The dictionary definition of chic reads: smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner . That's a dead-on target descr...

In the last two months we've had transgender characters appear on two ABC network shows. One of them is on ABC's flagship soap All M...

When I first moved to Kentucky I began to hear the stories from Dawn and other Lexingtonians about their legendary transgender resident &#...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-trans women who have qualities that I admire Roberta Angela Dee ...

According to the 2001 Canadian Census, there are 593,335 people who identify as Black and of that number 70,000 also claim European ancestry...

TransGriot Note: This one started as a response in a Think Progress blog thread discussing Tom Tancredo's (R-CO) disengenuos desire to a...

On February 12, 1900, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” also known as the Negro National Anthem and the Negro National Hymn was sung publicly for...

TransGriot Note:photo is of the late Amanda Milan, who died in June 2000 after having her throat slashed at the NY Port Authority terminal...

photo-IFGE's Denise LeClair, me and Phyllis Frye at the 2006 IFGE Convention in Philadelphia. Another installment in my ongoing series o...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-trans women who have qualities that I admire. As Lorrainne puts ...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-trans women who have qualities that I admire. As a child who gre...

By Denise Watson Batts, The Virginian-Pilot © February 6, 2007 WHEW, A WHOLE 10 minutes on the phone with Tavis Smiley. That's a coup co...

Saturday, March 10 promises to be a hot time at the historic Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, PA when the National Black Justice Co...

Nice guys do finish first. Congratulations to Tony Dungy for officially becoming the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bow...

photo-Justina Williams From the November 1, 1979 Jet Magazine article written by D. Michael Cheers. Deep thanks to Roberta Black for sca...

photo-slain Washington DC transgender teens Ukea Davis (left) and Stephanie Thomas Kim, 12, has always fought a male identity; she began ho...

photo-America Ferrera as Betty Suarez I started watching Ugly Betty when I was channel surfing one Thursday night and happene to see Vanessa...

Honoring Black History Month Copyright 2007, THE LETTER “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspira...

Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month Happy Black History Month! February is when we take the time to shine the spotlight on...