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Malcolm X, The Lover

This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

This month I interviewed Douglas Field about his book All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. Field

In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,