Freedom Riders

The Relatives Want to Save Your Psychedelic Soul

A swirl of gritty, psychedelic guitars and screaming fans with their hands raised to the heavens isn't what you typically think of when you hear gospel. But Dallas-bred group the Relatives have no concern about your or anyone else's preconceived notions of the Lord's music. They weren't concerned in ... More >>

Constant Deportations Lead to Days of Rage

The U.S. Supreme Court And President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience

The Voice Talks Gay Marriage and Race on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show [AUDIO]

After publishing our piece yesterday "5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama," we had the chance to talk about the president's new support fo marriage equality with WNYC's Brian Lehrer. We took calls from black listeners and talked to Lehrer about the many reasons why we b ... More >>

Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

21 Voice Stories from 2011 That Melted Even This Grizzled Journalist's Heart to Report

James Worrell​Looking back, 2011 has been quite a year, especially on the gay rights front, one of our major beats. Like the cardiac organ caught in a bear trap accompanying Jen Doll's "Plight of the Single Lady," there were times when, objective reporter or not, the stories we were reporting ... More >>

We Are the 1 Percent, Say a Few People

In response to the tactics of Occupy Wall Street, which self-professed "Capitalist Pig" Jonathan Hoenig described in SmartMoney earlier this week as a mob using force and intimidation to achieve their collectivist goals -- he bases this on Merriam-Webster's third definition of "occupy": "to take or ... More >>

'Hal Willner's Freedom Rides Project'