Thanksgiving Week Thankfulness For Pam

It's Thanksgiving week, so I'd like to express my thanks to Pam and for Pam-- the African-American Lesbian and Head Barista here who embraces the wide diversity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
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CNN hits hot-button topics of blacks, LGBT rights, and the Obama admin

According to Don Lemon, CNN is working on a "Gay in America" series as it has for blacks and Latinos (one can only hope that the network will not leave Ts out of the picture).
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Black Women: Don't Blame HIV on DL

Straight black men with multiple partners bear greater responsibility for the high rates of HIV in black women than bisexual men on the "down low," according to an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Book on black women's stardom

NEW YORK - DOROTHY Dandridge was the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Almost a half century passed before another black woman - Halle Berry - won the award.
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Official Says Don't Blame the "Down Low"

Heterosexual black men with multiple sex partners, expert says, are the source of high infection rate among black women.
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Official Says 'Down Low' Men Not Responsible for High HIV Rates Among Black Women

Official Says 'Down Low' Men Not Responsible for High HIV Rates Among Black WomenSeattle MediumWhat is needed most, he said, are new strategies targeted to the new groups instead of old ones developed when HIV was considered largely a White, gay man's .
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I'm Revolted: My Oldest Step-Daughter has Straightened Her Wavy Hair

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and the American Journal of Color Arousal (AMJCA).

The societal pressures they feel to straighten their hair is intense.
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Morehouse College Fires Employee Over Homophobic Email

Atlanta's Morehouse College, one of the nation's most prominent black universities, has fired staffer Sandra Bradley after she went off on a rant to colleagues after receiving a forwarded email about a wedding between two black men.
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Morehouse College fires an employee responsible for sending biased email from work addy

We had a busy thread yesterday about this story that expanded into an interesting discussion about the general sentiment behind Morehouse College administrative assistant Sandra Bradley's email -- the frustration, even desperation of some black women to find a marriageable black man.
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Homophobic email about same-sex wedding spurs controversy at Morehouse College

As someone who works in IT, it blows my mind that people still send dumb*ss offensive emails that surely will get them into trouble.
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Study Looks at STD Risks of Black Youths

Young black women often find it difficult to take steps to protect themselves from STDs, researchers find.
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A white woman's thought about black hair

As the title implies, my thoughts may not be worth more than the pixels they're printed on.

Ta-Nehesi Coates posted about Black hair, and there was some discussion of Pam's post at Salon (link goes to cross-post here), which is also about Chris Rock's upcoming Good Hair (note to self: SEE IT).
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Open thread: hellfire on a pizza box redux

I was looking through my video uploads and ran across this unforgettable bit of business from last year's NC Pride.
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Just How Many Millions and Movie Deals Will E. Lynn Harris' Legacy Fetch?

In life, author E. Lynn Harris mystified us: That a gay black man in America develop such a loyal following among black women writing books about other black men hiding their sexuality was, unarguably, a phenomenon.
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RIP

Naomi Sims, whose appearance as the first black model on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal in November 1968 was a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement, and who went on to design successful collections of wigs and cosmetics for black women under her name, died Saturday in Newark.
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Prevention Parties?

A Pittsburgh group finds small in-home parties are an effective way to reach black women with HIV prevention information.
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HIV Still Hits Blacks Disproportionately Hard

Especially at risk are black women.
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R.I.P. Author E. Lynn Harris

Openly gay author E. Lynn Harris passed away late last week at 54 years-old. Harris was well-known for novels which depicted the double lives of black gay/bisexual men, and his work was particularly popular with black women.
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Author E. Lynn Harris Dead At 54

Author E. Lynn Harris, who books about African-American men on the down-low were wildly popular with black women, died unexpectedly in Los Angeles yesterday at age 54.
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E. Lynn Harris, gay black author

Long before the secret world of closeted black gay men came to light in America, bestselling author E.
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