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Tag: Mel White

Truthdig Critic Wins National Entertainment Journalism Award

Mel White took home the top prize at the L.A. Press Club’s Fifth Annual National Entertainment Journalism (NEJ) Awards in the online critic category.

Posted on Nov 19, 2012 READ MORE

Illustration by Mr. Fish

The War on Gays

By Chris Hedges —

In most of America, life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.

Posted on May 28, 2012 READ MORE

This Gay Man Represented the President

By Mel White —

James C. Hormel’s transformation from a confused and closeted gay kid to the nation’s first openly gay ambassador is chronicled in his memoir “Fit to Serve.”

Posted on Feb 17, 2012 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

According to James H. Cone’s “The Cross and the Lynching Tree,” Jesus was crucified by the same principalities and powers that lynched almost 5,000 black people in this country. The lynching tree is the cross in America.