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“You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying in sweat.” — Lydia Grant (Debbie Allen), FAME Xavier Logan,...

If Kipper Jones, 59, could go back in time to give himself advice, the celebrated songwriter and vocalist says he would simply say,...

“Alexa, play “Through With Love” by Destiny’s Child.” It’s been nearly 17 years since the music and lyrics of this defiant and...

If you spend any amount of time on social media throughout the day, your timeline has most likely been inundated with photos of smiling...

“The Holy Spirit can use anybody. I am a pastor, a preacher, a teacher, and I’m bisexual.” It’s been 14 years since Bishop Dennis...

“What happens when a Black boy puts a flower behind his ear?” In a perfect world, free from the constraints of societal and cultural...

When Brandi Pinckney-Green learned that NAESM Founder Rudolph “Rudy” Carn needed help to bring his vision for a new Men’s Health and...

Imagine having to process the life-altering news that you’ve acquired HIV. Now imagine that your new health status can be weaponized...

For over 20 years, Tracee McDaniel has been a permanent fixture in trans activism in Atlanta. With a historic appointment by former...

When Magic Johnson announced during a press conference in 1991 that he’d acquired HIV, Masonia Traylor, 34, was only four-years-old. And...

In 1989, Malcolm Reid, 63, had gone to so many funerals that he lost count. He remembers being so emotionally exhausted from burying...

If you ask David Wilmott, 38, and Darnell Morgan, 34, co-owners of the new Kennesaw restaurant Forks & Flavors how long they’ve been...

By Dionne Walker Growing up in the progressive Washington D.C. area, lesbian-identified Britney Lee never gave a thought to whether she’d...

Something is happening on blackgayweddings.com, and that something reaches beyond the dozens of Black LGBTQ+ couples prominently featured...

Before Lady Gaga released her gay anthem “Born This Way” in 2011, singer Carl Bean, an openly gay Black man signed to Motown Records...

Three is not a crowd for Que Brown, 28, Tye Brown, 26, and Martel Star, 27. The Tallahassee, FL and Mansfield, OH transplants are one of...

There will never be another Sylvester. From the grave, his spirit, music, and unapologetic queerness during an era that would have...

The name Paris Barclay is synonymous with television. The two-time Emmy award-winning director was blazing a path in Hollywood and...

“I’m gonna get hurt.” That’s what Deondray Gossfield, 47, recalls saying to himself in the fall of 1996 after meeting Quincy Gossfield,...

Before E. Lynn Harris (1955-2009) became a nationally recognized and critically acclaimed author, his manuscript for what would become...