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  • Praise for HRC's Donna Payne

    By on April 12, 2012

    Donna Payne, the D.C.-based associate director of diversity for the Human Rights Campaign, as well as a founding board member of the National Black Justice...

  • Step by Step

    By on September 30, 2010

    This weekend, Washingtonians will walk to fight HIV/AIDS. And then they'll march for justice. The same morning as the 24th annual AIDS Walk, Saturday, Oct....

  • ''My Rock, My Life, My Love''

    By on March 9, 2010

    ”There are no spectators here today,” Rev. David K. North, pastor of Holy Redeemer Metropolitan Community Church in College Park, said. ”All of us have...

  • Incoming Ally

    By on October 14, 2009

    Sharon J. Lettman has plenty to say. And as the newly appointed executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), Lettman, who is straight,...

  • Poison Pews

    By on April 1, 2009

    African-American leaders, students and activists gathered for nearly two hours inside Howard University's Howard Thurman Chapel in Northeast D.C. recently to discuss homophobia in African-American...

  • Homefront

    By on January 4, 2006

    Living Check to Check IN ONE OF THE MOST striking moments of 2005, Whitman-Walker Clinic announced in May that it would be unable to meet...

  • Marching On

    By on October 19, 2005

    Washington, D.C., is no stranger to mass gatherings of people seeking rights, justice, or just a chance to be heard. Saturday, Oct. 15, was one...

  • Reaching the Summit

    By on September 21, 2005

    In December 2003, a handful of leaders from the GLBT African-American community banded together to challenge support from African American religious and civil rights leaders...

  • Family Affair

    By on July 20, 2005

    The big picture is a family portrait. It's a picture of the African-American community coming together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man...

  • Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction

    By on November 17, 2004

    Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...

  • Setting the Course

    By on September 15, 2004

    Boston may have gotten the Democrats, and New York the Republicans, but Washington hosted a major political conference of its own last weekend as the...