Burning Taper gets racist Masonic hate mail

It's been way too long since The Burning Taper has received hate mail. Finally, over the weekend, we got one, and it's from an old ...

CSA: The Confederate States of America

This week I've been working with a 26-year old, college-educated, happily married black man in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He's not a Ma...

NC Freemasons recognize Prince Hall as brethren

Yesterday the Grand Lodge of North Carolina officially passed by a vote of 642 yeas to 328 nays the Resolution for Mutual Recognition of the...

Prince Hall Masons intervisit with mainstream Maryland brothers

A Masonic event of historic importance occurred recently in Hagerstown, Maryland. Friendship Lodge No. 84 recently hosted a visit from membe...

Masonic Senator Trent Lott under the microscope

Scottish Rite poster boy W. Bro. and U.S. Senator Trent Lott, 33°, KCCH, Grand Cross , is making news this week. On Monday, he announced he ...

Prince Hall Masons help install new 'mainstream' lodge officers

While the mainstream grand lodges of most southern states continue to pretend it is still 1950 by refusing to recognize black men as Masons,...

Would you sit in lodge with a Prince Hall Mason?

Last month I had the pleasure of attending an Entered Apprentice degree at St. John's Lodge No. 2, in Middletown, Connecticut. I was war...

Masons on the level: The Don Imus flap

In the last several weeks I've become friends with fellow Masonic blogger Brother Isaiah Coffey, a member of a Prince Hall Affiliated Ma...