links for 2006-09-29

“‘Homophobia is one of the major obstacles to black Americans coming to grips with this disease in the ways that we should,’ he said… He also said the situation would be “immeasurably eased” if more black gay people came out of the closet…”

(tags: africanamerican hiv aids homophobia glbt)

“The case, which names Wall Street behemoths JP Morgan Chase & Co., Aetna Inc., Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and others, says the companies’ predecessors issued loans to slave owners and, in some cases, owned, insured and transported slaves…”

(tags: slavery reparations africanamerican history)

Welcome to the second installment of Jenn-subjects-herself-to-a-travesty-of-television, wherein I will be live-blogging the second episode of Survivor: Race Wars.

(tags: survivor tv stereotypes)