Dear Editor: Rape is a crime against a person’s body and soul. And to condone a rape you are condoning and accepting the rapist. Throughout the United States, many men are sitting on Death Row who murdered to cover up…
Three community leaders weigh in on Trump’s claims about ‘Black jobs’
One of the divisive claims made by presidential candidate Donald Trump is that immigrants are taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans. To better understand how this rhetoric is heard in the community, BNG interviewed three diversity and faith…
Abortion after birth is called a school shooting
Lately we have heard the message that our daughters have fewer rights than we did. That’s a jarringly frightening notion as many women like me were not empowered to make decisions about our own bodies coming out of a deeply…
Here’s one evangelical who doesn’t favor Harris or Trump
There are evangelicals for Kamala Harris and evangelicals for Donald Trump. And there are evangelicals for neither. Evangelical influencer Preston Sprinkle, who runs the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender, declared a pox on both political houses Sept. 16. Sprinkle…
Trump’s prophets ratchet up attacks against Harris after presidential debate
Some of Donald Trump’s evangelical supporters are ratcheting up their attacks against Kamala Harris in the aftermath of last week’s presidential debate, going so far as to compare her once again to “Jezebel” and calling the Democratic Party “demonic.” The…
NAR prophets still declaring Trump is God’s man, scholar warns
Among the most ardent Christian nationalists today is a subgroup most Americans are not aware of but that is having an outsized influence on conservative politics and culture. That group, the New Apostolic Reformation, is a focus of research done…
Opposing Trump secretly isn’t enough
On Jan. 26, 2022, my opinion piece, “Where are the Good Republicans?” was published by BNG. The article was prompted by the Senate’s defeat of two voting rights bills — the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting…
Haitian-descent lawmakers have a word for Trump and Vance and their claims about pets in Springfield
Donald Trump and JD Vance are smearing Haitian immigrants in their anti-immigrant presidential campaign, according to Florida elected officials of Haitian descent. And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is joining them, eight Floridians declared in a news release Sept. 12. Those…
Donald Trump’s comeuppance
COMEUPPANCE (noun): a punishment or fate that someone deserves: “he got his comeuppance.” Synonyms: due, retribution, requital, recompense, just deserts, deserved fate, due reward, just punishment, castigation, wrath, chastisement. Beginning shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sept. 10,…