All posts tagged "black"
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Attacking Indifference
Washington residents, government agencies and community groups rallied at an Oct. 24 town hall to sound an alarm about problems facing ''black LGBTQI youth'' in...
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Coverboy: Jason
Jason, 24, has a strong relationship with God, but is hesitant about church. He used to love it, even participating as a pastor's assistant. Then...
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Tea Time
Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...
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NBJC Takes the Hill
Following on an annual outing begun last year, the National Black Justice Coalition will be returning to Capitol Hill next year for ''Out on the...
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NAACP Joins Maryland Marriage Fight
The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has become the latest organization to join the umbrella organization Marylanders...
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Honoring the Dream (UPDATED)
When the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is dedicated Sunday, Aug. 28, it will certainly be a national event, if not one that...
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Video Recap: NAACP tackles black & gay tensions at national convention [video]
A week ago, the NAACP held a groundbreaking discussion about LGBT issues in Los Angeles for its 102nd Convention. The panel was hosted by CNN’s...
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Coverboy: London
London is new to the nation's capital. The 28-year-old native of New Orleans moved to D.C. from Detroit two months ago to consider a job...
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Coverboy AJ
Looking at his busy schedule, AJ no longer has downtime. He's been modeling since he was 16, and these days, when he gets a free...
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History of Pride
Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...
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All of Us
There are different ways to mark the anniversaries of Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks formed the organization in 1985....
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Voice of America
Although known by many Americans for her portrayal as Dr. Nancy McNally, the national security advisor on NBC's The West Wing, or as Gloria Akalitus,...
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It Takes a Village
It would be very easy to talk about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's rise with the same kind of mythic spin as his ''Brother/Sister'' trilogy. His...
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The DC LGBT Homeless Youth Crisis [video]
In the past few months, Washington D.C. has seen a rise in the number homeless LGBT youth. Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart talks with several locals...
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Man in the Middle
As a young boy in New Jersey, just about yay-tall, Jonathan Capehart knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: a television...
