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Withers: North Carolina NAACP comes out against amendment

James Withers — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:32:43 +0000

The NAACP might not have an official position on same sex marriage, but it knows a bad idea. The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has come out against the anti-same sex marriage amendment(...)

Withers: NAACP has its first LGBT session

James Withers — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:30:31 +0000

There used to be a time when the NAACP was the young turk of the black freedom movement. Now it comes off as musty and out of step, as if its glorious history blinded it to the present.

In a(...)

New NAACP seeing more gay, diverse chapter leaders

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:00:09 +0000

(Worcester, Mass.) The NAACP’s newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside(...)

Monday Watercooler: The President’s Day edition

James Withers — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:43:25 +0000

Libyan strongman turning guns on the people. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has unleashed his army on protesters. When a dictator decides its time to use helicopters and/or jets against people in(...)

Withers: NAACP head talks at NYC gay center

James Withers — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:50:42 +0000

When Ben Jealous, the head of the NAACP, walked to the podium he got a standing ovation. Approximately an hour later, the crowd stood up again. Jealous’ speech was short on details, nor was it(...)

Monday Watercooler: Rourke wants to bring the Thomas story to the big screen

James Withers — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:09:07 +0000

Sen. Vitter doesn’t think Maddow is a real woman. Going to give David Vitter points in the gall category. The senator from Louisiana, who got caught in some prostitute affair mess, has to(...)

Friday Watercooler: RuPaul Rolemodel and South African Lesbian Rape

rayhunt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:50:20 +0000

• Rupaul is MY role model. Three teachers in a Los Angeles have been suspended and are under investigation in a controversy surrounding the schools Black History Month celebration. At the end(...)

Withers: A week of race

James Withers — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:03:01 +0000

This has been a week of racial matters. The Republicans, a political organization whose recent racial deeds would make Frederick Douglass swell with pride, parsed, parsed, and parsed some more(...)

Withers: Hate never beats hate

James Withers — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:04:21 +0000

Today is an easy post. If the speechifying of Carrie Prejean makes your head explode calling her a female dog is bad form (yes Ms. Hilton, I’m looking at you). Let’s say the political dirty(...)

Withers: 10 random thoughts

James Withers — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:08:48 +0000

I’ve been searching for hours to find something to ruminate about, and nothing is coming to me. So here is a list of 10 unrelated thoughts, some serious others not so much. This could be a(...)