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California's New Protections for Transgender Students

California's New Protections for Transgender Students Transgender student Benji Delgadillo poses for a photo at San Juan Hills High School in California. After an increase in teen suicides spurred by antigay  ...

Was it gay-bashing?

Was it gay-bashing? Many people — and certainly much of the LGBT community, as well as coworkers, friends, family, media colleagues, sources — know I am an out lesbian.

DC Black Pride leader Fowlkes elected chair of DNC LGBT Caucus

DC Black Pride leader Fowlkes elected chair of DNC LGBT Caucus The Democratic National Committee's LGBT Caucus voted unanimously on Thursday to elect D.C. gay Democratic activist and Black LGBT Pride leader Earl  ...

Latin American leaders love Twitter

Latin American leaders love Twitter Chavez's account still leads the pack of Latin American leaders, with 4 million Twitter followers. In a politically divided country like Venezuela, being able to  ...

Brazil's Helena Rizzo Named Latin America's Best Female Chef

Brazil's Helena Rizzo Named Latin America's Best Female Chef Brazilian chef and co-owner of one of that country's top restaurants, Helena Rizzo, has been named Latin America's Best Female Chef for 2013. Rizzo started in  ...

School meal programmes benefit children, support local farms in ...

School meal programmes benefit children, support local farms in ... School feeding programmes in Latin America are having a positive impact on children's well-being and are fostering local development when food is sourced  ...

Report: Steady College Enrollment Growth for Underrepresented ...

Report: Steady College Enrollment Growth for Underrepresented ... Newly-released analysis of U.S. Education Department data shows that from 2009 to 2011, the rate at which Black and Latino students entered four-year  ...

Venezuela: Latin America's Next Space Pioneer?

Venezuela: Latin America's Next Space Pioneer? However, these represent only 29 percent of homes around the country . Due to the socio-geographical characteristics of Latin America, it was impossible to  ...

Windows Phone gains critical momentum in Latin America

Windows Phone gains critical momentum in Latin America 2 smartphone OS in Latin America behind Android, a critical milestone for a platform that needs to gain traction in key countries such as Brazil, Mexico and  ...

Racial Dot Map Plots Del Mar-Carmel Valley's Population

Racial Dot Map Plots Del Mar-Carmel Valley's Population That includes 175 residents of any race who identified their ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino . The city of San Diego reported a total population of 1,307,402 people ,  ...

Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County

Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County We believe that helping to rediscover and disseminate Boulder County's missing Latino history rises to such a level. We don't want people who have paid the  ...

Stop and think

Stop and think How people have come to regard the stop-and-frisk strategy being used by police in New York, a practice in which usually innocent black and Latino men and  ...

Poll: Racial inequality lingers in U.S.

Poll: Racial inequality lingers in U.S. Despite a heightened sense of racial progress immediately following the 2008 election of the first black president, Americans' views of black progress have  ...

Let's not play racial politics when the bigger problem is violent ...

Let's not play racial politics when the bigger problem is violent ... But most people do not step up because they fear exactly this kind of violent reprisal from the criminals -- some black, some white, some Hispanic and some of  ...

Reducing Racial Inequality in Our Justice System

Reducing Racial Inequality in Our Justice System ... mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders and seek smarter, more just approaches that reduce the racial disparities of our current system.

50 Years After 'Dream' It's Time For Black Churches To Lead on LGBT

50 Years After 'Dream' It's Time For Black Churches To Lead on LGBT Jennifer Leath earned her AB in Social Studies and African American Studies ... While they continue the trend of overemphasizing a black- gay dissonance and  ...

QFILMS REVIEW: 'Homeboy' Unabashedly Explores Gay Latino ...

QFILMS REVIEW: 'Homeboy' Unabashedly Explores Gay Latino ... The unapologetic documentary Homeboy is a film that shows—unabashedly, in your face—how love and identity are simultaneously forms of struggle and  ...

Is Obama Good for Black Americans?

Is Obama Good for Black Americans ? Buried in a New York Times story about the economy was this arresting statistic: Median family income for black Americans has declined a whopping 10.9  ...

Is African-American community disappointed with Obama?

Is African - American community disappointed with Obama? History will remember Barack Obama as America's first black president, but he has taken pains to ensure that race is an undertone, not a dominant theme of his  ...

African-American artists play in every style at the Afropunk Festival ...

African - American artists play in every style at the Afropunk Festival ... Their only bond? All are made up entirely, or mostly, of African - Americans , none of whom fit the stereotypes of archly commercial R&B, hip-hop or club music.

African Americans are more pessimistic about racial progress, poll ...

African Americans are more pessimistic about racial progress, poll ... African Americans are increasingly pessimistic that progress is being made toward achieving the vision of racial equality outlined by the Rev. Martin Luther King  ...

New intervention reduces risky sex among bisexual African ...

New intervention reduces risky sex among bisexual African ... The innovative approach, called Men of African American Legacy Empowering ... The rate of HIV/AIDS among African - Americans is significantly higher than it is  ...

What would compel a black American to move to Stalinist Russia?

What would compel a black American to move to Stalinist Russia? WASHINGTON — The oil painting of a black Russian man lay quietly for years in a back corner of an antique shop in a dingy walking mall in Moscow.

African-American Poverty Rates Linked to Eating Tasty Chicken ...

African - American Poverty Rates Linked to Eating Tasty Chicken ... A Republican State Senator in Colorado, speaking at a hearing on the causes of poverty, suggested that African - American poverty is related to health problems  ...

National Black Justice Coalition to host fourth annual Black LGBT ...

National Black Justice Coalition to host fourth annual Black LGBT ... NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay , bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people as it works to achieve the mission of  ...