Tag: Raven-Symoné

  • Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…

  • America’s sex and race failure: Why Raven-Symone and an Ohio couple are struggling Salon 2014-10-08 Brittney Cooper, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey How a TV star shunning labels, and a lesbian couple with a Black baby illustrate the fight to assert one’s humanity…