photos-Crystal Smith hustling for ball, Comets coach Karleen Thompson, Tina Thompson, Michelle Snow and Sheryl Swoopes. One thing about me t...

Rapid scientific progress is being made in terms of mapping human DNA thanks to the Human Genome Project . It has unlocked the secrets of wh...

As I mentioned last month I'm a pageant fanatic. My love for them also extends to an event that was 'must see TV' when I was gro...

Trans Griot Note: photo-Anna Julia Cooper One of the things I'm most cognizant of, whether I'm writing my column, posting on this ...

Blackamewricaweb.com in honor of Black Music Month has been doing an exclusive series of articles on the twenty people who changed Black mus...

One of the things that has really irritated me over the last decade is the emergence of the group of conservative Black sellout megachurch m...

black and white photo of Amanda and Nicole by Brian Lantelme . Today is the seventh anniversary of the brutal killing of Amanda Milan. In th...

Dear Fellow African-Americans, As one of your transgender cousins who shares your ethnic heritage I am moved to ask this question. What the ...

Happy Juneteenth TransGriot readers! So what the heck is Juneteenth? Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Tex...

I've mentioned the fact that I own an extensive music CD collection. The same is true of my ever expanding DVD collection. It runs the g...

UCLA released their 2007-2008 basketball schedule and I was disappointed to learn that UH was not on it. There has been a major push from U...

During the drive back from Washington DC to Louisville in the aftermath of our recent lobby days, I was doing some thinking after I finished...

By John Wright of the Dallas Voice May 11, 2007 From a 6-year-old kindergartner in Florida who wears dresses to school to a 17-year-old seni...

I was introduced to this talented artist by one of the members on my Transistahs-Transbrothas group. Tia had adopted Elisabeth's song ...

One staple of Black music over the decades has been the slammin' instrumental tracks that populated many R&B records over the 60'...

This is a post I wrote for Angelica's blog ; -------------------------------------------------------------- Back in 1979 an African-Amer...