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Congrats to Alicia J. Skillman & The Triangle Foundation!

Alicia-Skillman

While Roland Burris slides into Barack's senate seat muttering, "The precious, Me wants it!" with a slimey grin, Al Franken declares victory [Yippee!!] to Norm Coleman's chagrin, openly gay Brad Kiley is named to a senior White House Administrative post (and the same LGBT crowd burning Pastor Warren effigies consider it "crumbs" and none news) ... virtually unreported on major LGBT blogs is the appointment of an African American woman as head of an LGBT organization in Michigan.

I find it very curious that this story has gone under the radar since its Dec. 23rd announcement. ~~

Posted by on January 06, 2009 at 10:08 AM in Activism, African American History, SGL and LGBT, Taylor Siluwé |

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Christopher Hicks-Marshall a.k.a. Chuma

Taylor, thanks for bringing this to the forefront of news. It's important that we acknowledge these accomplishments in the SGL community. We can always count on you to unearth that which usually buried away. GOOD STUFF!

Posted by: Christopher Hicks-Marshall a.k.a. Chuma | January 06, 2009 at 05:47 PM

Bernadette Brown

I am the policy director at Triangle Foundation and I just wanted to thank you for mentioning this. While the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press covered this story, there is considerable underreporting in the national news and major blogs, as you mentioned. Not only is her appointment here significant but we’ve been told that she is the only African American executive director of any statewide LGBT organization (that’s not specifically for people of color) in the country. We are thrilled with Alicia's arrival here and we look forward to working with her. She is a great asset to both the LGBT and African American communities. I encourage people to visit our website and read her profile.

Posted by: Bernadette Brown | January 07, 2009 at 01:28 PM

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