Denise Velez Posts

There is no better time than World AIDS Day to recommit ourselves to achieving an AIDS-free generation. This year, we will celebrate the tremendous progress we have made together in expanding access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care services, and focus on the potential to achieve sustainable epidemic control and end AIDS as a public health threat.

Why are we supposed to automatically trust those assigned to the protection of the President when it is patently clear that security has been lax? Could racism inside the agency be one of the variables that comes into play? The Secret Service certainly has a long — and ongoing — history with disgustingly racist behavior.

Brown v. Board of Education ended the official policy of segregation, but that doesn't mean that we, as a country, aren't still living in a 2-tiered class system. Much more needs to be done before separate-but-equal is truly a thing of the past.

A notorious prison in Alabama was recently cited by the Department of Justice for extreme violations of the Constitutions after an investigation into conditions showed a rampant prevalence of sexual harassment and rape by prison staffers. "The women at Tutwiler universally fear for their safety," according to the report.

Taking a page from North Carolina's 'Moral Monday' movement, which protests the dogmatic and extreme rightward turn at their statehouse, South Carolina has begun 'Truthful Tuesday'. Protesters will convene in Charleston on January 14th to put their state government on notice.