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Virginians leading LGBT equality efforts to be recognized by Equality Virginia

Virginians leading LGBT equality efforts to be recognized by Equality Virginia  - The Commonwealth Dinner is Virginia's largest gathering for the lgbt community and supporters. This year will feature critically acclaimed actress and  ...

UK study on treatment of LGBT elderly in nursing homes is worrisome

UK study on treatment of LGBT elderly in nursing homes is worrisome  - Elderly Researchers at the University of Manchester and University of Nottingham in Great Britain studied attitudes toward LGBT residents by staff in  ...

Gay BC Mountie feels he was forced out for his activism against bullying of LGBT youth

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Gay BC Mountie feels he was forced out for his activism against bullying of LGBT youth  - Tad Milmine has absolutely no doubt that he was saving the lives of children. In the Surrey RCMP he had his dream job, and outside work he was  ...

City Stonewalling Landmark Designation Of LGBT Sites

City Stonewalling Landmark Designation Of LGBT Sites  - are widely recognized around the world as the start of the modern LGBT Rights movement and refocused the Village as a center of cultural and  ...

Lithuania 'Homosexual Propaganda' Bill Fails to Progress

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Lithuania 'Homosexual Propaganda' Bill Fails to Progress  - The bill would ban gay pride parades, public speeches on LGBT support, LGBT materials and audio-visual media to promote LGBT rights. Those who  ...

European Parliament adopts new data protection laws protecting LGBT people

European Parliament adopts new data protection laws protecting LGBT people  - The European Parliament has adopted new data protection laws which seek to better protect the private information of an individual pertaining to their  ...

Who pays as America greys?

Who pays as America greys?  -  America has essentially been slowly dismantled since the 1930's. ... would eliminate poverty despite the fact it had been declining for decades prior to  ...

The Poverty of Policy on Poverty

The Poverty of Policy on Poverty  - How could it be otherwise when the incomes of one American in three fell below the poverty level for their size of family for at least two months  ...

Promised land: Chicago's Native Americans wait on federal money pledged for social services

Promised land: Chicago's Native Americans wait on federal money pledged for social services  - Wiese, like the majority of Chicago's Native Americans , belongs to the Ojibwe ... Wiese says problems of poverty , identity and cultural preservation for  ...

Why Paul Ryan Is Wrong to Blame Black Culture for Poverty

Why Paul Ryan Is Wrong to Blame Black Culture for Poverty  - As an initial matter, it is still kind of amazing that policymakers in America shuffle around looking for the answer to the poverty question. We discuss  ...

Basic Facts About Low-Income Children

Basic Facts About Low-Income Children  - Black, Hispanic, and American Indian children suffer much higher poverty rates than white children. Nevertheless, white children comprise the largest  ...

Conservatives, Poverty, and Race

Conservatives, Poverty , and Race  - Debate over solutions to poverty has been dominating American politics as of late. Predictably, Democrats have harped on income inequality and  ...

American exceptionalism starts with education

American exceptionalism starts with education  -  Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ... A story from 2010 reports the cost of a college education in America is rising at a rate  ...

A Travesty of an Education

A Travesty of an Education  - This is happening in Christian schools and homeschools* throughout America and the UK. Textbooks used in these schools are written from a biblical  ...

The De-Education of America

The De- Education of America  - The American dream has become a nightmare as this silent threat has broken down our best line of defense against it: education . Education offers a  ...

Why the New York Charter School Fight Is Way Off-Base

Why the New York Charter School Fight Is Way Off-Base   - New York City's public-school system— America's largest—has made headlines of late ... America has begun to turn the corner on public education .

Race is the elephant in the room when it comes to inequality

Race is the elephant in the room when it comes to inequality  - Yet in a serious discussion about American inequality , the subject of race is essentially unavoidable. That's because most of the pipelines to a higher  ...

Increased Social Infrastructure Spending Will Reduce Inequality – IMF Report

Increased Social Infrastructure Spending Will Reduce Inequality – IMF Report  - Stating that while the level of inequality has declined in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa recently, the report noted that there has been attention  ...

America's Most Unequal Metros

America's Most Unequal Metros  - Income inequality has been growing in America , driven by technology, globalization, and other factors. It's caused tensions between the haves and  ...

12 Years a Slave's” and the Tides of History

12 Years a Slave's” and the Tides of History  - Now, the world knows something of the story of Solomon Northrup, a “free” Black American from New York who was kidnapped by slave-hunters in the  ...

The Black T-shirt Collection — An African American saga

The Black T-shirt Collection — An African American saga  - An African American by origin, Ellams tells the story of Mathew and Mohammad — two Nigerian foster brothers who, after facing their fair share of  ...

Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color

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Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color  - The Sentencing Project estimates one in three black men will spend time behind bars during their lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men and one  ...

Harlem Explosion: New York Building Collapse Hits Latino Families Hardest

Harlem Explosion: New York Building Collapse Hits Latino Families Hardest  - The explosion in New York's neighborhood of East Harlem left 17 people injured and at least 2 people dead after a giant gas explosion caused the  ...

GOP leaders: Skirting abortion issue not an answer

GOP leaders: Skirting abortion issue not an answer  - Black and Hispanic voters side with social conservatives on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said.

Elton John AIDS Foundation is Largest Funder of LGBTQ Programs for Black Americans

Elton John AIDS Foundation is Largest Funder of LGBTQ Programs for Black Americans  - a sample of young Black gay men was shown to have an annual HIV infection rate of 12%, meaning that a young Black gay man becoming sexually  ...