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By Anare V. Holmes
This is the question my good friend Rachelle Johnson-Maiga asked me as we discussed the state of black gay and straight relations in America.
Rachelle is originally from Detroit and has since become a woman’s health and reproductive specialist in Puerto Rico. We met in 1998 w… Continue

(Originally written in Fall 2008)
By Anare V. Holmes

Groups such as the National Black Justice Coalition, the National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition and the International Federation of Black Prides are doing the work to help transform LGBT communities of African descent.


Who… Continue

By Anare V. Holmes
producer@pridetv.org
(June 19, 2009) Peoria Stroker and OBC DreamTheatre in association with Mike Muse and Minna Mae Productions are on the grind to get UNSPEAKABLE, a play about the life of Richard Pryor, on Broadway.
A special reading featuring Loretta Devin… Continue

By Anare V. Holmes
(June 12, 2009) My life changed the summer of 1983.
I was 8 years-old when I boarded the Greyhound bus leaving Hartford, Connecticut en route to Madison, Wisconsin to visit my father, Toye Holmes.
I was not aware before getting on the bus that I would not return to live with m… Continue

An opportunity to spark compassion,
stop cycle of internalized hatred
by Cleo Manago

Throughout the long history of non-fiction, documentary film making, few examples have surfaced that deeply illuminate the struggle among Black males in America, since slavery, to retrieve some semblance… Continue