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A Gay in the Life: Rick Aguilar

A Gay in the Life: Rick Aguilar  - Aguilar has volunteered his photography services for the LGBT community quite often, be it photographing the March on Springfield last fall or ...

First couple to adopt looks back

First couple to adopt looks back  - Relatively few people in Illinois may know it, but many of the state's families headed by LGBT parents owe a debt of thanks to Elizabeth Strum and ...

Bayside To Team Up With HRC And Equality Rocks For LGBT Pride T-Shirt

Bayside To Team Up With HRC And Equality Rocks For LGBT Pride T-Shirt  - Alternative rockers Bayside have teamed up with the Human Rights Campaign, the biggest civil rights organization in America for LGBT equality, and ...

Will Congress take up a comprehensive LGBT rights bill?

Will Congress take up a comprehensive LGBT rights bill?  - A new idea is gaining traction for advancing LGBT rights after controversy over the stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act: a comprehensive ...

US: Former Florida Governor promises to ban LGBT discrimination if elected

US: Former Florida Governor promises to ban LGBT discrimination if elected  - Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced last Tuesday that he will sign five executive orders benefiting the LGBT community on his first day ...

Obama Urged to Address LGBT Rights in Africa

Obama Urged to Address LGBT Rights in Africa  - Four countries—Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan—allow for the death penalty against LGBT people in parts or in all of the country. Cameroon ...

15 ways to reduce barriers for the LGBT community

15 ways to reduce barriers for the LGBT community  - A panel of experts recently presented "Resources for Culturally Appropriate Integrated Services for LGBT Individuals" as part of the SAMHSA HRSA ...

Hotline Miami Publisher Comes to LGBT Gaming Convention's Rescue After NIS America Pulls Out

Hotline Miami Publisher Comes to LGBT Gaming Convention's Rescue After NIS America Pulls Out  - Hotline Miami publisher, Devolver Digital, has decided to step in to rescue LGBT gaming convention, GaymerX, after its original sponsor NIS America ...

Human Rights First and HRC Foundation Release Joint Report on Human Rights for LGBT Africans

Human Rights First and HRC Foundation Release Joint Report on Human Rights for LGBT Africans  - Heads of state from 32 of the 37 nations in Africa that criminalize LGBT relationships have been invited to the summit. Ugandan President Yoweri ..

LGBT rights defenders receive death threats in northern Colombia

LGBT rights defenders receive death threats in northern Colombia  - The systematic violence against Colombia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans ( LGBT ) population has worsened in recent years, according to a recent ...

49% Believe Government Programs Increase Poverty in America

49% Believe Government Programs Increase Poverty in America  - Most Americans still believe current government anti- poverty programs have no impact on poverty in this country or actually increase it.

A Real Anti-Poverty Program: Stop Amnesty

A Real Anti- Poverty Program: Stop Amnesty  - It is now all the fashionable rage in Washington, D.C., to proclaim solidarity with America's working poor in front of the cameras — while stabbing them ...

97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."

97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."  - 97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states. ... policies" are causing poverty is too subjective a question to be fact-checked, we ...

A new wave of Latin Americans is invading Miami – and they're bringing in wealth

A new wave of Latin Americans is invading Miami – and they're bringing in wealth  - Cuban-Americans, who have dominated the Hispanic community for ... part benefiting from the political or economic crises in Latin American countries .

Serious weakness' that Colombia does not collect data by race and ethnicity: Expert

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Serious weakness' that Colombia does not collect data by race and ethnicity: Expert  - Colombia’s lack of data regarding their sizable racial and ethnic minority populations are “critical omissions” that makes it difficult to track socioeconomic development and progress, said the lead author of an annual study that came out on Tuesday.

Chinese artist lauds LatAm art

Chinese artist lauds LatAm art  - Chinese artist Yuan Xikun voiced his admiration of Latin American art ... cultural exchanges between China and countries in Central America and the ...

Starbuck: Want to stop illegal immigration? Then make Central America safer

Starbuck: Want to stop illegal immigration? Then make Central America safer  - Immigration is news. Many Latin Americans , many of them children, many of them unaccompanied are entering the country . Why? Why so many, why ...

Haiti surfers aim to turn tourism tide

Haiti surfers aim to turn tourism tide  -  Haiti , a country known for having one of the highest poverty rates in the world, is still struggling to recover from a massive earthquake in 2010 that ...

What do 'social inclusion' rankings tell us about the child migrant crisis?

What do 'social inclusion' rankings tell us about the child migrant crisis?  - For the third year, America's Quarterly has ranked Latin American countries and the United States based on social inclusion, sifting through multiple ...

Christian Scott review – African-American roots, vividly contemporary

Christian Scott review – African - American roots, vividly contemporary  - Though Christian Scott digs deep into his African - American roots (nowadays he prefers the name Christian aTunde Adjuah), the 31-year-old New ...

Abused Elkhart woman finds freedom though new program

Abused Elkhart woman finds freedom though new program  - Hill says finding undocumented immigrants isn't what Hispanic domestic violence outreach is about. "We're hoping this program brings some of those ...

Latinos Stand to Gain from Obama's Action on Immigration

Latinos Stand to Gain from Obama's Action on Immigration  - The list of recommendations that the Hispanic caucus provided Obama, if all the actions are taken, could assist about half of the people in the U.S. ...

Bold New Book, Raising Supaman, Dispels Myths About African American Fathers

Bold New Book, Raising Supaman, Dispels Myths About African American Fathers  - In a time when the African American community is often associated with negative statistics, a thought-provoking new book, Raising Supaman,

Tobacco use target of government surveys

Tobacco use target of government surveys  - The US Census Bureau is currently collecting data about tobacco use as a voluntary supplement to its monthly July 2014 Current Population Survey.

Remaining Uninsured Californians Are Harder To Reach, Health Care Nonprofit Warns

Remaining Uninsured Californians Are Harder To Reach, Health Care Nonprofit Warns  - even bigger challenges in reaching those people , particularly Latinos , according to a survey released Tuesday by a national health policy nonprofit.