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A Weekend of HATE and PAIN passes (a diary of images)

It's been a rough last few days.

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Obama’s Gay Problem

I am posting early, due to the uproar. It is all over the blogosphere. All of the major blogs are discussing the decision of Barack Obama to tour with the reformed homosexual gospel singer Donnie...

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Hillary, should Obama have attended a white church?

Hillary Clinton, lest we forget, is the wife of the man who wore with pride the appellation given to him by Toni Morrison: the first Black President.  Black religious leaders such as Obama's former...

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Hillary Clinton and the Burning Down of the Black Church

During the Civil Rights era churches were burned and firebombed in order to intimidate African-Americans. Everyone remembers the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing when, in 1963, four black girls were...

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Over the Top Footage of Anti-Gay Rally in DC

My girlfriend and I went to an anti-gay rally in DC on Sunday. She captured this footage.

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Religion 101 For Gay Rights Advocates

Religious beliefs are always at the very core of the debate over LGBT rights. Marriage equality is the issue that touches them most directly. The efforts of NOM. the National Organization for Marriage,...

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Black Kos, Week In Review

Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors by Black Kos Editor, Sephius1Otis Boykin proves that, while education is important, it is not the only thing that defines your future. Boykin was...

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The Right's Urge to Kick Down: Doing Unto Others as Has Been Done Unto You

In "More on the O'Reilly/Stewart Brouhaha: The Right-Wing Urge to Kick Down," I offered one explanation of how non-rich white people can get motivated to kick down on those below them (especially...

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What was the conservative response the last time black churches in the South...

Mourner gather flowers for the Charleston shooting victims, June 18, 2015 The mass shooting of nine parishioners at a black church in South Carolina by a white supremacist has been very distressing....

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A coalition of U.S. Muslim groups are fundraising to rebuild burned black...

Rising from the ashes stronger than before A coalition of Muslim groups have begun a LaunchGood page to get funds in order to help rebuild the black churches recently burned down. A note on the site...

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Where are the "Oathkeepers" now?

Remember how, during the demonstrations in Ferguson, MO, a gang of armed, pot-bellied "Oathkeepers" descended on the town to "assist the cops?" The ones I remember were "guarding" a CVS pharmacy that...

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White supremacists plot to bomb and shoot up black churches. Again.

According to the FBI, Robert Doyle, Ronald Beasley Chaney, and Charles Halderman got tired of waiting on the coming race war and decided to set things off themselves. The trio was arrested November 8...

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Suspect in 3 Louisiana black church fires has 3 hate crimes added to his charges

On the evening of Wednesday, April 10, 21-year-old Holden Matthews was arrested in connection with three fires that terrorized the African American communities of Louisiana. In the span of less than...

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Billionaires pitch in for Notre Dame, but it's going to take all of us to...

While early indications are that the flames that swept through the 850-year-old Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris were set accidentally, the fires that burned three African American churches in...

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$1 billion pours in to rebuild Notre Dame ... and $1 million for Louisiana's...

It took less than two days to raise nearly $1 billion to restore and rebuild Notre Dame after the iconic Paris cathedral’s devastating fire. Experts say it could take years just to secure the massive...

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Authorities investigating 'acts of both racial terror and religious violence'...

The burnings of Black Lives Matter banners at historic Black churches is Washington, D.C., are being investigated as possible hate crimes. Banners were burned at Asbury United Methodist Church and...

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Proud Boys torch their claims to nonviolence with hate crime attacks on Black...

One of the recurrent myths that far-right street brawlers such as the Proud Boys like to tell each other, in bullhorn speeches and social media posts, is that what differentiates them from “rioters”...

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Attacks on Black D.C. churches by Proud Boys leave community shaken, but...

When the Proud Boys attacked African American churches in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 12 at the culmination of that day’s “March for Trump”—tearing down banners and signs reading Black Lives Matter, and...

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Black Kos, Week In Review - The African Muslim origins of the Blues

The African Muslim origins of the Blues —The Story of the How The Music of Africa Took Over the World, Part 1By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing EditorCross Road Blues—Robert JohnsonI went to the...

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Georgia GOP 'hijacked' bill with nearly 100 pages of voting restrictions, and...

Voting rights advocates and top businesses in the states have successfully pressured the Georgia GOP into dropping elements of proposed voting legislation that threatened to deliver devastating blows...

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