It's a relic from America's past: poor, lonely Mayella Ewell, illiterate and abused by her father, invents a chore to lure a handsome black man...
That I've had a lot of experience of casual racism doesn't come as much of a surprise given my rural Southern background. I grew up...
So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...
We are the parents of a transgender child, Jackie. And we decided to tell our family's story on television, in the April broadcast of the...
Vacations are supposed to be a time to relax, recharge or let loose. A holiday trek may also be highly educational. Certainly, that was the...
One philosophy that I'm lucky enough to share with all my co-workers at Metro Weekly is the idea that the work we do is more...
If you think we live in a post-racial society, look at the flood of hateful comments found by blogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs...
It's with some glee that I've read reports of women — angered by lawmakers pushing transvaginal probes and doctor-narrated ultrasounds prior to abortions, as well...
When Rick Santorum talks of imposing his idea of God's Plan on his fellow citizens; when Rush Limbaugh calls a law student a ''slut'' and...
In the days leading up to Rick Santorum's Southern twofer of Alabama and Mississippi, there was a minor contretemps among some pundits about the polling...
There are few things in life as insulting as an insincere apology for an insult. We know this because it is one of life's guarantees...
A few weeks ago I was invited to sit down with the cast of American University's Bare, The Musical, and discuss my life as a...
Whether you breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night when Rick Santorum lost in Michigan or a sigh of disappointment that he didn't take out...
The dirty secret about bullying is that it is more popular than most of us care to admit. Many adults believe that a bullying victim...
It must've been the summer of 1979, because I remember specifically that people were talking about American Airlines Flight 191. The ill-fated DC-10 lost one...