SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The LGBT community’s annual salute to Black History Month will take place on Friday, Feb. 10 with the fourth annual San Diego Bayard Rustin Honors, sponsored by The LGBT Community Center, The Imperial Court de San Diego and the San Diego GLBT Historic Task Force. Bayard Rustin was a mentor and…
As Black History Month is winding down, Media Matters for America (MMA) looked at Fox News coverage for the past few weeks. It’s pretty grim as MMA reports, “… Fox News has spent February peddling racist tropes about the black community. Fox personalities and guests repeated racist canards about black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births, and “black behavior,” mocked a…
The University of California, San Diego is honoring African American history throughout February with events including art exhibits, lectures, film screenings, spoken word performances and the annual Black History Month Scholarship Brunch, featuring special guest speaker Danny Glover, a renowned filmmaker, actor and activist. This year’s Black History Month theme “Hallowed Ground: Sites of African…
thursday, feb. 20 The Ring of Power – Wagner vs. Tolkien: The Story Behind the Ring The battle between good and evil bursts forth on the stage, as Nuvi Mehta delves into the myths underlying Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Musical signatures of good and evil blaze through…
The struggle for LGBT equality is part of the fight for civil rights for all minorities, and a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement started by Dr. Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin and other legendary activists during the 1950s and ’60s, according to leading LGBT-rights activists. Yet, says author and activist, Rob Smith, who is…
