New Black Woman

If you’re thinking about going to see what the buzz is all about with Tyler Perry’s Temptation, don’t. Jezebel has a great piece about Perry’s latest in his installment of blaming and shaming black women. Not only does the movie have a rape problem, it also continues along Perry’s predictable path of unleashing some punishment [...]

I wish I was making this up, but I’m not. The skinny via Rawstory, which quotes Tennessee Republican State Senator Stacy Campfield making these outrageous false claims: “Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community,” he told Michelangelo Signorile, who hosts a radio program on SiriusXM OutQ. “It was one guy screwing a monkey, if [...]

>Yes, I said it. And I do believe it. This New York Times article about the lifting of the ban on immigrants who are H.I.V. positive caught my attention not only because it ended two decades of discrimination, but it addressed a bit of revisionist history on the part of some of Helms’ most fervent [...]

>For those who may  not be in the loop, Uganda is considering a bill that would impose the death penalty on some gays in the country. The Ugandan legislation in its current form would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of same-sex rape. “Serial offenders” also could face [...]