Frankie Knuckles has left us. Our Starchild of Disco, who has spun galaxies of beats and sweat-trances of love and sex for all to live. Knuckles, “The Godfather of House Music,” has shuffled off this mortal coil and has merged with…
Happy birthday to Bayard Rustin. Here was a man who ferociously tended a diverse ecosystem of struggle–as an anti-war warrior, civil rights activist, labor rights crusader, human rights monitor, and gifted strategist. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s chief adviser, Rustin…
“I was born black and female,” said the trailblazing playwright Lorraine Hansberry. Her Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. She won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in…
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Frankie Knuckles: Pour That Baby Powder Like Libation
Frankie Knuckles has left us. Our Starchild of Disco, who has spun galaxies of beats and sweat-trances of love and sex for all to live. Knuckles, “The Godfather of House Music,” has shuffled off this mortal coil and has merged with…
Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin!
Happy birthday to Bayard Rustin. Here was a man who ferociously tended a diverse ecosystem of struggle–as an anti-war warrior, civil rights activist, labor rights crusader, human rights monitor, and gifted strategist. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s chief adviser, Rustin…
Lorraine Hansberry: One + Love Celebrates Queer Women’s History Month
“I was born black and female,” said the trailblazing playwright Lorraine Hansberry. Her Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. She won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in…