Obama’s Visit to Kenya — Father’s Homeland Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper President Obama took Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to task over the...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya’s leaders on gay rights, corruption and counterterrorism Saturday with...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court term that ended this week will be remembered for the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, but...
(BBC) – A new opinion poll suggests that 87% of people in Nigeria support the legal ban on same-sex relations. That number is lower than five...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson said Wednesday night that he was “irritated” by the comparison between the fight for same-sex marriage rights and the Civil Rights...
Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law that...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press TOM DAVIES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week ago, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was considered one of the few Republican...
(Politico) – Former Rep. Barney Frank, who wrote in POLITICO Magazine this month about the dilemmas he faced as a gay member of Congress who kept his...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson says homosexuality is a choice because many people “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.”...
(USA Today) – Why do you oppose same-sex marriage? Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell posed this question to hundreds of people across the nation as part of...
(BBC) – Ugandan police harass and physically abuse gay people in custody, a report by a human rights group has said. Chapter Four Uganda documented several...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s entirely appropriate that the bigoted antics of Alabama’s conservative, publicity-hound Chief Justice Roy S. Moore in unsuccessfully...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist When it comes to the issue of gay rights in America, sometimes you can see the tide of a...
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Activists have praised the U.S. government’s decision to remove Gambia from a trade agreement in response to human rights abuses,...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will work to ensure that gay and lesbian Americans are eligible to take leave from their...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist In the 2008 presidential election, Blacks were the largest voting bloc for Obama (as a percentage)—96 percent. In 2012, Obama received...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Due to Supreme Court rulings that were occurring in the United States, President Barack Obama’s advocacy for gay rights took place...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life—I told my family that I...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism,” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American...
