Roughly 20 years ago, Cornel West — in his best-selling book Race Matters — argued that “it is virtually impossible to talk candidly about race without talking about sex.” So it remains today: When we chatter about sex, race is always already on the table. At the center of the Bishop Eddie Long story is…

In the New York Times, Josef Sorett says that although black churches and black people have a reputation for being anti-gay, these organizations and individuals are changing. Black churches and black people, in general, continue to be portrayed as especially anti-gay, but we should remember that these organizations and individuals are not static. First, in…