Houston, TX, July 6, 2006 - The portrayal of black women in popular music andvideos is too often degrading and the black community must find away to change these images, singer Jill Scott says.

The 34 year-old singer spoke Monday before a panel that discussed the issue took the stage at ...

So, album of the year for that title alone; but just how relevant or revolutionary is Peaches in 2006? Aren't we all relaxed about sex and sexual politics these days? Well, maybe people are in places as gleefully filthy as Peaches' adopted Berlin. But, in Britain? No way. This is still uptight, immature, hypocrite-central; a country where 'gay' is a by-word for 'lame', where the tits-out ...

Mozambique: UN Envoy Warns of 'Terrible Price to Pay' for Aids

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has thrust Mozambique "into a grave crisis", and unless it is treated as an emergency, "there will be a terrible price to pay", warned Stephen Lewis, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on AIDS, at a Maputo press conference on Friday.

Lewis has spent the past week in Mozambiq...

(SMW) - Somewhere around the midpoint of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," swashbuckling Will Turner battles an adversary atop a giant water wheel that is rolling downhill at breakneck speed. Inside the runaway wheel, Capt. Jack Sparrow somersaults like a hamster as he chases a key that bounces from paddle to paddle, eluding his grasp.

The madcap scene is a fair representatio...

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“Ooooh, yuck, that’s disgusting!” she said, screwing up her face and wincing. My personal alarm bells started ringing. Having worked for many years as a sex positive activist, which is nothing more nor less t...

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In the first general debate about sexuality and ministry since 2003, eight proposals were put to the 250 delegates gathered for the week-long meeting.

Under the ...

Truth is, we look for acquaintance, we crave a connection; it's human nature. So let me tell you that the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction went to Caroline Elkins for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, $29), published in Australia as Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya (Jonathan Cape, $69.95). That subtitle of the US edition caused ...

WITH its zealous teenage narrator and topical theme, Terrorist may be John Updike's most fiery fiction in years.

Not since 1978's The Coup has Updike felt so overtly political; not since 1971's Rabbit Redux has he been so steeped in the headlines of the day.

"I was excited by having an 18-year-old hero and by trying to present, through him, the terrorist point of view," Updike sa...

WITH its zealous teenage narrator and topical theme, Terrorist may be John Updike's most fiery fiction in years.

Not since 1978's The Coup has Updike felt so overtly political; not since 1971's Rabbit Redux has he been so steeped in the headlines of the day.

"I was excited by having an 18-year-old hero and by trying to present, through him, the terrorist point of view," Updike sa...

The father of was a closeted gay man who taught English and ran a funeral home. His life and death (likely a suicide) taught her as thing or two about the need to be open about her own sexuality. This Bechdel has done in spades through her popular comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," and now her new memoir, Fun House, which she will read from and discuss at A Room of One’s Own, 6 pm.

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