Race, Ethnicity, Gender

I recently attended an academic conference at the University of Notre Dame called “Intersectional Inquiries and Collaborative Action: Gender and Race.” It felt like a return to my undergraduate years in the early 1990s. I saw women with shaved heads wearing ethnic print scarves,... Read more

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo (July 24 to August 9, 2020) are about a year away, but controversy is already building. There’s always Olympic controversy, of course, most often about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). At the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, host-country athletes and... Read more

The Vatican’s newly-released document “Male and Female He Created Them” affirms (once again) the Christian vision of the human person proclaimed and defended by the Catholic Church for more than 2,000 years. The vision set forth in “Male and Female He Created Them” is one of... Read more

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, sparked a firestorm of controversy when he tweeted recently that “Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June” because they “promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic... Read more

Forgiveness in the face of murderous violence is a radical act that remains as shocking and controversial today as it was when a Second Temple-era Palestinian prophet commanded his disciplesto love and to pray for those who persecuted them and ended his mortal life praying for divine forgiveness... Read more

As everyone knows, June is African-American Music Appreciation Month. It's also National Safety Month and National Smile Month. And we can't forget that it is ALS Awareness Month, Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, Cataract Awareness Month, Hernia Awareness Month, Myasthenia Gravis... Read more

Gay representation has certainly come a long way from Patrick Stewart and Steven Weber in the classic 1995 gay film, “Jeffrey.” That same year, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes shocked audiences with their hilarious and stunningly relatable performances as urban drag queens... Read more

"Family violence can take many forms,” says Madam Justice Marzari of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, including “unreasonable restrictions or preventions of a family member’s personal autonomy.” To be more specific, “family violence” can now take the form of refusing to accept... Read more

President and CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson called the recent burnings of black churches in Tennessee and Louisiana “domestic terrorism.” Some pastors have reportedly started sleeping in their houses of worship to fend off would-be arsonists. “What is happening in Tennessee and... Read more

It’s been a few years since someone has tried to ban Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from a high school reading list. Some lawmakers in New Jersey are making sure the sanity doesn’t last too long. As reported by Matt Friedman of Politico, New Jersey Assembly members... Read more