(6 comments)        Saturday, July 26, 2008
We Humans Must Figure out How to Make Peace
SHARE It's not fair that they can no longer participate in conversations about tolerance while sitting under trees amidst buildings that touch the sky. Those ribbons remind everyone that there are millions of broken hearts across the world thanks to the horror that the un-necessary human behavior war is.

(1 comments)        Thursday, April 10, 2008
In Search of the Brotherhood of Man
SHARE Perhaps now, the quest for social equality continues but so to does the hope for a "brotherhood of man," even in politics as the issue of race continues to play a role among millions of voters.

       Saturday, March 29, 2008
The Runway is Still Occupied
SHARE Sometimes, these same patterns emerge in political races. But, at least on Project Runway, the final goodbye is saved for after the runway show. In the case of the contest between Hillary and Barack, the runway is still occupied and the show goes on, but, seeds of fantasy indicating an already rendered final decision have been planted by some who would bid one candidate goodbye.

       Thursday, March 20, 2008
Memories from The East Village: My Shock and Awe
SHARE And, as time continues to pass in neighborhoods and homes across the nation, as images of fireballs and thundering explosions fade yet another year away into our collective memory, millions still ask the question, was it all worth it.

       Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Nightmare Continues
SHARE Perhaps we are suffering from collective Iraq news fatigue which could be related to a frustrating lack of faith in our current, apparently along for the ride do nothing Congress, a body that seems to lack the courage to further challenge and air the current administration's past sins.

       Sunday, January 6, 2008
Despite Tortured Past and Bible Belt Locale: Birmingham's LGBT Community Makes Gains (EDGE)
SHARE There is a large, visible, albeit loosely organized gay community in Alabama's largest city. There are 24-hour gay bars, social, religious and political organizations, annual events, even entire neighborhoods that gays have transformed into friendly enclaves.

       Monday, October 15, 2007
The Role of the Black Church in the Fight Against AIDS
SHARE Experts,Observers weigh in on role of homophobia and the power of a recent conclave of Black Clergy In New York where ministers pledged to step up fight against HIV/AIDS which has had devastating impact on African Americans.

       Monday, May 28, 2007
Notes on A Thursday Before Memorial Day: NYC
SHARE The view to the south offers New York harbor, the statue of Liberty but then, the geographic direction of Tennessee comes to mind.

       Thursday, February 21, 2008
Is Obama a True Agent of Change?
SHARE Those that have done their homework and posed legitimate questions about policy, relationships and other issues have often been met with arrogant, evasive and dismissive shrugs and a fiercely protective network of supporters who shoot down critiques of the anointed beacon of change.