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Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as “ridiculous” attempts to “cover up history”
“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.”
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LGBTQ+ parenting rights win in landmark court decision
Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover went through the entire IVF process together. Then Glover decided she wanted to be a single mom.
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Democrats reintroduce “long-overdue” Equality Act
After the bipartisan passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, some have renewed hope that the Equality Act can make it to the President’s desk.
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MSNBC guest skewers Kyrsten Sinema as type of white person “Martin Luther King Jr. warned us about”
“These are the white liberals who have no sense of urgency, commitment or integrity when it comes to the progress of justice in the country,” said Elie Mystal.
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Commentary
Dolores Huerta shows us how LGBTQ equality is inextricably linked with other justice movements
“When we talk about workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights, we are having the same conversation about human rights – and the universal struggle to be understood and treated as equals.”
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A mayor & thousands of businesses asked a city council for civil rights law. The council voted no.
The non-discrimination ordinance would protect LGBTQ people and keep businesses from fleeing town. It still didn’t pass – and council members have different excuses as to why.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson arrested protesting Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
39 protestors were arrested trying to get Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to support democratic reform.
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Commentary
The statehood of Washington D.C. is the key priority to our civil rights
It is simply not right that residents of the District of Columbia are denied equal representation in the very city that boasts the strength of American democracy.
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The Obamas will produce an upcoming film about Bayard Rustin
The director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is attached to direct, and the writer of the Milk biopic is writing the screenplay.
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Biden administration reverses Trump official’s last minute attempt to limit LGBTQ rights
A Trump appointee told the Justice Department that it should “hesitate to apply” a landmark LGBTQ Supreme Court victory.