Immigrants own 33% of California’s small businesses, the highest share in the U.S., and make up 27% of the state’s population.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0615-immigrant-business-20120615,0,3694166.story
Amber is one of an increasing number who are getting specialized care. The 12-year-old takes puberty-blocking drugs and hopes to have gender reassignment surgery at 16.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-transgender-kids-20120615,0,216229.story
Women have made huge strides in the job market since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963. Yet almost half a century after it became illegal to pay women less than men for the same job, the weekly wage of a typical woman who works full time is almost 18 percent less than
For years, gay rights organizations and major civil rights organizations viewed each other warily. African-American leaders often saw the gay rights groups as insensitive to racial concerns, and some resented the movement’s use of civil rights language to make the case for same-sex marriage. Advocates for gay rights, in turn, sometimes blamed socially conservative African-Americans
A federal district judge in New York ruled last week that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the Constitution by requiring the plaintiff to pay federal estate tax on her same-sex spouse’s estate, even though opposite-sex spouses are exempt. It follows a string of other rulings striking down the law in a federal appeals court,
The claims Mark Regnerus makes about his findings on gay parenting play into a pattern of conservative scholars and activists misinterpreting the data on LGBT families.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-frank-same-sex-regnerus-family-20120613,0,392991.story
Some Catholics are wondering whether bishops have abandoned their historic nonpartisanship as they campaign against contraception provisions in President Obama’s healthcare plan.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-bishops-politics-20120613,0,582933.story
Hey, I heard that: “Oh, no, the black columnist is writing about race, again.”
Read more in The New York Times: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/not-afraid-to-talk-about-race/?src=rechp
A hush fell over the King High School gym when Jeffrey Warren was announced as winner of an African-American student scholarship.
Read more in The Press-Enterprise: http://www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-education-headlines/20120610-education-white-student-returns-scholarship-intended-for-blacks.ece
DENVER — The nation’s rapidly growing Latino population is one of the most powerful forces working in President Obama’s favor in many of the states that will determine his contest with Mitt Romney. But Latinos are not registering or voting in numbers that fully reflect their potential strength, leaving Hispanic leaders frustrated and Democrats worried