The Best Black Comedy You’re Not Watching
by Akiba Solomon on May 9 2011, 9:18AM
“The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and Friends” is must-see (Web) TV. Here’s why.
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Rep. Chris Smith: Fetuses Are the ‘Most Persecuted Minority In the World’
by Akiba Solomon on May 4 2011, 4:55PM
The latest race-baiting from the anti-abortion movement. This one’s a doozy.
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The Radical Anti-Choice Bill We Can’t Afford to Ignore
by Akiba Solomon on May 3 2011, 3:42PM
H.R. 3 is set to hit the House floor tomorrow. Tell your Congress member to vote no.
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I Didn’t Watch the Royal Wedding, But It Still Won’t Go Away
by Akiba Solomon on April 29 2011, 12:32PM
If we’re talking royal fantasies, I’d choose Prince Akeem over Prince William any day.
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It’s Time to Talk to Employers About Domestic Workers’ Rights
by Akiba Solomon on April 27 2011, 9:00AM
As the movement for domestic workers’ rights spreads across the country, progressive employers will need a heads up that speaks to their consciences—and their pockets.
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Crystal Gail Mangum Isn’t Innocent, But She’s a Victim Just the Same
by Akiba Solomon on April 20 2011, 1:17PM
The woman who wrongly accused Duke lacrosse team members of rape was just indicted for murdering her boyfriend. I’m not surprised.
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Three Hip-Hop Scholars Talk About Combatting Homophobia
by Akiba Solomon on April 19 2011, 10:35AM
DJ Davey D., William Jelani Cobb and Anyabwile Love use their history classes to tackle one of the most explosive issues in hip-hop culture.
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On Brooke-Lynn Pinklady and the Importance of Self-Definition
by Akiba Solomon on April 13 2011, 11:07AM
Brooke-Lynn Pinklady—the young man (yes, man) arrested with DJ Mister Cee—speaks out. Watch and listen.
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On DJ Mister Cee, Malcolm X and Online Homophobia
by Akiba Solomon on April 11 2011, 10:31AM
How should we deal with the kinds of comments littering Mister Cee and Malcolm X threads?
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Update: Resistance to Race-Baiting Chicago Billboard
by Akiba Solomon on April 4 2011, 8:57AM
More on the folks behind the racist danger womb billboards and a little something about Chicago’s reaction
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Does Anti-Abortion Option Line Withhold Vital Health Information?
by Akiba Solomon on April 1 2011, 11:08AM
Under the handle “afraid,” Gender Matters chatted with volunteers from anti-abortion Option Line and sexual health care provider Planned Parenthood. The results are in!
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Another Day, Another Race-Baiting Abortion Billboard
by Akiba Solomon on March 29 2011, 10:36AM
Life Always, the anti-abortion group that set off a firestorm in New York City with their black danger-womb billboard, are putting up a new one Chicago’s South Side—featuring President Obama.
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Crisis Pregnancy Centers: One More Weapon Against Women of Color
by Akiba Solomon on March 28 2011, 9:34AM
Six big players to mind as the right’s effort to target women of color in the anti-abortion movement builds.
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Chris Brown Needs More Therapy and Less F.A.M.E.
by Akiba Solomon on March 23 2011, 12:05PM
The singing and dancing machine uses art to escape the domestic violence he’s seen and committed. That’s just not enough.
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White, Rich Gay Couples More Acceptable than Single Moms
by Akiba Solomon on March 21 2011, 12:49PM
A strange little MSNBC story shows how race and class blindness can complicate good news about changing attitudes.
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After Cleveland, Texas: Eight Ways Black Men Can Fight Rape
by Akiba Solomon on March 17 2011, 3:17PM
Anti-rape activist Dr. R’Leureux Lewis gives black men simple (and not-so-simple) ways to interrupt rape culture—and break down the negative stereotypes that help fuel it.
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The Gang Rape of a Latina 6th Grader, and a Horrific Community Response
by Akiba Solomon on March 14 2011, 2:48PM
Eighteen black boys and men are accused of gang-raping an 11-year-old Latina in this small East Texas town. What now?
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Rep. Chris Smith and a Little International Women’s Day Irony
by Akiba Solomon on March 8 2011, 4:20PM
Rep. Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who tried to narrow federal funding for abortions in the case of rape, is all for women’s rights—in China.
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Ivory Coast Aftermath: The People, Not the President(s) Come First
by Akiba Solomon on March 7 2011, 1:36PM
In the Ivory Coast’s post-election turmoil, seven women at an all-women’s rally are shot down. Unacceptable.
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“I Had to Accept That I Could Be Sexually Assaulted on the Job”
by Akiba Solomon on March 3 2011, 3:58PM
Five lessons in self-protection from an independent female journalist who covered rape in Haiti’s post-quake tent camps
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