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Want to Cure Income Inequality? Promote Entrepreneurship.

Want to Cure Income Inequality ? Promote Entrepreneurship.  - One of the most pressing issues for our society today is income inequality : The ... resources, are: financial services, consulting and Teach for America .

Global digital rights groups say Facebook's Internet.org increases inequality

Global digital rights groups say Facebook's Internet.org increases inequality  - Internet.org's offer of access to selected websites and services without data charges has been criticized by over 60 digital rights groups around the ...

Can you recognize the shape of inequality in America? Most can't

Can you recognize the shape of inequality in America ? Most can't  - We wrote on Monday about some new research showing how woefully confused most people are about inequality , not just in the U.S. but around the ...

America's failing public transportation is increasing inequality

America's failing public transportation is increasing inequality  - Transportation is about more than just moving people from point A to point B. It's also a system that can either limit or expand the opportunities ...

Seton Hall has 'amazing opportunity'

Seton Hall has 'amazing opportunity'  - Warren Hall, said he was removed from his post for a pro- LGBT post on his Facebook page. That was the doing of Newark Archbishop John Myers, ...

Remembering LGBT History Didn't Begin With Stonewall

Remembering LGBT History Didn't Begin With Stonewall  - The long arc of gay history means there will be wins — like the story of Victorian-era cross-dressers Fanny and Stella — and losses, like Russia's ...

Party-people power: the Irish LGBT clubs rallying for gay marriage

Party-people power: the Irish LGBT clubs rallying for gay marriage  - DJ, writer and prominent activist for the Irish LGBT rights movement, Tonie Walsh, will always remember the first time he went to Flikkers, one of ...

Ireland gay marriage referendum: how LGBT rights have improved across the world

Ireland gay marriage referendum: how LGBT rights have improved across the world  - Ireland gay marriage referendum: how LGBT rights have improved across the world. As Ireland holds a referendum this week on same sex marriage, ...

Bill Would Help Smaller Cities Enforce LGBT Anti-Discrimination Laws

Bill Would Help Smaller Cities Enforce LGBT Anti-Discrimination Laws - More and more local government entities are considering LGBT -friendly policies such as adding sexual orientation or gender identity to the list of ...

Portraits of growing up LGBT in East Africa

Portraits of growing up LGBT in East Africa  -  LGBT Africans are everywhere—within the neighborhoods of Dakar, Toronto, Nairobi, New York City and London and in the small towns and villages ...

Banned Innocence of Muslims Film Finds New Life Under Court Ruling

Banned Innocence of Muslims Film Finds New Life Under Court Ruling  - but often overlooked form of discrimination against LGBT Americans. was elated to hear of President Obama's support for a permanent ban.

Two belles' wedding bells resound in city's LGBT family

Two belles' wedding bells resound in city's LGBT family  - The news of wedding of Richa* and Shivani* has given the LGBT community of the city a big reason to cheer. The couple who recently ...

Fury after women banned from Cannes red carpet screening of pro-LGBT film 'Carol' because they ...

Fury after women banned from Cannes red carpet screening of pro- LGBT film 'Carol' because they ...  - Cannes Film Festival organisers are facing a massive backlash after turning some women away from the red carpet because they weren't wearing ...

What Latino voters care about more than immigration

What Latino voters care about more than immigration  - Immigration remains a litmus test issue, but the top concerns of Latino voters are the economy and ... That's a lot of people seeking a better education.

Immigration relief, a movement-building moment

Immigration relief, a movement-building moment  - Surrounded by several hundred of her boisterous neighbors in the Jackson Heights office of Make the Road New York—where people were crammed ...

What Does Baltimore Say About America's Racism and Inequality?

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What Does Baltimore Say About America's Racism and Inequality?  -  America's “ race problem” is traced back to slavery, which was not only a ... Yet, black power was thwarted through voter disenfranchisement and a ...

American hypocrisy exposed: US slammed on racism, police brutality and human rights violations

American hypocrisy exposed: US slammed on racism , police brutality and human rights violations  - Ireland called for the U.S. to “continue to vigorously investigate recent cases of alleged police-led human rights abuses against African - Americans and ...

Can Obama Repair the Damage to Race Relations He's Done Before Leaving Office?

Can Obama Repair the Damage to Race Relations He's Done Before Leaving Office?  - Heady optimism, embedded as it is in the American genetic code, was ... African - American male prison population, and racial agitation on the part of ...

The death of racial math

The death of racial math  -  African - Americans represent 45 percent of the city," says businessman and political ... Each candidate I asked said they hope we are past racial math.

Is Marijuana Legalization Going To Bring An End To The Racial Discrimination In The USA

Is Marijuana Legalization Going To Bring An End To The Racial Discrimination In The USA  - The legalization of marijuana has thus become a microcosm of race -tensions and race -relations in the USA of today where the African - American male ...

Jerry Hough Needs a History Lesson in Black Names

Jerry Hough Needs a History Lesson in Black Names   - the political science professor posted a comment in which he made offensive racial comments, including some about African - American names.

The Reason America Adopted Race-Based Slavery

The Reason America Adopted Race -Based Slavery  - In 1700, a 70-year-old African American could look back half a century to 1650 and shiver, knowing that conditions had definitely changed for the ...

Boston University prof in racist tweet flap accused of trolling white rape victim

Boston University prof in racist tweet flap accused of trolling white rape victim  - Grundy, an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African - American studies at the school, previously tweeted that "white masculinity is THE ...

Is New Orleans 'most African city' in U.S.? Get answers at NOMA through May 25

Is New Orleans 'most African city' in U.S.? Get answers at NOMA through May 25  - And the exhibit is true to its title, featuring both folk objects and contemporary art by African - Americans who carry on the culture of the Kongo in the ...

The New Black opens new dialogue about LGBT and religion in black community

The New Black opens new dialogue about LGBT and religion in black community  - Is gay marriage a civil right like black equality? Or is it a sin African Americans should condemn? That's the question at the heart of The New ...