On this date 30 years ago I was in front of the TV one hot summer night watching the Miss Universe Pageant. Little did I know that I was wa...

TransGriot Note: Studio 13 was a legendary club back home that catered to the Black gay community for two decades. It's where I honed my...

sung to the tune of 'You Can Call Me Crazy' by Guy When Bill was runnin' thangs America was all right Bush steals two elections ...

An MKR Poem Faith brought us through the Middle Passage Helped us survive slavery It emboldened us to take out Jim Crow And build community ...

I am a movie junkie. One of my simple pleasures is to roll over to my favorite multiplex, buy myself a large tub of buttered popcorn, sit in...

Great Britain's Lewis Hamilton is making a lot of history in his rookie season as a Formula One race car driver. He is the first Black d...

On July 6, 1957 legendary tennis pioneer Althea Gibson became the first African-American athlete to win Wimbledon. 50 years to the day of Gi...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-transgender women who have qualities that I admire. I was introd...

Yesterday was the 4th of July. My attitude towards it sometimes mirrors the line in the 'Tuskegee Airmen' movie. 'How do I feel ...

One of the things that annoys me about the transgender community is the conclusion jump. It's a tendency to take a snippet of informatio...

Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-transgender women who have qualities that I admire. Back in 1974...

On the night of April 9, 1974 I was an 11 year old watching with hopeful anticipation NBC's live telecasr of the LA Dodgers-Atlanta Brav...

I read a post on Pam's House Blend this morning about a Blog Rating tool that gives a blog a rating similar to the movie classification...

Dear African-American Transelders, I hope and pray your golden years find you in excellent health, a secure life situation, and satisfied wi...

Why “Gender Identity’ Is Necessary In ENDA Copyright 2007, THE LETTER Any day now Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) will be introducing his vers...

Friday, June 29, 2007 By: Associated Press and BlackAmericaWeb.com WASHINGTON (AP) A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential c...