Tolerance takes a hit: Americans less accepting of LGBT people in 2017, survey shows

By | January 26th, 2018|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

For the first time in four years, Americans are less accepting of LGBT people, a survey finds — a setback activists say is stunning but not unexpected after a turbulent 2017.

Fewer than half of non-LGBT adults — 49% — said they were “very” or “somewhat” comfortable around LGBT people in certain scenarios, according

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Less cooperation with ICE? LA County’s sheriff oversight panel could recommend it

By | January 26th, 2018|Immigration, Police & Community|

Ideas to further limit cooperation between the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and federal immigration officials were met with cheers and jeers from community members Thursday at a civilian oversight meeting in downtown Los Angeles.

The recent passage of Senate Bill 54, sometimes referred to as a “sanctuary state” law, already limits the ability of

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Most Americans Want Legal Status for ‘Dreamers.’ These People Don’t.

By | January 25th, 2018|Immigration, Intergroup Relations|

For Pav Sterry of Columbus, Ohio, legalizing any undocumented immigrants — even those who came as children without a choice in the matter — is just plain wrong.

Huy Pham of St. Paul believes any concessions for the so-called Dreamers will unleash another tidal wave of illegal

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Trump Says He Is Open to a Path to Citizenship for ‘Dreamers’

By | January 25th, 2018|Immigration|

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he is open to a path to citizenship after 10 to 12 years for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, days after rejecting a bipartisan plan with that as its centerpiece.

Mr. Trump

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Trump to overhaul HHS office, shield health workers with moral objections

By | January 18th, 2018|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The Trump administration on Thursday will announce an overhaul of the HHS civil rights office as part of a broader plan to protect health workers who don’t want to perform abortions, treat transgender patients seeking to transition or provide other services for which they have religious or moral objections.

Under a proposed rule — which has

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LGBTQ college student is stabbed 20 times in an ‘act of rage,’ but was it a hate crime?

By | January 18th, 2018|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

They both went to high school at the elite Orange County School of the Arts, but the classmates weren’t particularly close.

Blaze Bernstein, home on winter break from the University of Pennsylvania, messaged with Samuel Woodward on Snapchat. On Jan. 2, Woodward drove over and picked him up….

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Trump Admin To Transgender Kids: We Won’t Deal With Your Civil Rights Complaints

By | January 16th, 2018|Education, LGBTQ+|

In Texas, a transgender teenager said his high school discriminated against him for almost two years. He was not allowed to use the bathroom that corresponded with his gender identity. When he traveled overnight with one of the school’s teams, he wasn’t allowed to room with

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How an LA teacher’s lawsuit put White House’s DACA repeal on hold

By | January 16th, 2018|Education, Immigration|

When the Trump administration announced last fall it would phase out a program that provides deportation relief to thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children, Los Angeles teacher Miriam Gonzalez Avila didn’t want her students to think she could be defeated so easily — so she sued.

“I knew signing up as

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Workplace Raids Signal Shifting Tactics in Immigration Fight

By | January 16th, 2018|Immigration|

The Trump administration is taking its campaign against illegal immigration to the workplace.

The raids by federal agents on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores last week were the administration’s first big show of force meant to convey the consequences of employing undocumented people….

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A DYING TOWN:  Here in a corner of Missouri and across America, the lack of a college education has become a public-health crisis.

By | January 16th, 2018|Education, Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

Drive 90 miles north on Interstate 55 from Memphis, then 20 miles west on Route 412, cutting through seemingly endless fields of cotton, rice, and soybeans. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you see the sign: Welcome to Kennett. Hometown of Sheryl Crow.

This small town in southeastern Missouri used to greet visitors with a different motto:

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