Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

The U.S. House of Representatives sole lesbian member will introduce a bill targeted at providing gay federal employees many of the same rights as their straight co-workers in a domestic partnership bill timed to join up with a matching Senate version of the bill sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman ...

Just as I was thinking it was about time to publish a column on the topic of "leverage" at law firms (roughly speaking, the associate to partner ratio, although there's more than one way to calculate something that people will call "leverage"), here comes a slew of pieces on the ...

In late February, 15 high school students from East Los Angeles spent a day in the San Gabriel Mountains, sponsored by the Sierra Club's Inner City Outings program (ICO) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). "This was my first time to the snow," says Jesse De ...

Today I received an email from an associate producer of the ABC “reality” program Wife Swap inviting me to take part in the show. They thought that my now marginal interest in cemeteries might bring a few hoots from their television audience. I told said producer to go fuck herself ̵...

Lindsay was in Pico-Robertson for the High Holidays and she is a fan of Chabad. Joe emails: “I suppose if Ronson has the kid, then there’s no halachic problem?” According to IMDB: Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend Samantha Ronson have fuelled rumours they are set to wed - by visiting a ...

"The partners of gay and lesbian state workers would be able to get health insurance coverage under a bill given initial backing by the Senate on Monday. The measure (Senate Bill 88) would add domestic partners to the list of dependents eligible for coverage. Same-sex partners who have been in ...

With the economy ever tanking, now is as good a time as any to take stock of where your gay dollars are going. You may not have much (or, thanks to prudent investing in gold and shares in Mr. Hobo J. Poverschmidt's Hobo Sticks Emporium, you may have quite a bit), so why spend it on companies wh...

Today's New York Times carries an op-ed written by Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn which proposes a compromise on gay marriage: Whatever our disagreements on the merits of gay marriage, we agree on two facts. First, most gay and lesbian Americans feel they need and deserve the perquisites and p...

Let me state an obvious fact about Internet marketing: Joint ventures (JVs) are the quickest and most effective way to make a lot of sales and/or bring in a ton of targeted leads. The reason this is the case is fairly obvious. You get someone who already has access to and a relationship with a large...