Entradas

Mostrando las entradas de diciembre 22, 2014

Buscar este blog:    Black America  Latin  LGBT+



LGBT couples celebrate one year of marriage

LGBT couples celebrate one year of marriage  - Music, hors d'oeuvres, and even wedding cake--those are 'luxuries' many LGBT couples lacked when they were married. "Love is what today is all ...

Ugandans won't be celebrating Christmas with new anti-gay law

Ugandans won't be celebrating Christmas with new anti-gay law  -  LGBT rights activists protest Uganda's anti-gay law in London in January after lawmakers passed an earlier version of the bill that was later overturned ...

Favorite Moments of 2014: Out Footballer Michael Sam Makes History

Favorite Moments of 2014: Out Footballer Michael Sam Makes History  - Michael Sam broke down barriers and paved the way for LGBT youth earlier this year when he became the first NCAA Division I football player to ...

New Report Shows the Hundreds of LGBT Murders in 15 Month Period

New Report Shows the Hundreds of LGBT Murders in 15 Month Period  - A report the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released on Wednesday indicates anti- LGBT violence claimed the lives of at least 594 ...

LDS Church clarifies it has not announced support for statewide LGBT non-discrimination bill

LDS Church clarifies it has not announced support for statewide LGBT non-discrimination bill  - that “beta” website was referring to related to the faith's support of a 2009 non-discrimination ordinance in Salt Lake City that included LGBT people.

The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives

The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives  - New York's LGBT Center, 31 years young, is undergoing a massive renovation. It has changed lives, and been the home of the most ...

Pride of place: New DIY minyan draws LGBT Orthodox Jews

Imagen
Pride of place: New DIY minyan draws LGBT Orthodox Jews  - The past decade has seen extraordinary progress in LGBT inclusion in the American Jewish community, mirroring increasingly widespread ...

Saving San Diego's LGBT historic sites

Saving San Diego's LGBT historic sites  - The Bernie Michels House is important to the LGBT community because it is where Bernard "Bernie" Michels began to think about organizing a center ...

Super Bowl 2015 host city signs on to LGBT-supportive 'Unity Pledge'

Super Bowl 2015 host city signs on to LGBT -supportive 'Unity Pledge'  - has signed on to a pledge reinforcing its support of the LGBT ... equal treatment in housing, employment and hospitality for LGBT people.

Studies Show Voters Can Be Swayed on Gay Marriage, Abortion

Studies Show Voters Can Be Swayed on Gay Marriage, Abortion  - The LGBT community here was incredibly demoralized, furious and unsure about what to do because it was such a shock to lose,” Fleischer says.

Across America briefs

Across America briefs  - Students in poverty are outperforming students that are African- American . If you're African- American and you're in poverty , you have a double dip.”.

The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years

Imagen
The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years  - Few institutions in America have evolved over the last 50 years quite like ... of fatherless black children in America would struggle to escape poverty .

China must switch to low-carbon investment in Latin America

China must switch to low-carbon investment in Latin America  - All countries , including those from Latin America and China, are invited to put forward their 'intended nationally determined contributions' by March ...

Haitian Parliament on shaky ground

Haitian Parliament on shaky ground  - But the extreme poverty and the instability seem to always be the constants ... While the protests haven't directly affected operations in Cap Haitian , ...

Microsoft reaches Latin America and the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale base

Microsoft reaches Latin America and the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale base  - For Microsoft, Latin America is a highly relevant region where we focus on ... communities and government agencies, improve education and create jobs. “We have been doing business in Latin America and the Caribbean for almost ...

African-Americans, Latinos struggle with health care access

African-Americans, Latinos struggle with health care access  -  We are seeing a better trend now with national wellness care, but people ... Damiano said individuals in certain racial groups, such as Latinos and ...

Lessons to be learned from Latinos with dream jobs in tech

Lessons to be learned from Latinos with dream jobs in tech  - For Latino millennials, they sometimes seem unobtainable. The numbers ... The future of programming is in people with hybrid skills. It's the biologist ...

Two NYPD cops get killed and 'wartime' police blame the protesters. Have we learned nothing?

Two NYPD cops get killed and 'wartime' police blame the protesters. Have we learned nothing?  - America's nightmare of violence and racism got upended in New York City on ... This time, the bloody violence was clear, and the social-media threat ... Asian officer and a Hispanic officer of the New York Police Department (NYPD), ...

White Christmas, Black Christmas

Imagen
White Christmas, Black Christmas  - This week, approximately nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas, in a wide variety of ways. Among Christians, the two groups who share the most in their approach to Christmas celebrations are white and minority evangelical Protestants.

Police Killings Intensify Racial Debate

Police Killings Intensify Racial Debate  - It amounts to an intensification of an us-against-them atmosphere, with African - Americans protesting police brutality, and police officers and their ...

What if American Jews faced the African-American experience in 2014?

What if American Jews faced the African - American experience in 2014?  - Just ask why there's still racial tension in 2014 America, and compare aspects of Jewish history to the African - American experience. You'll see that the ...

US racial justice quest comes full circle in Selma

US racial justice quest comes full circle in Selma  - DuVernay, an African - American woman – a rarity among Hollywood movie directors – calls the timing jaw-dropping. “We were here talking about the ...

Solving race inequities through education

Solving race inequities through education  - The larger context includes decades of mistreatment of African Americans and people of color, including racial profiling and disparate treatment in the ...

The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America

The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America  - Dow discovered he had his own issues with race this when he and his frequent collaborator, African - American director Marco Williams, spoke to a ...

Transformation zone' centers on Latino children

Transformation zone' centers on Latino children  - A state Latino group is proposing to make Southeast Rochester into a .... Most people there don't know a Latino to begin with, so they judge by what ...