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Here are more things you can’t do now if you’re black or brown

When will white people stop calling the cops on people of color because they're napping, golfing, moving, dancing, or taking their kid to the park?

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Transgender victims of Oakland fire still being misgendered after death

The media is learning proper naming is critical because it validates the way people who have died lived.

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Across the nation, thousands of people protested Trump’s election last night

The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday as protesters flooded city streets.

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Breanna Sinclairé becomes first trans person to perform National Anthem at MLB Game

It was only the second game Sinclairé ever attended, but the classically trained soprano, who has a 4½-octave range, broke new ground before the Oakland A’s game with the San Diego Padres at the A’s LGBT…

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Four West Coast mayors lift bans on city-funded travel to Indiana

The mayors of four West Coast cities say they're lifting bans imposed on city-funded travel to Indiana after changes were made to that state's religious objections law to make clear it can't be used to discriminate.

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Teen who set agender victim on fire will serve 7 years under plea agreement

OAKLAND, Calif. — A California teen accused of setting fire last year to an agender individual who was sleeping on an Oakland city bus, has entered a plea of no contest to felony charges. Richard Thomas,…

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All-female college adopts new policy to admit transgender students

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Transgender students who identify as female will now be considered for enrollment at Mills College in Oakland. The announcement makes Mills the first of the country’s 119 single-sex colleges to have an official…

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Teachers criticize Catholic school contracts that regulate their private lives

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Roman Catholic Dioceses in Oakland and Cincinnati have come under fire for new morality clauses that require teachers to conform to church teachings in their private lives.

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Teen charged as adult in hate crime attack for setting fire to agender victim

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A 16-year-old teen has been charged as an adult in an alleged hate crime against an agender victim whose skirt was set on fire while sleeping on a city bus.

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Oakland queer youth space destroyed by unexplained fire

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Officials at an Oakland queer youth space are frantically trying to find a new location after the building they had been using was destroyed by a fire.

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