Driver’s license suspensions push poor deeper into poverty, report says

By | April 8th, 2015|Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

Traffic-court fines layered with escalating fees and penalties have led to driver’s license suspensions for 4.2 million Californians — or one in six drivers — pushing many low-income people deeper into poverty, a report released Wednesday by a coalition of legal aid groups found.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

 

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First-Generation Students Unite

By | April 8th, 2015|Education|

Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark. Neither parent attended college, but she was a star student. With a 2200 on her SATs, she expected to fit in at Harvard.

Yet

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Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison

By | April 6th, 2015|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

ROME, Ga. — Before she fell on hard times and got into trouble with the law, Ashley Diamond had a wardrobe of wigs named after her favorite divas. “Darling, hand me Aretha” or Mariah or Madonna, she would say to her younger sister when they glammed up to go out on the town.

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Racism a Lingering Problem Among Collegiate Millennials

By | April 6th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide says a racist email and photo attributed to her schoolmates makes her reluctant to encourage other black students to enroll “in a place where you feel unsafe and no one cares about you.”

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Officials powerless to stop proposed anti-gay initiative

By | March 24th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

Over the decades, California has chiseled out some of its most colorful laws at the ballot box.

There have been proposed initiatives seeking to allow public school children be able to sing Christmas carols, to require drug testing of state legislators, to outlaw divorce and to divide California into six states.

Read more in the Los

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How To Make Hair Extensions Wavy

By | March 12th, 2015|Uncategorized|

How To Make Hair Extensions Wavy

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Mineral Deficiency & Hair Loss

By | March 12th, 2015|Uncategorized|

Mineral Deficiency & Hair Loss

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