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Alec Baldwin, and the 'militant, media-based gay community'

Alec Baldwin, and the 'militant, media-based gay community'  - Has actor Alec Baldwin been treated unfairly by LGBT organizations and their supporters? I think there might be a case to be made for that line of thought, as Ian  ...

Floridians Fight for LGBT Workplace Rights

Floridians Fight for LGBT Workplace Rights  - 7 landmark victory bans workplace discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered ( LGBT ) community who have been on the  ...

Floridians Fight for LGBT Workplace Rights

Floridians Fight for LGBT Workplace Rights  - 7 landmark victory bans workplace discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered ( LGBT ) community who have been on the  ...

Video of LGBTQ Homeless Connect online now

Video of LGBTQ Homeless Connect online now  - This Connect in October was planned after last summer's biennial homeless count showed that 29 percent of San Francisco' 6,436 homeless people are LGBT ,  ...

Pune's third gay pride parade: Police distribute roses to participants

Pune's third gay pride parade: Police distribute roses to participants  - Pride parades for the LGBT community (also known as pride marches, gay pride parades) are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT )  ...

Queer-liberal: Toronto LGBT theatre's Rhubarb Festival inexplicably ...

Queer-liberal: Toronto LGBT theatre's Rhubarb Festival inexplicably ...  - Toronto LGBT theatre's Rhubarb Festival inexplicably loses funding from the Harper government. After many years of support from the federal Department of  ...

LGBT equality index puts Champaign in middle of Illinois cities ...

LGBT equality index puts Champaign in middle of Illinois cities ...  - CHAMPAIGN — The city scores roughly in the middle in Illinois when it comes to equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in town,  ...

Project to prepare black students for college

Project to prepare black students for college  - Riverside Unified School District wants more African - American students to take all the college-prep high school classes needed to apply to UC or Cal State and  ...

Shannon Harkins, the face of African American ballet dancers' struggle

Shannon Harkins, the face of African American ballet dancers' struggle  - Scan the rosters of the nation's top companies and African American dancers are rare, while African American ballerinas are nearly nonexistent. The American  ...

African-American Girl Won't Be Expelled for Her Hair

African - American Girl Won't Be Expelled for Her Hair  - A 12-year-old African - American girl who said she was threatened with expulsion from an Orlando, Fla., private school unless she made changes to the look of  ...

Mostly White University of Alabama Sorority Names Its First African ...

Mostly White University of Alabama Sorority Names Its First African ...  - Mobile, AL--A mostly white University of Alabama sorority recently elected its first African - American president, according to local affiliate WBRC. Hannah  ...

Interview: Latin America's dynamic Palestinian communities

Interview: Latin America's dynamic Palestinian communities  - There is no single Latin American country where one cannot find Palestinians, but Chile and Honduras are by far the first in terms of numbers, with at least  ...

Mexico's booming car industry selling unsafe cars

Mexico's booming car industry selling unsafe cars  - Vehicles destined to stay in Mexico or go south to the rest of Latin America carry a ... to the latest available data from the country's transportation department.

Latin America apparent finished steel use reaches 50 million tonnes ...

Latin America apparent finished steel use reaches 50 million tonnes ...  - Between January and October, Latin America produced 47.5 million tonnes of ... Argentina (27%) and colombia (25%) were the countries that incremented their  ...

MILA market planning simultaneous IPOs among member countries

MILA market planning simultaneous IPOs among member countries  - Initial public offerings launched in one of the countries forming part of the region's ... Including news and insight from South America , Central America and the  ...

There is a lot that is good about Chilean higher education

There is a lot that is good about Chilean higher education  - "The Chilean population has 11.6 years of schooling, against 9.4 in the rest of Latin America ; 28.6 % of people complete at least one year of tertiary education   ...

Shining light on our assumptions

Shining light on our assumptions  - SAN DIEGO – When we talk about improving public education in America , should we mention race and ethnicity? Here's a better question: If we're honest about  ...

Latinos Want US to Sue Over LA Supervisors' Board

Latinos Want US to Sue Over LA Supervisors' Board  - Nearly half the 10 million people in the nation's largest county are Latino . But political boundaries redrawn in 2011 make it possible for Latino voters to elect just  ...

Poverty in California

Poverty in California  - Almost one-third of California's 15m Latinos live in poverty . Two-thirds of Latino adults have a high-school diploma at best, compared with 26% of whites and  ...

San Jose State racist bullying is no prank, kids

San Jose State racist bullying is no prank, kids  - But when the African American student carried out his own prank by taking a pet ... Add a twinge of racial slurs and you have all the ingredients of a hate crime.

Criticizing Obama Isn't Racist

Criticizing Obama Isn't Racist  - As Americans participate in the post-Thanksgiving rite of passage known as ... a “sellout to my race ” and tell me to my face that black Republicans are nothing  ...

Black NFL players arrested nearly 10 times as often as whites

Black NFL players arrested nearly 10 times as often as whites  - A police officer in Cincinnati watched a large black man get into his car and turn on the engine after being told it was illegally parked. The officer thought the man  ...

No, Oprah, it isn't racist

No, Oprah, it isn't racist  -  ... of disrespect for the office that occurs … because he's African American ,” she ... But the idea of discriminating on the basis of race simply made no sense to my  ...

Ruben Navarrette: Arne Duncan's moment of truth

Ruben Navarrette: Arne Duncan's moment of truth  - SAN DIEGO — When we talk about improving public education in America , should we mention race and ethnicity? Here's a better question: If we're honest about  ...

Thanksgiving in America – Shocking Poverty and New Records for ...

Thanksgiving in America – Shocking Poverty and New Records for ...  - This year's Thanksgiving holiday, coming more than five years after the Wall Street crash, highlights the devastating impact of mass unemployment and budget  ...