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Texas GOP Reps to Introduce Bill to Ban LGBT Rights Laws

Texas GOP Reps to Introduce Bill to Ban LGBT Rights Laws  - The proposed legislation would also nix current existing laws and ordinances that protect LGBT people from discrimination. According to the Observer, ...

Research - non-inclusive workplaces have a negative impact on businesses

Research - non-inclusive workplaces have a negative impact on businesses  - A new study of 200 senior LGBT business figures highlights that non-inclusive workplaces have a negative impact on their employees and can ...

James Bond masters diversity as MI5 hailed as LGBT friendly employer

James Bond masters diversity as MI5 hailed as LGBT friendly employer  - Gay rights group Stonewall has put Her Majesty's Secret Service in its top 10 of most desirable employers for members of the LGBT community.

LGBT Community Stands Strong in Oscar Nominations

LGBT Community Stands Strong in Oscar Nominations  - Oscars The 2015 Academy Awards nominations, which were announced this morning, highlighted films and actors that have focused on LGBT  ...

Why is LGBT on the radar now in the c-suite?

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Why is LGBT on the radar now in the c-suite?  - I am very proud that Accenture is organizing an LGBT panel session at Davos – and, that I will be a participant! This is an exciting opportunity, and I'm ...

Southwest Missouri Hospitals Adding LGBT Protections

Southwest Missouri Hospitals Adding LGBT Protections  - Across Missouri healthcare policy is changing to include nondiscrimination protections to the LGBT community concerning healthcare.

Killing 'conversion' therapy a worthy LGBT goal

Killing 'conversion' therapy a worthy LGBT goal  - Currently the Human Rights Campaign is committed to supporting and championing the introduction of comprehensive LGBT civil rights legislation in ...

UK's first LGBT school planned for the Manchester

UK's first LGBT school planned for the Manchester  - Plans to open the first LGBT school in the UK are under way,with funding secured, and a site selected in Manchester. The school, which is being ...

Russia's Fictional Trans Driving Ban

Russia's Fictional Trans Driving Ban  - ILGA), the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, is a worldwide federation of LGBT organizations from 110 countries.

Bruce Jenner 'sex change' magazine cover is cruel bullying

 Bruce Jenner 'sex change' magazine cover is cruel bullying   - The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community is furious with InTouch magazine's ridiculous cover featuring Bruce Jenner ...

The Cities Where African-Americans Are Doing The Best Economically

The Cities Where African - Americans Are Doing The Best Economically  - In the first half of the 20 th century, African - Americans fled the former Confederate state for economic opportunity, to escape from institutional racism  ...

How to Make Media Coverage of Race a Force for Unity

How to Make Media Coverage of Race a Force for Unity   - In the 21st century, race is a far more amorphous problem. ... African - Americans , thanks to portrayals in entertainment and on the news, become ...

Stagnant Blackness and the Modern Race Drama

Stagnant Blackness and the Modern Race Drama  - That was the year that Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win ... But in terms of film and the racial representation therein, how do we ...

Facebook alliance with Colombia set to help the poor

Facebook alliance with Colombia set to help the poor  - Colombia will be the first country in Latin America and the fourth in the world after Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania to adopt Internet.org.

Why is it important for me to get a college Education?

Why is it important for me to get a college Education ?   - With my education I can help end laws that hurt the minorities in America . By me getting an education I can educate America on the problems that ...

Rebuilding the American middle class

Rebuilding the American middle class   - I will fight for new trade policies that end the outsourcing of American jobs. ... As a member of the Education Committee, I will do my best to make that ...

New Year's Resolutions for Higher Education

New Year's Resolutions for Higher Education  - On the carnival ride that has become the higher- education presidency in America , adhering to personal goals is sometimes easier said than done, 

Devaluing Education in America

Devaluing Education in America  -  Education in America is arguably one of the most contradictory institutions in existence. Teaching as a vocation is both under and over valued, ...

Poor” versus “low-income”: What term should we use?

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Poor” versus “low-income”: What term should we use?  - To my American ears, when I joined the organization, this sounded terrible. ... Something about it conveys the idea that poverty is immovable, like an ...

Why Pope rattles conservatives in America

Why Pope rattles conservatives in America  - Most Democrats haven't been talking about poverty . ... American church leaders have long been advocates for the poor and immigrants. But these are ...

Split Fortunes Stalk US Children in School as Inequality Waxes

Split Fortunes Stalk US Children in School as Inequality Waxes  - The opportunity divide that begins at birth is widening, reinforcing inequality as American children progress through school. Kids born to middle and ...

Health secretary urges Latinos to reduce health "disparity"

Health secretary urges Latinos to reduce health "disparity"  - At a press conference, Burwell said that some 2.6 million Latinos have ... She also said that 85 percent of the 7.1 million people who have enrolled ...

Obamacare officials, advocates target Latinos for enrollment

Obamacare officials, advocates target Latinos for enrollment  - It shows 3.4 million people selected plans using HealthCare.gov as of Dec. 15. ... They also discovered Hispanic adults in Texas have more difficulty ...

For black students at UC Berkeley, protests are about Ferguson — and their own lives

For black students at UC Berkeley, protests are about Ferguson — and their own lives  - In 2012, there were 874 African - American undergraduate students, about 3 percent of the total student body, according to a UC Berkeley diversity ... 

Drive-Bys Still Struggling with How Much Free Speech Should Be Tolerated

Drive-Bys Still Struggling with How Much Free Speech Should Be Tolerated  - If you want to be called Afro - American , they'll call you Afro - American . If you want to be called black, they'll call you black. If you want to be called ...