Standing on the top step of the Olympic medal platform with a gold medal around your neck while hearing your country's national anthem b...

The AKA's aren't the only historic African-American organization holding a convention this week. The 99th NAACP Convention is being...

The oldest African-American sorority is about to gain a new member. In an announcement made Monday during this week's Boule running th...

TransGriot Note: it's been a while since I composed a song rewrite for your pleasure. There was also a neat picture I found of an elde...

As if Faux News putrid crap , the Tennessee GOP and various right-wing sites hatin' on the Obamas wasn't bad enough, now comes word...

Four Latinas made the five finalists at Miss Universe 2008 along with Miss Russia. Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza was crowned Miss Universe ...

When my Houston homegirl became the sixth sistah to win Miss USA back in April, and she was a Cougar alum to boot, I already liked 26 year ...

Last Sunday I sat down with Ethan St. Pierre and talked about a few issues in the transgender community on his podcast. He shot me an e-mai...

TransGriot note: Rev. Louis Coleman passed away on July 4. He was as Betty Baye's column mentioned, a first responder to injustice here...

Beginning yesterday and continuing through next Friday, the predominant fashion color for more than 20,000 sisters around Washington DC will...

I have much love and respect for Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. I was an alternate Jackson delegate for my precinct during his 1984 run for preside...

If Sen. Barack Obama eventually becomes our president, if I were his campaign staff, one of the people I'd definitely be express mailing...

TransGriot Note: I mentioned that Dawn spent the last few days of her vacation in San Jose, CA fencing in the US Summer Nationals tourney ...

I mentioned in a post back in May that the 2008 Olympic draw to set the pools for the upcoming Olympic basketball competition were held by ...

I did a post in honor of the Fourth of July called National Anthems with Soul . I put together a short list of great African-American perfo...

This started out as a journal entry and morphed into a prayerful reflection on why it is that some black people celebrate the Fourth of July...

While on a Blue Bell ice cream run I happened to see at the checkout counter the August 2008 issue of EBONY magazine. The EBONY editors dec...

One of the things that bothers me from time to time is the fact that I didn't get to experience growing up female. Sometimes it's tr...

I received word that TransGriot is now officially a member of the AfroSpear! What's the AfroSpear you ask? As Electronic Villager wrot...

In a few hours I'll have to get up early and take a vacationing Dawn to the airport. She's catching an 8 AM EDT flight to San Jose, ...