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Gay Rights Will Lead To Human Extinction, According To FRC ...

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Gay Rights Will Lead To Human Extinction, According To FRC ...  - As Right Wing Watch first reported, Perkins suggested that LGBT rights (specifically, same-sex marriage) would inevitably lead to human extinction to 

27 Nobel Laureates Protest Russian Gay 'Propaganda' Law

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27 Nobel Laureates Protest Russian Gay 'Propaganda' Law  - Recent legislation marginalizing gays and lesbians has spawned a rise in homophobia in Russia. But it has also sparked a small backlash as a  ...

Op-ed: What Is Hollywood Still So Scared Of?

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Op-ed: What Is Hollywood Still So Scared Of?  - While visibility of queer characters may be at an all-time high, Hollywood's reaction to LGBT -centric films proves homophobia lurks somewhere behind  ...

Chemistry department 'safe and supportive' for LGBT students ...

Chemistry department 'safe and supportive' for LGBT students ...  - The chemistry department has been described as a “safe and supportive” place for LGBT students in a survey conducted by a professor in the  ...

Affordable housing for gay seniors opens in Pa.

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Affordable housing for gay seniors opens in Pa.  - Although anti-discrimination laws prohibit gay-only housing, buildings can be made LGBT -friendly through marketing and location. The $19.5 million  ...

We mustn't abandon the war on poverty

We mustn't abandon the war on poverty  - Wisconsin also experiences extreme economic disparities based on race: 38% of African- American Wisconsinites live in poverty , compared to 10% of  ...

Poverty is America's greatest problem

Poverty is America's greatest problem  - Only Romania rivals the U.S. in the percentage of children who live in poverty . About 23 percent of American children live in households whose  ...

Big employers must tackle the war on poverty

Big employers must tackle the war on poverty  - In hopes of capturing the Latino vote, they brought out Cuban- American ... This we-want-to-fix- poverty weather balloon could endear Republicans to  ...

Blue Rubicon awarded international anti-poverty brief

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Blue Rubicon awarded international anti- poverty brief  - An international foundation that fights poverty and Aids has called in Blue ... in multiple territories including North America , Scandinavia and Europe.

Fifty years after war on poverty began, we have more poor than ever

Fifty years after war on poverty began, we have more poor than ever  - “They're doing the jobs Americans won't do.” – a common argument supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants. “I can't name a time where I met an  ...

Worth Repeating: Poverty, Not Pot Will Kill Your IQ

Worth Repeating: Poverty , Not Pot Will Kill Your IQ  - But living in crushing poverty with shitty schools and awful, boring jobs definitely does. Scientific American reported on a study in Proceedings of the  ...

Alan Weiss: America can be strong and fight poverty

Alan Weiss: America can be strong and fight poverty  - There's an old joke about academics' lack of pragmatism that includes an economist answering a challenge about eating on a deserted island with,  ...

Paul Krugman: Republicans are “enemies of America's poor”

Paul Krugman: Republicans are “enemies of America's poor”  - Paul Ryan are talking a lot lately about helping America's poor. ... Yet while Krugman is extremely critical of the GOP's position on anti- poverty   ...

MLK youth luncheon will inform, entertain

MLK youth luncheon will inform, entertain  - The luncheon is hosted annually by the Natchez Association for the Preservation of Afro - American Culture (NAPAC). Along with a delicious lunch, this  ...

3 quick questions 7

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3 quick questions 7  - Possessing lots of cultural and quotidian interests from armchair discography to African drumming to surfing and hunting across America   ...

Grant will highlight DC's African American history

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Grant will highlight DC's African American history  - D.C.'s black history will come together this spring, as researchers piece together texts, images and videos documenting the city's African American   ...

Brown University jazz band to perform in Cuba

Brown University jazz band to perform in Cuba  - The trip is sponsored by Brown's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the music department. Fourteen undergraduate musicians and  ...

Not a Single Girl Took the AP Computer Science Test in Mississippi ...

Not a Single Girl Took the AP Computer Science Test in Mississippi ...  - No African- Americans , Hispanics or girls took the AP computer science exam ... meaning a majority of The Next America has little familiarity with tech. ... compiled the data, told the blog Education Week, and those schools tend to be  ...

Speakers oppose Common Core education standards

Speakers oppose Common Core education standards  - “Confronting the Common Core,” presented by Concerned Women for America of Georgia in partnership with the American Principles Project,  ...

Farmers can nominate their school districts for up to $25000 in grants

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Farmers can nominate their school districts for up to $25000 in grants  - The America's Farmers Grow Rural Education program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, is once again gearing up to help rural school districts by  ...

Blaming Peronism For All That's Broken In Argentina

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Blaming Peronism For All That's Broken In Argentina  - Argentina's former Minister of Education Susana Decibe asks if 'Peronism' — that brand of Latin American politics named after the 20th century  ...

Obamacare Sign Ups See Fewer Young People Than Older ...

Obamacare Sign Ups See Fewer Young People Than Older ...  - 15 and targeted outreach by sororities and fraternities, as well as Voto Latino , which focuses on Hispanic youth. But even if the age mix remains tilted  ...

Haiti shows concrete progress four years after devastating earthquake

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Haiti shows concrete progress four years after devastating earthquake  - PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - During his annual speech to parliament on ... tourism infrastructure and the fight against corruption and extreme poverty ,  ...

CeCe is Free But So Much Work Remains

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CeCe is Free But So Much Work Remains  - CeCe McDonald, now 25, is a Black , transgender woman who was walking with ... Sadly, the story of LGBT people of color facing criminal charges for  ...

Resource Center receives grant from Elton John foundation

Resource Center receives grant from Elton John foundation  - The grant will support existing services including a monthly social support group for Latino gay and bisexual men, Spanish language prevention  ...