Tag: discrimination
Biden administration ends Trump-era rule, banning discrimination against transgender people in...
“Everyone – including LGBTQ people - should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”
The Trump administration’s final push to make it easier for religious...
Last-minute policies on religious freedom clear the way for employers to hire on the basis of faith. Some of the changes won't be easy for Biden to undo.
10 reasons why defunding police should lead to defunding war
If we find indiscriminate state violence in our streets appalling, we should feel similarly about state violence abroad, and call for divesting from both police and the Pentagon, and reinvesting those taxpayer dollars to rebuild communities at home and abroad.
Taking down the statue
This attack on Fraser’s work comes in the midst of a nation-wide movement to tear down statues which desecrate the history of blacks and Native Americans.
Five black & brown men have been recently found hanged in...
“They deserve a full investigation and given the context of this history … that we look at them more than three days, and then that they are looked at as a whole.”
Coronavirus discriminates against Black lives through surveillance, policing and the absence...
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Fighting for America’s soul
Progressives are fighting to save the values and institutions on which their country was founded.
Fox contributor and former Trump top staffer David Bossie tells Black...
Bossie later said that he "should have chosen my words more carefully."
LGBTQ workers still face employment discrimination
In an era when 90 percent of America believes it is unfair to discriminate against someone due to their sexual orientation, it’s remarkable we haven’t made this law.
Asia: 260 million indigenous peoples marginalized, discriminated
Asian indigenous peoples face discrimination and marginalization, heavy assimilation pressure and violent repression by state security forces.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. Four...
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
A mulish fool, a farce-spoiled pool and more swill from staggering misrule
No matter the mayhem, great or small,/ Dredge up “vandals did it” protocol.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.