... Boykin forcefully pries open the faulty logic of the black-gay comparison. "For both blacks and gays," writes Boykin, "we start to see the ridiculous nature of our litmus tests when we realize that we end up excluding not only blacks ...
... Boykin says. "The whole nation is enslaved by this attitude." Healing Hands is a takeoff on a famous classical work. Two children with angel wings are perched on a win- dowsill. Boykin used his niece and nephew as subjects, garbed in ...
... Boykin. Ri. odgers B. Boykin always knew he Lwanted to be an artist, but growing up in Camden, S.C., in the 1960s there was no precedent for this ambition. Boykin was the youngest of eight children in a typical working class family. "I ...
... Boykin was recently appointed executive director of the Jefferson County (Birmingham, Ala.) Committee for Economic ... Boykin an annual salary of $15,000. Mrs. Boykin described JCCEO as an organization designed to work with all ...
In brief tribute, Rev. King Sr. praises fallen Deacon Boykin as "a wonderful man who lifted our hearts." Boykin served Ebenezer for 39 years. Wide World H Bethune Memorial: More than 100,000 observers gather. CENSUS. Services. Held. For.
... Boykin got along so smashingly at a recent press event in Los Angeles that it was easy to forget they are fierce competitors. The two out gay activists and eight other contestants are fighting for the grand prize of $200,000 and the ...
... Boykin bears witness to this old truism when he writes of his own coming-out to his family. Of course, a central obstacle to that acceptance is the black church. Boykin examines the seemingly "un- tangleable" knot of faith, Jesus ...
... Boykin-Towns, second from right, with NAACP leaders and a scholarship recipient at the branch's Freedom Fund dinner ... Boykin-Towns, a young woman she believed could "bring back the voice of the Brooklyn Branch and get that ...
... Boykin: I was disappointed by Kerry's decision not to support marriage and more disappointed by his decision to support the constitutional amendment in Massachusetts against marriage. I thought that was a big mistake. I think it was an ...
... Boykin had grown up at the Boykin place just a. By. Harper. Gault. Illustrations by Robert A. Graef "YOUNG BOYKIN had been 'pushing the pellet' there since he was knee-high to a putter." few miles from The Pines, and he'd been "pushing ...