Four military servicewomen, who all served tours in Afghanistan or Iraq, filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco on Tuesday seeking to end the Pentagon’s ban on women serving in direct combat jobs.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/us/servicewomen-file-suit-over-direct-combat-ban.html?hpw
Gay “conversion therapy,” which claims to help men overcome unwanted same-sex attractions but has been widely attacked as unscientific and harmful, is facing its first tests in the courtroom.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/us/gay-conversion-therapy-faces-tests-in-courts.html?hpw&_r=0
The plaintiffs say current rules limit their potential for promotions. ‘The modern battlefield means there are no front lines or safe areas,’ says one.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-women-in-combat-20121128,0,3989656.story
In 1996, Kathryn Lehman was a soon-to-be married lawyer working for Republicans in the House of Representatives. One of her major accomplishments: helping to write the law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/us/politics/lesbian-republicans-long-a-rare-political-breed-raise-their-profiles.html?ref=us&_r=0
He is the first Democrat on the board in more than two decades. He’s also the first new supervisor in 18 years. And he’s a gay, married father of five.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-san-diego-supervisor-20121124,0,981966.story
An African American police officer and his family said they fled their upscale Orange County community after rocks were thrown through their windows, their tires were slashed and racial taunts were shouted by passing motorists. Last month, someone shot corrosive acid pellets into his garage, which damaged his car.
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The next House of Representatives will have a dozen members of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent, the largest such caucus in history.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-asians-congress-20121120,0,3367684.story
As many of you know, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday declared Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions to be unconstitutional.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/49589/
Worries about the quality of undergraduate education tend to be magnified by concerns about the increasing diversity of students entering college.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Diversity-Bolsters/135858/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The organizers of this year’s meeting of the American Anthropological Association knew that the presidential election would provide plenty of fodder for scholarly discussions, regardless of whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama won.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/RacismDemographobia-/135802/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en