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Television producer Mona Scott Young is known for being the woman behind some of TV’s most controversial reality shows, and now one of her latest projects is causing a stir. Monday night’s premiere of VH1’s reality television series Sorority Sisters caused so much backlash from viewers that major companies are pulling their advertisements from the network. […]

Entertainment

Shonda Rhimes, the HSIC (Head Sista In Charge) at ABC on Thursday nights, took a homophobic Twitter follower to task after they admitted to being all in their feelings over the abundance of “gay” sex explored in Scandal and the premiere season of How To Get Away With Murder. Rhimes is staunch advocate of the LGBTQ […]

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  Ty Turner, a black LGBT activist and former North Carolina state Senate candidate was detained by police Monday after placing voting rights flyers on cars in a parking lot. According to Turner, he was handcuffed and driven to a parking lot where he sat in a police car for over an hour before eventually being taken to […]

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Podcast: Download Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses the lack of employment diversity in the tech industry and pressing Twitter to release their diversity numbers. Roland Martin explains how important access to capital and access to high paying  jobs/contracts are vital to the economic advancement of African Americans. Martin went on to explain that the fight for […]

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LGBT Center’s 26-Year-Old First Black Chair Faces Racial Hostility According to North Carolina’s Charlotte Post, the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte has elected Ranzeno Frazier as its youngest and first African-American chair of its board of trustees. But not everyone is happy about his groundbreaking role. Frazier’s selection was met with both positive and negative responses, […]

Sports

Michael Sam was selected by the St. Louis Rams during the seventh round, No. 249, of the NFL draft, making him the first openly gay player in the NFL. RELATED: Michael Sam: NFL Prospect Announces That He’s Gay “We were very fortunate to have the supplemental choices,” Rams coach Jeff Fisher said on NFL Network. “You use […]

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Just ten days after becoming CEO of web company Mozilla, Brendan Eich resigned after drawing the ire of LGBT advocates. In 2008, Eich donated money to the Proposition 8 campaign, an effort around legislation to make same-sex marriage illegal in California. When he was announced as the new Mozilla head, members of the LGBT community and even Mozilla employees expressed their dissatisfaction […]

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Roland Martin took to the airwaves Monday with his “NewsOne Now” panel to discuss the coming out of football player Michael Sam. The discussion took many turns, including into Martin’s insistence that Sam’s position not be compared to that of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in baseball. “On Twitter last night I talked […]

Sunday afternoon, former University of Missouri lineman Michael Sam, 24, announced to the world what his teammates have known for years. He’s gay. RELATED: UPDATE: Marcus Smart Suspended 3 Games For Pushing Fan Who Allegedly Called Him The N-Word [VIDEO] Italian Soccer Player Breaks Down In Tears After Racist Taunts Hurled During Game Though that […]

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The small town of Semmes, Alabama got the surprise of a lifetime when the Prancing Elites, an all male, gay dance team from Mobile, Alabama, performed at their Christmas Day parade, sparking controversy across social media, reports AL.com. The Elites, which consists of Captain Kentrell Collins, 26, Adrian Clemons, 23, Jerel Maddox, 23, Kareem Davis, 22, and […]

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UPDATE: 12/2/13, 9:38 PM ET: Server Dayna Morales has been suspended from her job pending an investigation into accusations that she faked an anti-gay note on a customer receipt, reports The Daily Caller. Server Dayna Morales has been suspended by her Bridgewater restaurant employers pending completion of their investigation of allegations that she falsified a […]

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Popular Hip-Hop writer, video blogger and radio host Jay Smooth tackled homophobia in Hip-Hop, saying that there’s “nobody more gangster than the LGBT,” reports Raw Story. Responding to the long-held belief that it’s not “safe” for gay men in Hip-Hop during an appearance on FX’s Totally Biased With W. Kemau Bell, Smooth had this to say: […]