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Roland S. Martin
Enough!
I’m sick and tired of black folks coming up with the most asinine, silly, nonsensical, pathetic, grossly unintelligent and shameful defenses of us using the N-word.
Ending in “A” isn’t the same as “ER.” Please, shut up.
Calling the N-word a term of endearment between African-Americans is something we have gotten used to. OK, gotcha. And for years we have gotten used to eating everything fried, but that don’t mean we can ignore the effects on our heart and cholesterol.
People in the media and academia are mostly leftists hellbent on growing government and controlling our lives. Black people, their politicians and civil rights organizations have become unwitting accomplices. The leftist pretense of concern for the well-being of black people confers upon them an aura of moral superiority and, as such, gives more credibility to their calls for increasing government control over our lives.
Ordinary black people have been sold on the importance of electing blac
United States Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the Human Rights Campaign's 13th annual Greater New York Gala in the Manhattan borough of New York, February 8, 2014. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)
The Justice policy shift applies to legally married same-sex couples across the federal criminal justice system and in federal civil courts, even in states that do not recognize gay marriage.
The Justice Department issued a policy memorandum Monday instructing all department employees to affor
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The cultural highlight of the Grammys would certainly be Queen Latifah overseeing a mass marriage ceremony.
It was not solely a gay marriage ceremony, but the ceremony was during the gay marriage anthem “Same Love,” so the intent and focus was clear. There were outward differences among the couples on the floor—different races, different gender combinations, etc.—but the central message of the moment was that the “sameness” is in the love—hence the song, “Same Love.”
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon waves as he arrives at the Kamuzu International Airport in the Malawi capital Lilongwe May 29, 2010, on his mission to pursuade Malawi’s president to take a stand on Malawi homosexuals who were imprisoned for 14 years. (Photo: Reuters/Eldson Chagara)
UN AIDS taskforce and human rights groups will launch a court battle against Malawi’s laws criminalising homosexuality in a rare challenge to rising anti-gay legislation in Africa.
The legislation has strained re
Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, talk to the media on Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (KATU photo)
The owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa said a state ruling has done nothing to change their religious beliefs.
"We still stand by what we believe from the beginning," Aaron Klein told KATU.
On Friday, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries ruled that the Gresham bakeryviolated the civil rights of a same-sex couple when it denied them service on Jan.17, 2013.
"I'm not sure
Phillis Wheatley’s life would make for a fairly depressing TV miniseries, but her inner strength and contributions to African American literature shouldn’t be overlooked.
I can imagine the discussion in the CBS conference room: “February sweeps … Black History Month … Clinton allegations … let’s do a miniseries on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings!” Not that there isn’t a story to be told, or that the founding Fathers should be exempt from investigation. It’s just that, as far as I can te
Asenath Andrews is interviewed at the Women in the World summit in New York, 2012. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
These women have built social networks, developed schools, and designed energy-generating soccer balls. What global issues are these Mothers of Invention tackling next?
When it comes to ingenuity, these women have a motherlode.
What’s a mother of invention? Answer, a woman who sees a social problem and decides to use her own ingenuity and dynamism to try and fix it—and then was lucky enough t
 Mountain States Conference will be the first conference in Mennonite Church USA to license an openly gay pastor.
Theda Good will be licensed for her role as pastor of nurture and fellowship at First Mennonite Church of Denver on Feb. 2.
Good, who is in a committed relationship with another woman, joined First Mennonite's staff in August 2012.
She has a master of divinity degree with a concentration in spiritual formation/direction from Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Va.
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A few years ago, I couldn't imagine a network disregarding GLAAD's recommendations
Phil v. The Gays. With which will we side? Or rather, against which will we side? This is the question that society demands we answer. Are we anti-Phil or anti-gay or anti-GLAAD or anti-A&E or anti- ... ?
Perhaps no other word sums up the Duck Dynasty fiasco as aptly as the word "anti."
Whenever I hear that someone is anti-this or that, I immediately think of the old quip about MADD - are there any mothers for dr
''Duck Dynasty'' patriarch Phil Robertson will return to work on A&E's reality show despite his comments about gay immorality, the channel said Friday, reversing its decision to suspend him after facing a boycott backlash.
In a statement Friday, A&E said it was bringing Robertson back after discussions with his Louisiana family featured in the hit reality series and ''numerous advocacy groups.''
Last week, the channel had put Robertson on what it called an indefinite ''hiatus'' because of hi
The first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention supports Phil Robertson's biblical views on homosexuality but disputes the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch's memory of race relations before the Civil Rights movement.
This 2012 photo released by A&E shows, from left, Phil Robertson, Jase Robertson, Si Robertson and Willie Robertson from the A&E series, "Duck Dynasty." (AP Photo/A&E, Zach Dilgard)
In a GQ magazine interview, Robertson said that in his Louisiana youth he picked cotton wit
 Isaac Troyo (L) and his partner Jed Mecham get married at the Salt Lake County Government Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 23, 2013. (REUTERS/JIM URQUHART)
Utah's attorney general instructed county clerks on Tuesday to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples requesting them, as ordered by the federal judge who overturned a state ban on same-sex weddings, or risk being held in contempt of court.
The admonishment from Attorney General Sean Reyes' office came shortly befor
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 Phil Robertson has spoken out for the first time since his comments in a magazine interview went public and refused to go back on his controversial remarks, saying: 'I will not give or back off from my path.'United: Phil Robertson (center), patriarch of the Duck Dynasty family, leaves church in Louisiana with his family today
The Duck Dynasty patriarch led a small Bible study group in his home town church in West Monroe, Louisiana on Sunday, granting MailOnline exclusive access.
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| Phil Robertson has spoken out for the first time since his comments in a magazine interview went public and refused to go back on his controversial remarks, saying: 'I will not give or back off from my path.' United: Phil Robertson (center), patriarch of the Duck Dynasty family, leaves church in Louisiana with his family today
The Duck Dynasty patriarch led a small Bible study group in his home town church in West Monroe, Louisiana on Sunday, granting MailOnline exclusive access.
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A Pennsylvania pastor who was suspended for performing the same-sex marriage of his son refused to give up his credentials Monday and vowed to try to remain in the Methodist Church as an advocate for gay equality.
Matt Rourke/AP - The Rev. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist clergyman suspended by the church for performing his son's same-sex wedding, plans to defy an order to surrender his credentials.
A church jury last month suspended the Rev. Frank Schaefer for 30 days and told him to rep
Thirty-five years after lifting a ban on blacks entering the priesthood, the Mormon church has offered an explanation for a practice that was in place for more than 100 years, saying it was rooted in the racism of the times.A church-produced essay, "Race and the Priesthood," ties the ban to an 1852 speech by Brigham Young, the faith's second president, who led the church to Utah, and distances the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the policy.
"The justifications for res
In the 1960s, African-American civil rights leaders led this country out of institutionalized discrimination in social and political realms. During this movement, millionaires were created as a result of society's segregation and injustice. By creating our own markets that cater to African-American consumers -- sometimes the result of savvy, often the result of lack of choice -- black businesses grew and created jobs, wealth and prosperous, sustainable communities like Chatham.At the Chatham B
