Bishop Eddie Long has passed away and he will soon be funeralized. However, Black church communities cannot bury his troubled past with him. The church—New Birth et al.—must reckon with the Goliath of child sexual abuse and rescue the true Davids, our children, from the perverse and death-dealing realities of molestation, incest and rape.
The sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly have plagued his career since the early 2000s. In interviews, he’s always been curt and disrespectful when the questions started to get a bit too hot. But all of that goes out the window during Kelly’s latest interview with GQ, in which he opens up like never before on everything ranging from his relationship with Aaliyah, to an alleged sex tape.
