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Native Americans at Harvard College Celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day

Undergraduate group Native Americans at Harvard College hosted an Indigenous Peoples' Day event Monday, celebrating native cultures and ... View article...

UW Law Week Focuses On Native Issues

The University of Wyoming College of Law will focus on Native American issues during its Law Week, an annual event when faculty, staff and the ... View article...

Fed Up With Deaths, Native Americans Want to Run Their Own Health Care

When 6-month-old James Ladeaux got his second upper respiratory infection in a month, the doctor at the Sioux San Indian ... View article...

Native American Group Seeks to slow Alamo Church Renovation

A Native American group is calling on officials to slow down the renovation of the Alamo church in San Antonio, after archaeological reports showed ... View article...

The Supreme Court Case Testing the Limits of Gorsuch's Textualism

To be sure, nobody thinks that Congress in 1964 intended to ban workplace discrimination against LGBTQ persons when it prohibited discrimination ... View article...

Mike Pence's history on LGBTQ issues

Pence promoted a religious-freedom law that is among the most intolerant toward LGBTQ people in the United States. LGTBQ people ... View article...

LGBTQ issues are set to bubble up in the US election campaign

Asked last week what she'd say to a supporter who told her their faith dictated that marriage could only be between one man and one woman, ... View article...

Sir Elton John Is Celebrities' Go-To Public Defender

Most LGBTQ people and allies without as much monetary, political, or social power as DeGeneres or other celebrities? Pretty disappointed. Jameela ... View article...

The History Project tells LGBTQ-themed horror stories

While “Psycho” or “A Nightmare on Elm Street” may not initially come to mind when thinking about the genre queer horror, The History Project wants to ... View article...

These Candidates Still Haven't Released Comprehensive LGBTQ+ Rights Plans

Warren calls for the appointment of a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons to oversee issues abroad, which would return the U.S. to ... View article...

LGBTQ speaker who was kicked out of UNI in the 1960s hosts discussion

Dave Hays, a former UNI employee who is researching LGBTQ life in the Cedar Valley in the 1960s, also spoke. He explained the LGBTQ community ... View article...

Fresno needs more resources for LGBTQ

As a queer citizen of the central valley, I think Fresno, as a city, needs more resources for LGBTQ+ individuals. There are Fresno organizations that are ... View article...

I've had enough of racial appeasement

A central question facing many blacks today, especially in Detroit, is how to confront the Democratic Party's bundle of contradictions without ... View article...

Here's the dark side of billionaire philanthropy — and the threat to American democracy

America's very democracy is dying because billionaires like Zuckerberg ... the middle class and repair the social fabric torn by income inequality. View article...

Was Dallas Police Sentencing Restorative Justice or Blacks Being too Forgiving?

And later on during the same hearing, the African American female judge also ... dialogue is needed to heal the wounds of racism, hate and inequality. View article...

Why Chavismo has been a success

The minimum wage is now the second highest in South America, as inflation and inequality rates have steadily declined. 86% of the population now ... View article...

Why Bernie Sanders Is the Best Candidate to Fight Health Disparities for Black Americans

As a black, female family physician, I see the realities of America's massive racial health ... The examples of racial inequality in health care abound. View article...

Free college won't be enough to prepare Americans for the future of work

Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg have elevated the potential problems of digital transformation and its tendency to exacerbate inequality. However ... View article...

Pink tide against US domination rising again in Latin America

Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against ... in poverty with extreme poverty reduced by 47%; and a decline in inequality ... View article...

Shedding light on sleep disparity among minorities

Income inequality requires African Americans to work longer hours for less pay. Discriminatory housing policies segregate many people of color into ... View article...