Tattoos tell stories, whether on the arm of a Holocaust survivor or a white supremacist.
The faded black number on Ester Bershtel’s left arm testifies to one woman’s strength to escape the horrors of Auschwitz.
Read more in The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hate-374986-white-kennedy.html
KOUNTZE, Tex. — In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/us/in-texas-a-legal-battle-over-biblical-banners.html
WHEN Ayinde Alleyne arrived at the Trinity School, an elite independent school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, he was eager to make new friends. A brainy 14-year-old, he was the son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, a teacher and an auto-body repairman, in the South Bronx. He was soon overwhelmed by the
KOUNTZE, Tex. — A judge on Thursday gave a group of cheerleaders here a temporary victory in their fight to display Bible verses on banners at public school football games, allowing them to continue to use the signs for the rest of the season.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/court-says-texas-cheerleaders-can-use-bible-verses.html?src=recg
A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that gay Americans are a class of people who deserve the same kinds of constitutional protections as many other victims of discrimination.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/appeals-court-rules-against-defense-of-marriage-act.html?hpw&_r=0
WASHINGTON — Gay rights advocates won another victory Thursday in their fight for equal treatment under law, when the U.S appeals court in New York struck down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act and held for the first time that gays and lesbians are a minority group deserving of special protection from
MIAMI — When the Florida Board of Education voted this month to set different goals for student achievement in reading and math by race and ethnicity, among other guidelines, the move was widely criticized as discriminatory and harmful to blacks and Hispanics.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/education/florida-officials-defend-racial-and-ethnic-learning-goals.html?ref=education
More than half of the nation’s Latinos are in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a survey released on Thursday, dispelling a long-standing notion that their religious beliefs offered a safe path to Republicans looking to stake a claim in the community through shared social values….
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If you’re in the area, you may want to check out this event in Riverside on Saturday, Oct. 20.
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into whether Jewish students at the university are the victims of a “pervasive hostile environment” in violation of federal civil rights laws.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-berkeley-anti-semitism-20121015,0,5706247.story