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News (USA)
Seattle’s Black Pride event charged a “reparations fee” & white people lost their shit at the idea
After another Pride group complained to the Human Rights Commission, the body offered to find a “white-passing member of the queer community” to explain to them just how dumb their allegation of “reverse discrimination” was.
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News (USA)
Out Black lawmaker won’t be prosecuted for knocking on GOP governor’s door
Prosecutors said her knocking on that door was “annoying” but doesn’t justify charges. Rep. Park Cannon hopes people are focused on the voting rights restrictions she was protesting.
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News (USA)
Federal court blocks Donald Trump’s ban on anti-discrimination training
A federal judge saw right through Trump: “The fact that this Government dislikes this speech is irrelevant,” she wrote.
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Life
Dorothy Parker’s remains find a home after decades spent in a filing cabinet & a business park
Dorothy Parker has a new resting place, or at least her “dust” does.
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News (USA)
These publicly-funded schools ban pregnant & LGBTQ students. It’s perfectly legal.
These “segregation academies” can receive up to $6,500 a year from the state per student, but they don’t have to let LGBTQ students in.
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News (USA)
Lawyer who fought to ban trans people from bathrooms will lead DOJ civil rights division
He will head up the Department of Justice’s efforts to fight discrimination, even though he has spent his life defending it.
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News (USA)
Janelle Monáe just came out, officially
Her new album is a reaction to hearing, “All gay people are going to hell.”
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News (USA)
MTV to showcase the cutest couple going to prom in North Carolina
Noah Ambrose and Brandon Caddell didn’t set out to get MTV’s attention; what they want is to change the world.
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News (USA)
NAACP calls for boycott of North Carolina over HB2, voting rights
Cornell Brooks of the NAACP urged religious, sports, and entertainment events to take the business elsewhere.
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News (USA)
Opposition to Trump, HB2 boost NAACP’s annual ‘Moral March on Raleigh’
The Rev. William Barber, state NAACP president and driving force behind the rally, portrayed Trump’s election as a right-wing response to recent expansions of equality and justice.