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Chicago's LGBT community weighs meaning of gay marriage

Chicago's LGBT community weighs meaning of gay marriage  - Emily Trexler's excitement about the passage of Illinois gay marriage legislation goes beyond wanting to marry another woman someday. Her first concern is  ...

How many gay video game characters do we really need?

How many gay video game characters do we really need?  - Given my close friendships with five or six LGBT people, I've seen these issues up close and personal both during the good times and when it all goes to hell.

Report: Kentucky Improving Levels of Equality for LGBT Community

Report: Kentucky Improving Levels of Equality for LGBT Community  - The Human Rights Campaign released its second annual Municipal Equality Index, which examined laws and policies that foster LGBT equality in nearly 300  ...

Denver scores 99 out of 100 for LGBT equality, Boulder 87 and

Denver scores 99 out of 100 for LGBT equality, Boulder 87 and  - “Here in Colorado, state and city leaders are taking critical steps to protect LGBT Coloradans and their families,” said Jon Monteith, spokesman for One Colorado  ...

Haiti Protests Turn Violent, Demand President to Resign

Haiti Protests Turn Violent, Demand President to Resign  - Despite the massive amount of aid that poured into Haiti after the Earthquake in 2010, conditions on the ground remain dire and poverty is rampant.

Hearts for Haiti

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Hearts for Haiti  - With 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line and 54 percent in abject poverty , Haiti is an economic disaster. And with a sometimes bizarre mix of  ...

A new focus for USAID: Ending extreme poverty

A new focus for USAID: Ending extreme poverty  - For example, the link between improved health and more rapid poverty reduction is partial at best, but USAID should still build further on America's generosity in  ...

Greatest obstacles to evangelization are 'our own hearts'

Greatest obstacles to evangelization are 'our own hearts'  - He spoke of the crippling poverty that exists particularly in the southern part of America , such as in the slums of Brazil. “ Poverty is an acid that destroys human  ...

Vines: Raise minimum wage to help all Americans

Vines: Raise minimum wage to help all Americans  - Increasing the minimum wage would undoubtedly reduce poverty in America . If employers were required to pay at least $9 per hour, the incomes of millions of  ...

Dispatches from the War on Poverty

Dispatches from the War on Poverty  - Mike Lee disagrees with the popularly held belief that America's War on Poverty began with the announcement by President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly 50 years  ...

United Way to host a Poverty Simulation

United Way to host a Poverty Simulation  - United Way Executive Director Gladys Blackmore says the program was designed by United Way of America , to teach people what it is like to live in poverty   ...

Nintendo 'experimenting with Android tablet for education software'

Nintendo 'experimenting with Android tablet for education software'  - Nando Monterazo, a software engineer with Nintendo of America , claimed on Twitter ... Monterazo went on to say that some of the educational games will feature  ...

Teach For America Veteran Says The Experience Is Meant To Be ...

Teach For America Veteran Says The Experience Is Meant To Be ...  - Teach For America may have a respected, ambitious mission to reform education inequality, but the program is often criticised for its training and recruitment  ...

Building America's Next Generation Workforce

Building America's Next Generation Workforce  - The Youth CareerConnect grant program is designed to encourage America's school districts, institutions of higher education , the workforce investment system,  ...

Education Chief Apologizes for Insulting 'White Suburban Moms'

Education Chief Apologizes for Insulting 'White Suburban Moms'  - "Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has insulted the Moms of America and our children!" the site states. "This MAD group is intended to be a gathering place  ...

New Study: Men Have Bigger Noses Because of Bigger Bodies

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New Study: Men Have Bigger Noses Because of Bigger Bodies  - According to a new study, men have bigger noses than women by as much as 10 percent on average for people of European descent. Nathan Holton, assistant  ...

Mexico and Nicaragua Stand Out in Newest Prosperity Index, Yet ...

Mexico and Nicaragua Stand Out in Newest Prosperity Index, Yet ...  - The recently released Legatum Prosperity Index paints a picture of Latin ... are tempered by a sluggish performance in education , governance and security.

Poor education is threat to LatAm growth prospects, social stability

Poor education is threat to LatAm growth prospects, social stability  - Inadequate education across Latin America is a factor that undermines the region's longer term economic prospects, the fight against poverty as well as social  ...

Don Lemon Wins At Black People's Expense

Don Lemon Wins At Black People's Expense  - You would think one of the most-visible gay Black men in media would be fighting the stereotypes plaguing people like him and the collective community to  ...

Rash of black-on-white-violence confounds New York City's media ...

Rash of black -on-white-violence confounds New York City's media ...  - Could racism be motivating these black youths? ... The knockout game, however, was the subject of a lengthy American Thinker article by John T. Bennett way  ...

When Hollywood Movies Get 'Race-Themed' Into The Same Box

When Hollywood Movies Get ' Race -Themed' Into The Same Box  -  ... 87% of the audience was African American — would open in the high teens," ... comedy, is apparently a movie about " race " because it ain't about white folks.

Court reverses stays of execution for convicted serial killer

Court reverses stays of execution for convicted serial killer  - He was convicted of killing eight in the late 1970s and 1980s in racially motivated attacks around the country. The victims included two African - American men in  ...

Auburn citizens raise concerns over racial discrimination

Auburn citizens raise concerns over racial discrimination  - Turner is an African - American firefighter suing the Auburn Fire Department for alleged racial discrimination after he was demoted from lieutenant to firefighter.

JFK's 1963 Race Speech Made Him an African-American Icon

JFK's 1963 Race Speech Made Him an African - American Icon  - For African Americans , Kennedy remains an icon of the civil rights era. And in the imaginations of a generation of blacks who remember Jim Crow America,  ...

Jay Z Continues Barneys Collaboration With Strict Conditions

Jay Z Continues Barneys Collaboration With Strict Conditions  - Just last month the mogul rapper was heavily criticized for his collaboration with the high end store after two African American shoppers filed racial discrimination  ...