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Meet The Top 10 Foundations Giving to LGBT Causes

Meet The Top 10 Foundations Giving to LGBT Causes Some organizations have been throwing tens of millions of dollars at the LGBT community — least we can do is learn a little about them. In 2010, $72.6 in global  ...

The impact of Obamacare on the LGBT community: Watch live ...

The impact of Obamacare on the LGBT community: Watch live ... Despite the tremendous progress we've made in achieving equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) community, many LGBT individuals  ...

Glitter and Be Gay? Addressing the LGBT in Fashion

Glitter and Be Gay? Addressing the LGBT in Fashion Calvin Klein Ad As industries go, fashion may be the least closeted there is: No one can deny the massive impact made by men and women who identify as gay,  ...

The cost of the abbreviation “LGBT”

The cost of the abbreviation “ LGBT ” It's not a huge secret that I'm not a big fan of the ever-expanding abbreviation LGBT for what used to be the “gay” community. Once upon a time (the mid-199os,  ...

Almost 30 Percent of Panama City Office Space Empty

Almost 30 Percent of Panama City Office Space Empty Latin America added almost one million square meters of new construction during the first half of the year, with 700,000 square meters absorbed, leading to a 30  ...

Latin America's New Radical Environmentalism

Latin America's New Radical Environmentalism In the last few years, we have grown accustomed to seeing groups of farmers or rural dwellers setting up roadblocks and demonstrations, and even carrying out  ...

Miami Marlins and Lanugo join forces to support Latino children ...

Miami Marlins and Lanugo join forces to support Latino children ... The Miami Marlins joins Lanugo, the Miami-based Latino -oriented children's apparel line that raises awareness among the future generation of Latinos of their  ...

Latino Students Cannot Afford More Damage from High-Stakes ...

Latino Students Cannot Afford More Damage from High-Stakes ... If the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law were successful, next year we would celebrate reaching its goals. Among those goals is closing  ...

Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County

Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County Today, unless you're old enough to have had such images seared into your memory, it's hard to believe that such hurtful idiocy could ever have existed so  ...

Why Celebrating LGBT Latin@ Pride is Important

Why Celebrating LGBT Latin @ Pride is Important The alarming high rates of poverty , suicide, hatred, etc. happen in large numbers againt the LGBT Latino community and in communities of color, women, those  ...

Roundup: Nicaraguan roads, Panama metro Line 2, BCS education ...

Roundup: Nicaraguan roads, Panama metro Line 2, BCS education ... ... to the development of Latin America. Including news and insight from South America, Central America and the Caribbean, BNamericas includes Infrastructure  ...

Are Women in Costa Rica Better Educated Than Men?

Are Women in Costa Rica Better Educated Than Men? One of the goals behind Costa Rica's new country branding campaign is to showcase the high level of education of her people insofar as Latin America is  ...

More investment in infrastructure, education and social inclusion are ...

More investment in infrastructure, education and social inclusion are ... In spite of positive economic growth in recent years, the average level of education among Latin Americans has not improved nearly enough, noted Ernesto Talvi  ...

Mexico's risk premium lowest in Latin America

Mexico's risk premium lowest in Latin America Other Latin American countries such as Brazil and Argentina had a risk premium of 250 and 1,091 basis points, respectively, International Business Times  ...

Costa Rica ranks 12th in World Happiness Report

Costa Rica ranks 12th in World Happiness Report Of the 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean listed in the report, 16 showed a significance increase in happiness. Worldwide, 60 countries showed  ...

Study: Teach for America Recruits Help Student Math Scores

Study: Teach for America Recruits Help Student Math Scores adequately prepare their recruits to teach in high- poverty schools with many struggling students.

Training Young Jews To Speak Up For The Poor

Training Young Jews To Speak Up For The Poor A: Part of our job at Avodah is to do as much outreach as possible to remind people that poverty , a growing problem across every community in America ,  ...

Economic Opportunity, Not Government, Will Solve Racial Inequality

Economic Opportunity, Not Government, Will Solve Racial Inequality When the March on Washington took place in 1963, my mother was 23 years old and eight months pregnant with me. Dad was the same age. He had just put  ...

What happened to the war on poverty?

What happened to the war on poverty ? The President's remarks were heartfelt and meant to engage all Americans to an experience Black America continues  ...

Face of US poverty: These days, more poor live in suburbs than in ...

Face of US poverty : These days, more poor live in suburbs than in ... Suburbs are increasingly becoming the address of America's poor. Suburban poverty across the country grew 53 percent between 2000 and 2010, more than  ...

Bullying of Sikh, Asian students in New York schools doubles

Bullying of Sikh, Asian students in New York schools doubles NEW YORK: Bullying of Asian American students, including Sikhs, has nearly ... public schools in New York City, according to a report by two civil rights groups.

Film review: The Iran Job

Film review: The Iran Job At the film's start Kevin's outlook is very different from that of American Black athletes of the civil rights era, Muhammad Ali Clay, Jim Brown, Bill Russell.

Young's Film Highlights Civil Rights in Alabama

Young's Film Highlights Civil Rights in Alabama Young's Film Highlights Civil Rights in Alabama ... bring 100,000 African Americans to Washington to protest discrimination in federal employment and defense  ...

Poll: American public's concerns rise over surveillance programs ...

Poll: American public's concerns rise over surveillance programs ... Americans are divided on whether the government ought to prove its intelligence operations abide by civil rights protections. Fifty-one per cent of people polled  ...

Advocates battle surging HIV rates in Chicago

Advocates battle surging HIV rates in Chicago For gay white men, the rate of HIV infection is 16.8 percent. Among gay Hispanic men the rate is 12.5 percent. The rates among whites and blacks have risen  ...