Congratulations to Shilah Phillips who made a little Black history of her own on July 8, 2006. She became the first African-American to win...

TransGriot Note: Photo is of Sen. Barack Obama and his statuesque 5'11" wife Michelle.  (List has been updated as of August 5, 202...

Back in 2000 when GLAAD was crowing about the TV show Ally McBeal having a transgender character, I pointed out the Edith Stokes character...

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 By: Michael H. Cottman from BlackAmericaWeb.com "We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and un...

photo-Anna leaving the Supreme Court Wednesday, February 21, 2007 By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com Maybe it's out of respect ...

The 2005 Bunch Club Gala attendees seven and a half months before Katrina struck. Photo by Lloyd Dennis The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS C...

photo-the start of the Zulu parade Tuesday, February 20, 2007 By Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com When the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Clu...

Conservatism: n, The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a con...

I used to joke back when Destiny's Child was the hottest group going that they were the Supremes 2K version. Not long after that Beyonce...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-trans women who have qualities that I admire. I first became awa...

photo-Grace Park as Sharon 'Athena' Agathon There was a recent Battlestar Galactica episode in which Sharon and her husband Helo wer...

photo-model Toccara Jones By Robin Givhan Friday, February 16, 2007; C02 The voluptuous actress Jennifer Hudson wears a burgundy satin dress...

Local activist Tracee McDaniel speaks her truth in an attempt to spark change By Ryan Lee Friday, February 09, 2007 From the Southern Voice ...

Tim Hardaway's anti-gay comments made me recall a conversation I had with my father when I was a teen. He stated that he had more respe...

TransGriot Note: photo of the painting 'In The Garden' by Keith Mallett Happy Valentine's Day everybody! Like most people I'...

Yesterday Elizabeth (one of my TransGriot guest colmunists) posted a link from You Tube of a video from Chicago transwoman Angelica Love Ro...

When   Kim Coco Iwamoto was growing up in Hawaii,  her parents stressed that education was the key to achieving her goals.  After graduati...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - (AP) Democrat Barack Obama declared himself a candidate Saturday for the White House in 2008, evoking Abraham Lincoln...

TransGriot Note: photo is of former MP Jean Augustine, who pushed the motion establishing Black History Month in Canada. Black History Month...

Almost ten years before that fateful December 1, 1955 day that Rosa Parks sat down on a Montgomery, AL bus that was headed home and jump sta...