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I was at the Stonewall riots. The movie ‘Stonewall’ gets everything wrong

By Mark Segal

I’m not sure who “Stonewall” was made for. It wasn’t made for young LGBT people seeking good LGBT history, nor for a community who wishes to see its history portrayed with dignity and respect, and without perpetuating stereotypes and old…

Column: Here’s the church; here’s the steeple. Open the doors — where’s all the people?

By Wendy Thomas Russell

Sometimes it seems as though America is hemorrhaging religion. According to the 2014 General Social Survey, 7.5 million adults — about 3 percent of all adults in this country — severed religious ties between 2012 and 2014. Think of…

Column: Parents, use this Lady Gaga video to talk to your sons about rape

By Wendy Thomas Russell

If you are the parent of a boy between the ages of 11 and 18, Lady Gaga has just given you a golden opportunity to talk about rape. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but what…

Your holiday cheat sheet to Yom Kippur

By Wendy Thomas Russell

Yom Kippur is the last and most important of Judaism's 10 High Holy Days, which begin on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Column: Don’t confuse forgiveness in Charleston with forgiveness for racism

By Andra Gillespie

The best way for us as a nation to honor the victims of the Charleston shooting is to do more than just pat ourselves on the back because their relatives took the bold, courageous and painful step of publicly starting…

Column: Ahmed’s clock proves it’s time to disarm our irrational fear

By Wendy Thomas Russell

The story of a Texas 9th-grader arrested because he had the gall to make a clock and bring it to school to show his teacher has left Americans understandably reeling. But Ahmed Mohamed’s situation is about more than Islamophobia. It’s…