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Steven Lopez went from California’s Central Valley to D.C. & learned to be a youth advocate
“I began to connect the dots, and was like, well, if my students or their families aren’t healthy, that’s impacting their ability to be academically successful.”
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Immigrant rights group loses Catholic funds over gay marriage affiliation
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Catholic organization has decided to cut off long-standing funding to a Portland, Oregon, immigrant rights group over its affiliation with an organization that supports same-sex marriage. Voz Workers’ Rights Education lost a $75,000 grant in June from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The group is the anti-poverty program of …
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Human rights groups urge public officials not to attend ‘Values Voter Summit’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend this week’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust.
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Largest Latino civil rights group approves same-sex marriage resolution
Board members of the country’s largest Latino civil rights organization earlier this month unanimously passed a resolution in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples.
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Hispanic group urges Obama to ‘revisit’ ENDA stopgap
An organization billing itself as the largest Hispanic civil rights group in the United States is calling on President Obama to “revisit” his decision not to take administrative action to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors.