before journalist Akiba Solomon was born, the controversial case affected her personally, she writes in Dissent magazine. Solomon served as a sex educator and a volunteer at a Planned Parenthood-affiliate group during her teens, and that experience coupled with her mother’s personal opinion on the women’s rights issue…

Writing at ColorLines, Akiba Solomon interviews Yaba Blay, a contributing producer of CNN’s “Who Is Black in America?” segment about the lingering pain of the “one drop” rule, which Blay says is racist but represents how blacks are defined. Keep the concept of privilege-clinging in the back of your mind as you check out the work and…

Colorlines‘ Akiba Solomon argues that adultery is nothing compared to the troubling statistics that led to the Air Force’s new “wingman policy.” Salacious details of Gen. David Petraus’s adulterous relationship with biographer Paula Broadwell — and all of the attendant sexist framing — have eclipsed a much more important military story Yesterday, the Air Force…

With Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment and Richard Mourdock’s discussion of what God may have “intended,” women became targets during the 2012 election cycle. Colorlines columnist Akiba Solomon lined up the lessons she’s learned during the last year or two in politics, and here’s what she found. Here are my lessons: 1. The Republican-led war on…

Relating her childhood experience of meeting Nina Simone, Colorlines blogger Akiba Solomon issues a strong rebuke to Hollywood for perpetuating color-struck attitudes by casting the light-skinned Zoe Saldana to portray the dark-skinned diva in an upcoming biopic. … Given the rich, sharply political source material of Simone’s songs, performances and writings, I think it’s appropriate for…

From Social Security to abortion, political issues should be viewed without religious prejudice, argues Colorlines columnist Akiba Solomon. Why, then, she asks, was the topic of abortion brought up at Thursday’s vice presidential debate through the lens of the Catholic religious beliefs of Vice President Joe Biden and candidate Paul Ryan? I don’t expect any…