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Trump 'gave hate groups a megaphone': Gun sales surge among LGBT , minorities in the US - At a smoky firing range last weekend near Dallas, Evan Fowler, an openly gay college student with chunky glasses and a Human Rights Campaign ...

3 Ways the Trump Administration Aims to Erase LGBTQ Protections - While the Trump administration has yet to sign a specifically anti- LGBT piece of legislation, over the past few months it has authored a number of ...

LGBT groups 'lost the battle' on transgender bill repeal, ex-governor said - His Republican predecessor, though, said that the LGBT groups ''lost the battle'' and agreed with them that the measure did not eradicate the law ...

Tributes Across the World Honor Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker - At a time of great uncertainty in the LGBT community, Gilbert's act of sewing together multicolored materials unified and empowered individuals across ...

Will Democrats' split over HB2 replacement hurt the party in elections? - As soon as the deal became public Wednesday night, LGBT advocacy groups and Democrats blasted the Democratic governor on social media for ...

Equality California Denounces New North Carolina Law, Calls on NCAA to Continue Ban - “HB 142 continues to enshrine LGBT discrimination in North Carolina's laws and is totally unacceptable,” said Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality ...

North Carolina's Anti- LGBT Law Will Cost State More Than $3.76 Billion - Berger says, “We think the way to solve this issue is through the governor's proposal with Republican and Democratic votes”. Bill HB2 is the ...

Donald Trump Might Kill The Booming US Gun Industry - However despite sales dropping, thanks to Trump the country has seen an unprecedented rise in guns being bought by black and LGBT customers.

Let's Stop Doing the Race Dance and be Honest About how we Feel - This theory can explain why many Black people are hesitant to express their honest opinions and views about racism around white people.

How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed black America - Before World War I, African - American literature depicted stoic, but ... Alexander Crummell, literary black advocacy or racial uplift too often rested on this ...

Mexico's Largest Cement Company Says It Won't Build President Trump's Border Wall - When President Trump begins construction on the southern border wall, he won't have help from Mexico's largest cement company. "I want to be very ...

Trump's aggressive trade policies toward Mexico could be good for everyone but the US - Already, Mexico has entered talks with Argentina and Brazil for a possible deal on duty-free corn imports, a preemptive response to the Trump  ...

Will Mexico Be An Unlikely Winner Of The Trump Era? - We bring up the issue of bias because folks may intuitively think that Mexico will be dead money during a Trump Presidency. The country has been a ...

Most disapprove of Trump , except on economy - Most Americans disapprove of Donald Trump’s overall performance two months into his presidency. But they’re more upbeat about at least one critical area: his handling of the economy. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump’s overall performance, and about the same percentage say the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It was conducted amid the collapse of the GOP’s health care overhaul. But the poll also found a brighter spot for the businessman-politician on the economy, often a major driver of presidential success or failure. There, Americans split about evenly, with 50 percent approving and 48 percent disapproving of Trump’s efforts.

Trump is eyeing broad changes to US trade relationship with Canada, Mexico - The Trump administration on Thursday delivered a draft letter to Congress laying out America's priorities for renegotiating NAFTA.

The painting that has reopened wounds of American racism - Writer Gary Indiana called an open letter from Black, signed by more than two dozen other African American artists or art-world workers, “cliche-riddled ...