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City of San Francisco and the SF Human Rights Commission Receive Perfect Score on Municipal Equality Index (MEI) for Legislation and Policy Development Benefiting City’s LGBT Community
The Human Rights Campaign awards San Francisco Perfect Score of 100 on the 2015 MEI

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 January 5th, 2016|LGBTQ+|

SF Human Rights Commission also recognized for its advocacy related to violence prevention in the Trans Community and for overall programming & advocacy related to empowering City’s LGBT community

(San Francisco, CA) The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, recently released its Municipal Equality Index (MEI) scorecard awarding the

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Crimes Against Muslim Americans and Mosques Rise Sharply

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 December 18th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the United States have tripled in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., with dozens occurring within just a month, according to new data.

The

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From CAHRO’s own Brian Levin: Study: In Wake of Terror, Anti-Muslim Crimes Escalate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 December 18th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Average Monthly Totals of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Nearly Triple
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks of November, 13 that left 130 dead and the San Bernardino, Calif. terror attack of December 2 that killed 14 and left another 22 wounded, anti-Muslim hate crime attacks appear to have risen sharply across the United States to

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State investigators cite culture of abuse, racism by High Desert State Prison guards

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 December 17th, 2015|Police & Community|

State investigators are calling for immediate action at a Northern California prison with an “entrenched culture” of racism and violence, where guards allegedly have set inmates up for attack.

In a special report released Wednesday, the independent Office of Inspector General said that abuse and cover-ups at the High Desert State Prison in Susanville were so

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Choose Your Own Identity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 December 15th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m Chinese-American and my husband is white, an American of English-Dutch-Irish descent; we have two children. My 5-year-old knows my parents were born in China,

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For black students at Texas, Supreme Court remarks are a burden added

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 14th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As a chemical engineering major who aced high school science courses and was a regional leader in the National Society of Black Engineers, becoming a physics tutor at the University of Texas at Austin came easily to Claiborne Jones.

But students never seemed to seek his help.

“People I was tutoring would blow

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With Remarks in Affirmative Action Case, Scalia Steps Into ‘Mismatch’ Debate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 11th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scaliahesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than

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U.S. Police Leaders, Visiting Scotland, Get Lessons on Avoiding Deadly Force

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 11th, 2015|Police & Community|

TULLIALLAN, Scotland — The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.

But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the

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Middle-class families, pillar of the American dream, are no longer in the majority, study finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 10th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

The nation’s middle class, long a pillar of the U.S. economy and foundation of the American dream, has shrunk to the point where it no longer constitutes the majority of the adult population, according to a new major study.

The Pew Research Center report released Wednesday put in sharp relief the nation’s increasing income divide, which

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How Minorities Have Fared in States With Affirmative Action Bans

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 10th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The Supreme Court for the second time heard arguments on how race is used in admissions decisions by the University of Texas at Austin, with a majority of justices expressing doubts that the university’s plan is constitutional. A ban on affirmative action could lead to fewer minority admissions, as it has in some states that

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