Marriage Act.

As for the resolution, Brock says, "I think it does put a dent in the perception that the African-American community is in some way homophobic, and not willing to engage with this community."

Some inside the NAACP may think the resolution goes too far. But there are those who think it's just right — and still others who say it doesn't go far enough.

Recently at a bar on Chicago's South Side, a crowd of mostly black lesbians started to fill in the chairs lined up in front of a stage, getting ready for POW-WOW, a weekly poetry slam. Although some of the poets were current or past members of the NAACP, Misty DeBerry had never joined the civil rights group. But she says she was shocked and excitedThis article originally appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus.

There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.

Thousands of Zapatistas turned out this month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). At the New Year festivities in the five caracoles, or regional centers of Zapatista autonomous government, veterans and adolescents not yet born at the time of the insurrection danced, flirted, shot off rockets, and celebrated “autonomy”—the ideal of self-government that lies at the heart of the Zapatista experience.

Public re-emergence

The Zapatistas came out by the thousands for their anniversary parties, surprising some. Their movement’s death, it turns out, had been greatly exaggerated. Accustomed to having