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Will The New Anti-Bullying Law Stop Bullying in Worcester Schools?

Will The New Anti-Bullying Law Stop Bullying in Worcester Schools?  - The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual ( LGBT ) community and students with disabilities are the new focus of the recently established anti-bullying law, ...

LGBT rights: Freedom to dissent, freedom to stone?

LGBT rights: Freedom to dissent, freedom to stone?  - There has been much ado about a public statement last week signed by supporters of same-sex marriage supporting the rights of religious people to ...

Chicago film festival to showcase Black LGBT experience

Chicago film festival to showcase Black LGBT experience  - The Black Alphabet Film Festival has announced its 2014 dates. Movies that explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender experiences in the ...

How a couple survived transition and kept their queer identities

How a couple survived transition and kept their queer identities  - Eight years later, the couple not only remains together, they still identify as queer, still work in LGBT media, and remain part of the LGBT community.

In Brigham Young University Survey Of Student Sexuality, Heterosexuality Is The Only Option

In Brigham Young University Survey Of Student Sexuality, Heterosexuality Is The Only Option  - Several universities have begun inviting applicants to self-identify as LGBT , a step that provides the school with information to better serve LGBT  ...

The Importance of Raising Your Voice

The Importance of Raising Your Voice  - On Tuesday, April 29, hundreds of LGBT New Yorkers and our allies will gather to demand that our government do more to protect us. Equality ...

AT&T named best company for LGBT employees

AT&T named best company for LGBT employees  - It's not often that Texas ranks at the top of the heap for anything LGBT , but DiversityInc named Dallas-based AT&T as the best company for ...

LGBT Parenting: Does Every Moment Have to Be a Teaching Moment?

LGBT Parenting: Does Every Moment Have to Be a Teaching Moment?  - As LGBT youth, adults and families know all too well, name-calling, teasing and bullying isn't confined to just the playground, classroom, or cafeteria ...

Cleveland developing registry of LGBT businesses in time for Gay Games

Cleveland developing registry of LGBT businesses in time for Gay Games  - A registry of businesses owned by members of the LGBT community is being developed in time for the 2014 Gay Games scheduled ...

Does Michigan Need Affirmative Action?

Does Michigan Need Affirmative Action?  - In 2020, projects the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education , white ... Only 53 percent of African- American and Hispanic ninth-graders in ...

Maine ranks 15th in high school graduation rate

Maine ranks 15th in high school graduation rate  - the report by organizations focused on education , including America's Promise Alliance, a group founded by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Gay people can make good monks too,' says openly gay Thai Buddhist monk (VIDEO)

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Gay people can make good monks too,' says openly gay Thai Buddhist monk ( VIDEO )  - A Thai Buddhist monk who is gay and a former cross-dresser has gone on public television to say there is nothing wrong with gay  ...

On the Record: An ally for LGBT employees

On the Record: An ally for LGBT employees  - I attended Principal Financial Group's employee meeting at which they unveiled a video to support lesbian, gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) ...

Ivory Tower' Doc Exposes the Reasons Behind America's Student Debt Crisis

Ivory Tower' Doc Exposes the Reasons Behind America's Student Debt Crisis  - Like most young Americans , he believed that education unlocked opportunities. But in the years after graduating from Yale University in 1995, he has ...

Poverty and war condemn capitalism

Poverty and war condemn capitalism  -  Poverty and wars are an indictment of capitalism as a failed economic ... America's top 400 rich individuals own more wealth than half the population ...

States where the most children go hungry

States where the most children go hungry  - According to Ross Fraser, Director of Media Relations at Feeding America , children are of course more vulnerable to poverty and food-insecurity ..

The Real Retirement Crisis

The Real Retirement Crisis  -  America has a retirement crisis, but it's not what some people want you to ... They'll depend on Social Security to stave off poverty once they stop ...

When it comes to income inequality, whose wages matter?

When it comes to income inequality , whose wages matter?  - Lower wages overseas draw companies to relocate jobs to developing countries, seemingly exacerbating the income inequality in America . However ...

The Real Inequality Problem

The Real Inequality Problem  -  America may well have an economic inequality problem, but it's not a ... internet pioneers, and others—are wealthier than the average American .

Fighting income inequality could spur growth

Fighting income inequality could spur growth  - There is no “trade-off between income equality and economic growth” claims Micha Gisser. American history since World ...

How America's middle class fell behind its Canadian neighbours

How America's middle class fell behind its Canadian neighbours  - If you're a proud member of America's middle class, you may have been startled to learn last ... (Income inequality is at its highest level since 1928.).

No more great expectations for Americans

No more great expectations for Americans  -  Inequality was tolerated in the U.S. because everyone had a chance to get rich through ... Most Americans cannot have great expectations anymore.

African American Exposure to Polluted Air 38% Higher than Whites | Black Politics on the Web

African American Exposure to Polluted Air 38% Higher than Whites | Black Politics on the Web  - Communities of color across the United States are exposed to disproportionately high rates of pollution, according to engineering and environmental ...

GradNation Report Confirms 80 percent High School Graduation Rate, Highest in U.S. History

GradNation Report Confirms 80 percent High School Graduation Rate, Highest in U.S. History  - points, from 61 percent in 2006 to 76 percent in 2012. African American graduation rates grew from 59 percent in 2006 to 68 percent in 2012.

Cuarón, Ronaldo, Pope Francis, Maduro and Bachelet Among the Most Influential Latinos in the ...

Cuarón, Ronaldo, Pope Francis, Maduro and Bachelet Among the Most Influential Latinos in the ...  - Time magazine revealed its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014, among which are Latino celebrities in sports, politics and ...