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Big Business May Help Defeat Anti-LGBT Bills This Session

Big Business May Help Defeat Anti- LGBT Bills This Session  - Pocketbook issues -- and the chance to bring the Final Four or the Super Bowl to Houston -- may actually drive a stake in the heart of anti-gay ...

Why We Still Need LGBT Labels

Why We Still Need LGBT Labels  - We must declare ourselves, each and every one, as a member of the LGBT community so that future generations won't need to. We must wear proudly ...

Op-ed: Can a Hate Crime Occur Within the LGBT Community?

Op-ed: Can a Hate Crime Occur Within the LGBT Community?  - Although we in the United States are a population of LGBT people, we aren't truly a community in the sense of bonding through shared experiences, ...

Gay Wedding Economic Impact: Wedding Industry Embraces LGBT Ceremonies Amid 'Anti-LGBT ...

Gay Wedding Economic Impact: Wedding Industry Embraces LGBT Ceremonies Amid 'Anti- LGBT ...  - For the wedding industry, LGBT ceremonies are an opportunity to make up for losses in other areas. Gay weddings are "not going to save your ...

9 Places LGBT Youth are Definitely Welcome in Indiana and Arkansas

9 Places LGBT Youth are Definitely Welcome in Indiana and Arkansas  - many important people and businesses have voiced their support for the LGBT community in the form of public statements, ...

The rich have bought America's silence

The rich have bought America's silence  - Not long ago I was asked to speak to a religious congregation about widening inequality . Shortly before I began, the head of the congregation asked ...

Tax credits as a tool to escape poverty

Tax credits as a tool to escape poverty  - Throughout America's history, the federal tax code and frequently shifting tax ... keep more than eight million Americans above the federal poverty line.

How low wages hurt families and perpetuate poverty

How low wages hurt families and perpetuate poverty  -  Poverty -level wages not only mean that workers live in poverty ; they also have a ... While more has been written about the flagging American Dream of ...

Ferguson's city council is now half African American: Will things change?

Ferguson's city council is now half African American : Will things change?  - With black residents comprising 67 percent of Ferguson's population, the new council will more accurately represent the city's racial demographic.

White officer charged with murder of unarmed African American

White officer charged with murder of unarmed African American  - Another African American man died at the hands of the police last Saturday. ... The more police killings, the more racial disparities in the country and ...

Why Mindy Kaling's brother posed as black to get into med school

Why Mindy Kaling's brother posed as black to get into med school  - Chokal-Ingam says he experienced racism daily while posing as an African - American man. “I would walk into Mr. G's market where I'd shopped for ...

Latino workers file discrimination lawsuit

Latino workers file discrimination lawsuit  - For them (SME) to treat people this way is unacceptable," said Kass ... to make sure their supervisors don't harass people and they didn't do that.”

Harry Reids Racial Hypocrisy

Harry Reids Racial Hypocrisy  - In the last ten years or so, Reid has constantly depicted Republicans as anti- Latino and himself as a savior for beleaguered brown people . Granted ...

Gringolandia: Latino Migrant Experience Served Up with Laughs

Gringolandia: Latino Migrant Experience Served Up with Laughs  - These misconceptions and uncertainties are only amplified when people ... Guy friend Bryan is hostile to the Latino interloper until Peter brings out a ...

Who's to say Jeb Bush isn't really Hispanic?

Who's to say Jeb Bush isn't really Hispanic ?  - Hispanics or Latinos are those people who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic , or Latino categories listed on the Census ...

Growing Latino population bring changes in small town mid-Missouri

Growing Latino population bring changes in small town mid-Missouri  - Audrain County experienced a 252 percent increase in the Latino population from 2000 to 2010, according to the last U.S. Census. “There are people  ...

For Colombia's Gay Couples, The Struggle For Same-Sex Marriage, Adoption Rights Continues

For Colombia's Gay Couples, The Struggle For Same-Sex Marriage, Adoption Rights Continues   - Albarracin said notable gains had been made on gay rights in parts of Latin America with Argentina and Uruguay leading the way. Central America ...

Obama to meet Latin American leaders ami ...

Obama to meet Latin American leaders ami ...  - The young, the wealthy and those with more education tend to hold more pro-American sentiment in most Latin American nations surveyed. In Peru ...

Imagine a Coalition Unifying Black Lives Matter, LGBT Equality, and the Fight for a Living Wage.

Imagine a Coalition Unifying Black Lives Matter, LGBT Equality, and the Fight for a Living Wage.  - Silos are dangerous. I'm not talking about the kind that house nuclear missiles, but rather the metaphorical kind, the kind that divide people who could ...

The Summit of the Americas Must Focus on Economic Inequality

The Summit of the Americas Must Focus on Economic Inequality  - Inequality and poverty go hand in hand. And extreme inequality threatens to roll back gains in reducing regional poverty . It's no coincidence that Latin  ...

Millennials Overwhelmingly Support Comprehensive LGBT Nondiscrimination Protections

Millennials Overwhelmingly Support Comprehensive LGBT Nondiscrimination Protections  - Millennial support for LGBT nondiscrimination legislation that covers ... Majorities of African American Millennials, white Millennials, and Hispanic ...

Black gay boys and dreams of a future

Black gay boys and dreams of a future  -  Black gay boys are forbidden to dream and forbidden to desire. ... Or we'd suggest other gay people we knew, just to start the conversation. At some ...

Latin America's wake-up call on global school tests

Latin America's wake-up call on global school tests   -There have been concerns that the quality of education has been stagnant in too many countries across Latin America. This is a major problem in a ...

Native American ancestry leads to complexity in 5-HTTLPR polymorphism association studies

Native American ancestry leads to complexity in 5-HTTLPR polymorphism association studies  - However, commonly, the 'Latino' classification is used to categorize distinct Latin American populations, not considering the strong degree of genetic ...

How to Navigate Business Meetings in Latin America

How to Navigate Business Meetings in Latin America  - Spanish is the native language in most of Latin America , but it is spoken ... There are many quirks that set each Latin American country apart.