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Growing Contagion of Anti-LGBT Hate

Growing Contagion of Anti- LGBT Hate  - The contagion of anti- LGBT hate appears to be quickly spreading across Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Beginning as early as 2006, ...

Do LGBT-Friendly Policies Hurt a Company's Bottom Line?

Do LGBT -Friendly Policies Hurt a Company's Bottom Line?  - It's been a year of milestones for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) community. Marriage equality is now legal in 19 states; in May ...

Colorado high schools working to welcome LGBT student athletes

Colorado high schools working to welcome LGBT student athletes  - And while acceptance of gay athletes is increasing nationally, officials in Colorado are working to create more acceptance of LGBT high school ...

Is San Diego the New Home of LGBT Activism?

Is San Diego the New Home of LGBT Activism?  - Most people think of New York's 1969 Stonewall riots as the flashpoint that launched the modern LGBT rights movement. But demonstrations — and ...

South Africans Concerned About Government Supporting LGBT in UN Resolution

South Africans Concerned About Government Supporting LGBT in UN Resolution  - its international obligations with regard to LGBTI human rights since 2011,” commented Dawie Nel, Director of OUT, the LGBT health and well-being ...

10 Things You Might Not Have Known About the Anti-LGBT Family Research Council

10 Things You Might Not Have Known About the Anti- LGBT Family Research Council  - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has deemed the organization an anti- LGBT hate group and the Summit has been condemned frequently ...

3 Reasons This Is the Moment to Pass an LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill

3 Reasons This Is the Moment to Pass an LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill  - Sorry friends, but there won't be any hate crimes legislation coming out of Harrisburg this year – not even with the groundswell of support created by ...

10 LGBT Films Every (Gay or) Straight Person Should Watch

10 LGBT Films Every (Gay or) Straight Person Should Watch  - With Pride, a film about gay and lesbian activists who come to the aide of families affected by the 1984 UK miners' strike, storming into theaters with ...

LGBT Inequality in Serbia

LGBT Inequality in Serbia  - In South Carolina, there is no legal recognition of same-sex relationships, there are no hate crime protections, and LGBT individuals can still be fired ...

Thirty-Five Largest U.S. Cities Saw Increase in Child Poverty Rate Between 2005 and 2013

Thirty-Five Largest U.S. Cities Saw Increase in Child Poverty Rate Between 2005 and 2013  - The 2013 American Community Survey (ACS) data show the first decline in the national child poverty rate since it began to rise in 2008. Although ...

Why Education Trumps Poverty in "Schools That Work"

Why Education Trumps Poverty in "Schools That Work"  - For low-income students, the problem is poverty . ... In America , the Catholic Church built its role and reach by creating thousands of parish schools in ...

One in four: North Carolina's child poverty rate remains the highest among all age groups

One in four: North Carolina's child poverty rate remains the highest among all age groups  - Children face the highest poverty rate in North Carolina compared to other age ... Both are indicators of poverty's tight grasp on America's and North ...

100 Years of Black Poster Art

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100 Years of Black Poster Art  - As well as presenting a timeline of African - American cinema, the posters highlight cultural differences in attitudes towards race . Designs from Europe ...

Eagles have more white players, fewer African-American players than any other team in NFL

Eagles have more white players, fewer African - American players than any other team in NFL  - The Eagles went through racial turbulence in training camp last season ... 20 players identifying themselves as white and 30 as African - American .

These Are The Barriers Black Girls Face In School

These Are The Barriers Black Girls Face In School  -  African - American females also are more likely to face sexual harassment in school ... African - American girls are less likely than white girls to participate in ... lower grade-point averages than girls from any other racial or ethnic group, ...

Lawsuit Alleges Racial Discrimination In UW Link Light Rail Project

Lawsuit Alleges Racial Discrimination In UW Link Light Rail Project  - According to a new class-action lawsuit filed in US District Court, African American workers involved in the construction of the UW Sound Transit Link ...

Obama's election did not improve race relations

Obama's election did not improve race relations  - For example, only 6 percent of voters in battleground election states this fall say race relations have improved under the first African - American  ...

How Bill Clinton oversells his rescue of Haiti

How Bill Clinton oversells his rescue of Haiti  - Sometimes, though, even the master oversells, as he did last week recalling his efforts to lift the poor people of Haiti out of poverty and grant them the ...

More Than Two-Thirds Of Serious Violent Crime Victims Experienced Socio-Emotional Problems

More Than Two-Thirds Of Serious Violent Crime Victims Experienced Socio-Emotional Problems  - Regardless of the type of violence , a greater percentage of victims of ... A similar percentage of non- Hispanic whites (57 percent), non- Hispanic blacks ...

Atlanta Cyclorama to host panel on gay relationships during Civil War

Atlanta Cyclorama to host panel on gay relationships during Civil War  - The anti- gay policy of “Don't Ask Don't Tell” wasn't the beginning of a ... Dr. Leslie M. Harris is associate professor of History and African American  ...

Daniel King commended for his district's work on Latino education

Daniel King commended for his district's work on Latino education  - The most important thing that's going to happen today already happened — that is, you've heard from the people who are changing lives on the ...

Embracing my once ignored heritage

Embracing my once ignored heritage  - Because I am mixed race, in many ways, I was just like all the other black and Latino people in my community. In a lot of ways, however, I wasn't.

Poor supports Brazil's president in re-election

Poor supports Brazil's president in re-election  - poorest people because of generous welfare programs that have helped slash hunger and extreme poverty under the watch of her Workers Party.

Latin America's Fast Disappearing Consumer Boom

Latin America's Fast Disappearing Consumer Boom   - Betting on Latin America's booming middle class doesn't look like such a ... services helped pulled millions from Mexico to Argentina out of poverty .

Parsing Pew: Did gay-marriage foes' row just get tougher to hoe?

Parsing Pew: Did gay -marriage foes' row just get tougher to hoe?  - Among whites, just 32 percent oppose gay marriage, while half support it. Hispanic Catholics favor same-sex marriage by 55 percent--29 percent are ...