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Who Will Be The Next Leaders of the LGBT Movement?

Who Will Be The Next Leaders of the LGBT Movement?  - More than a decade later, the landscape of LGBT equality in this country looks very different. The leaders I continue to admire have a decade of ...

New York LGBT youths engage in 'survival sex'

New York LGBT youths engage in 'survival sex'  - New York LGBT youths engage in 'survival sex'. In extensive interviews, 283 gay, lesbian and transgender youth spoke about learning how to subsist ...

Walmart Comes Out Against Anti-LGBT Bill

Walmart Comes Out Against Anti- LGBT Bill  - Wal-Mart on Tuesday criticized a "conscience protection" measure in the retail giant's home state that opponents say ...

Homeless New York City LGBT youth cope with street life by having 'survival sex': federal study

Homeless New York City LGBT youth cope with street life by having 'survival sex': federal study  - A trio sits in Hudson River Park in New York in 2013, a site where LGBT youth often meet, according to a federal study. NEW YORK ...

LGBT activists talk community and why 'Black lives matter'

LGBT activists talk community and why 'Black lives matter'  - A discussion on how the "Black Lives Matter" movement incorporated the LGBT community became a widely encompassing meditation on the nature ...

LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week 2015: Number of kids adopted by LGBT couples has tripled

LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week 2015: Number of kids adopted by LGBT couples has tripled  - This year's events will celebrate the fact that the number of children adopted by LGBT couples has tripled since a chance in law in 2005. Carers from ...

Georgians are uniting against LGBT discrimination

Georgians are uniting against LGBT discrimination  - All Georgians deserve to be treated fairly and equally, including LGBT people,” said HRC National Field Director Marty Rouse. “No one should be ...

Are Glasgow's biggest employers LGBT friendly? We don't know because they won't get evaluated

Are Glasgow's biggest employers LGBT friendly? We don't know because they won't get evaluated  - Although we've not applied to join Stonewall's equality index, we are working with them to ensure LGBT issues are firmly built into our service delivery ...

One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger

One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty , hunger  - Nearly a third of Germans believe that capitalism is the cause of poverty and hunger and a majority think true democracy is not ...

From prison to poverty

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From prison to poverty  - The work offers insights into how social conditions of American poverty shape the lives of those released from incarceration. Western is Harvard's ...

Legend's Oscar speech raises questions about more than race in the US

Legend's Oscar speech raises questions about more than race in the US  - Musician John Legend's Oscar acceptance speech highlighted America's ... in America , the underlying problem knows no race or ethnicity: Poverty .

African-American Women and Breast Cancer Risk

African - American Women and Breast Cancer Risk  - According to the American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Facts and ... white and African American women, there remains a substantial racial gap.

Officials apologize for school's African-American only student assembly

Officials apologize for school's African - American only student assembly  - The teacher is the only African - American teacher on Benicia Middle ... held the assembly to address growing concerns about use of racial slurs like the ...

Newsreader who used racist slur to describe Lady Gaga's music will not get fired

Newsreader who used racist slur to describe Lady Gaga's music will not get fired  - If you're confused, 'jigaboo' is an old racial slur to describe an African - American . As you can imagine, this rubbed a lot of people the wrong way…

Why all minorities should be grateful to the African American community

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Why all minorities should be grateful to the African American community  - and racial equality in America, both contributed tremendously to the cause. ... The African American community has lived and died for our right to be ...

Experts Defend Videogames' Educational Role

Experts Defend Videogames' Educational Role  - Videogames are a means of communication and have an important educational role, argued three professors belonging to the Open ...

Awesome Video Shows What NOT to Say to a Black Latino

Awesome Video Shows What NOT to Say to a Black Latino  - And although most people are really well-meaning when they ask questions about what it's like to be a black Latino ("How can you be both?

Vatican apologizes to Mexico for Pope's 'Mexicanization' remarks

Vatican apologizes to Mexico for Pope's 'Mexicanization' remarks  - The Holy See feels that the term 'Mexicanization' in no way should (be thought to) have a stigmatizing intent toward the people of Mexico and even ...

Empowering communities for affordable housing, living wages, health care and more

Empowering communities for affordable housing, living wages, health care and more  - If you go to our public meetings, you see hundreds of black, white and Latino people working together. That's where I point people to go.".

Chicago Program Uses Home Visits To Boost Latino Early Education

Chicago Program Uses Home Visits To Boost Latino Early Education  - Yet one of the debilitating effects of poverty is little access to a high-quality education. Chicago has seen an explosive growth in its Latino population.

Government programs cut state's child poverty in half, report says

Government programs cut state's child poverty in half, report says  - Children of color are much more likely to live in poverty , according to the report. The poverty rate for Latino and African-American children is 29 ...

Do Latino Businesses Pander to White Customers?

Do Latino Businesses Pander to White Customers?  - They were boisterous, with a drinking game going on where people yelled out ... Still, I'm pretty sure it's just Latino establishments that feel the need to ...

New Poll Looks At US Latinos' Foreign Policy Views

New Poll Looks At US Latinos ' Foreign Policy Views  - Some people worry that the changing demographics will shift our foreign policy priorities and that Latin Americans will have greater loyalty to their ...

Report: Impact of HIV on Black Gay Men is 'Greatest' Failure of US Response to AIDS

Report: Impact of HIV on Black Gay Men is 'Greatest' Failure of US Response to AIDS  - In fact, Black gay men currently account for more than half (53%) of all new HIV infections among Black Americans each year. The analysts conclude: ...

Lifting from poverty, while avoiding fallback

Lifting from poverty , while avoiding fallback  - UN Development Programme (UNDP) estimates suggest that more than 1.5 million people in the Latin American region will fall into poverty by the end ...