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This year's Republican National Convention will be super weird and super white

This year's Republican National Convention will be super weird and super white  - So this year’s convention, as expected, has more wild cards and flash than 2012 did. All that convention gave us was Clint Eastwood addressing an empty chair and human noodle Mitt Romney talking about energy policy.

New generation of LGBT activists sees 'confluence' with Black Lives Matter

New generation of LGBT activists sees 'confluence' with Black Lives Matter  - The morning after 49 people were massacred inside an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub last month, some in the Sacramento LGBT community began ...

Why aren't more people talking about Latinos killed by police?

Why aren't more people talking about Latinos killed by police?  - In American history, racial conflict has largely played out in black and white. But the history is much more complicated, [leaving] out Native Americans , ...

10 American Women Share Views on Race, Acceptance and Moving On

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10 American Women Share Views on Race , Acceptance and Moving On  - There were many instances stemming from being an 8-year-old at an all-white Catholic school, where the kids called my skin color “dirty.” Then there times in the classroom where kids lost pencils or markers and I was pinpointed as the thief and paddled. That happened more times than I could count and it was usually followed by the kids later discovering their items on a

Obama Recalls When He Faced Racial Prejudice as a Kid

Obama Recalls When He Faced Racial Prejudice as a Kid  - President Barack Obama today said his empathy for the grievances expressed by blacks about how they are treated by police and fellow citizens is ...

A History of White Delusion

A History of White Delusion  - In 1962, 85 percent of white Americans told Gallup that black children had as good a ... That's the backdrop for racial tensions roiling America today.

Dark Humor' by African-American Artists at Delaware Art Museum

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Dark Humor' by African - American Artists at Delaware Art Museum  - Dark Humor' by African - American Artists at Delaware Art Museum ... Dark Humor: African American Art from the University Museums, University of ... works that employ subversive humor to question cultural and racial stereotypes.

White mother talks about how her African-American children experience racism

White mother talks about how her African - American children experience racism  - Rachel Garlinghouse does not know what it's like to grow up black in America . The mother has only experienced what she calls ...

Abortion, Gay Rights, Immigration and More

Abortion, Gay Rights, Immigration and More  - Pence helped pass one of the nation's first "religious freedom" laws that protected people and businesses who wanted to refuse service ...

San Diego's only transgender police officer is prouder than ever this year

San Diego's only transgender police officer is prouder than ever this year  - Officer Garcia along with her colleague Sergeant Daniel Meyer, SDPD liaison to the LGBT community, made it clear that they were there for San Diego ...

Israel's State-funded Homophobia

Israel's State-funded Homophobia  - A senior figure in Israel's network of premilitary academies has called members of the LGBT community 'perverts.' As long as taxpayers fund part of his ...

Approves LGBT Propaganda Lessons for K-12 History Classes

Approves LGBT Propaganda Lessons for K-12 History Classes  - And do tell how learning about LGBT history is going to "improve literacy skills, and English language development" of students in California's ...

A beautiful photo series depicts the dual lives of the Indian LGBT community

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A beautiful photo series depicts the dual lives of the Indian LGBT community  - Based out of Kolkata, fashion photographer Amit Bittoo Dey depicts this duality in the lives the LGBT community in the city. Dey, a bisexual himself, ...

A surprising move on LGBT rights from a 'macho' South American president

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A surprising move on LGBT rights from a 'macho' South American president  - Bolivia has a new gender identity law that might put it in Latin America's vanguard on LGBT rights — but the story behind the ...

LGBT activitst group condemn FBI theory on Orlando shooting

LGBT activitst group condemn FBI theory on Orlando shooting  - An official from the FBI said there was no evidence the devastating shooting was a hate crime. LGBT activitst group condemn FBI theory on Orlando ...

Devotion and despair: The lonely struggle of a gay Mormon

Devotion and despair: The lonely struggle of a gay Mormon  - The LDS church's labels for those on the LGBT spectrum have evolved over the past century. Before 1950, the church referred to homosexuality as ...

It's All Guns And No Roses

It's All Guns And No Roses  - The spark behind the latest bouts of race violence in the US, leading to the ... In New Orleans, I stayed at an “all-white” hotel and the Afro - American  ...

Hope and Change” Becomes “Death and Destruction”

Hope and Change” Becomes “Death and Destruction” - Davis told a young Barack that black people had “reason to hate.” ... days before the murders, Obama had lectured the nation about “ racial disparities ...

Criticism, violence against police doesn't deter prospective state troopers

Criticism, violence against police doesn't deter prospective state troopers  - The recent deaths of two black men after police shooting incidents in ... target African - American men and other minorities through racial profiling.

Group's aim is to continue dialogue on race

Group's aim is to continue dialogue on race  - The committee also played a role in bringing the film, which discusses why it is difficult for whites and blacks to have discussions about race , to the ...
Most Americans pessimistic about race relations  - A police officer patrols during a protest in support of the Black Lives Matter ... A great majority of Americans see race relations in the US as “generally ...

Summer's racial turmoil is rooted in America's original sin

Summer's racial turmoil is rooted in America's original sin  - The troubling issue in these cases is that police across the country continue to exert excessive and deadly force against African - Americans in a racially  ...

Behind racial tensions, a deeper problem: segregation

Behind racial tensions, a deeper problem: segregation  - Mgeni says that the police shooting of African - American Philando Castile last ... Racial segregation is a relatively new phenomenon in the Twin cities.

Black Lives Matter Forces Hollywood to Get Real About Racism

Black Lives Matter Forces Hollywood to Get Real About Racism  - Kenya Barris, writer and creator of the ABC sitcom “Black-ish,” about an affluent African - American family struggling to maintain its identity, said ...