The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

By | January 30th, 2015|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

It was close to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Nov. 4, 2013, and Sasha Fleischman was riding the 57 bus home from school. An 18-year-old senior at a small private high school, Sasha wore a T-shirt, a black fleece jacket, a gray newsboy cap and a gauzy white skirt. For much of the long

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Mormon Church’s shift on gay rights follows series of defeats in California

By | January 28th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The pledge Tuesday by the Mormon Church to oppose housing and job discrimination against gays follows years of piercing church losses in California over gay rights, including one last week.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Racial Profiling on Campus?

By | January 26th, 2015|Education|

The debate over racial profiling — already a hot topic on many college campuses — gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student Saturday evening. Black students and faculty members at many campuses charge that racial profiling is a fact of life for them, but this student’s experience

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Talk of Wealth Gap Prods the G.O.P. to Refocus

By | January 22nd, 2015|Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s push for a new “middle-class economics” may go nowhere in Congress, but his ambitious array of proposals to raise stagnant incomes and provide more government support for struggling working families will frame his last two years in office and help make the politics of rich

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In North Carolina, police officers and young black men talk it out

By | January 21st, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

Show your hands. Don’t reach for anything. Don’t make sudden movements.

One chilly evening not long ago, a panel of police officers met with citizens gathered here at City Hall to offer advice on a subject that has come up in almost every city in America: What happens when a young African American man is stopped

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gays Nationwide Can Marry

By | January 16th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. The court’s announcement made it likely that it would resolve one of the great civil rights questions of the age before its current term

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