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AHEAD OF MIDTERMS, TEXAS REPUBLICANS SET OMINOUS AGENDA FOR TRANS PEOPLE

AHEAD OF MIDTERMS, TEXAS REPUBLICANS SET OMINOUS AGENDA FOR TRANS PEOPLE

by Jenny Huh | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Six-year-old Isa says she doesn’t mind being a girl with a penis. “Yep, very happy,” said Isa, formerly Isaac, who, according to her mother Violet A., has identified herself as a girl since she started speaking at two. Though she’s too young to know that...
IN ABSENCE OF FEDERAL LAW AGAINST LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION, OPENLY LGBTQ MAYORS ADVOCATE FOR COMMUNITIES IN DIFFERENT WAYS

IN ABSENCE OF FEDERAL LAW AGAINST LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION, OPENLY LGBTQ MAYORS ADVOCATE FOR COMMUNITIES IN DIFFERENT WAYS

by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics

In 2009, Carrboro, North Carolina Alderman Lydia Lavelle asked the state legislature for permission to include LGBTQ people in Carrboro’s laws banning housing discrimination. Lawmakers said no. North Carolina’s statewide anti-discrimination law does not include...
Captured: Inside Donald Trump’s stunning upset

Captured: Inside Donald Trump’s stunning upset

by David Fishman | Nov 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured

NEW YORK — In a stunning upset, Republican Donald Trump Wednesday morning was elected the 45th president of the United States — ending a dramatic campaign by assuring voters he would seek to unify a broken country. Here are some captured moments from inside the...

House Democrats return to “War on Poverty” ideals in face of economic inequality

by Cat Zakrzewski | Jan 8, 2014 | Politics

WASHINGTON — On the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, his  eldest daughter commemorated what she called America’s “moral obligation” to raise its citizens from poverty during a ceremony Wednesday at the Capitol. Rep. Barbara Lee,...
Obama to Republicans: War ‘is not a game’

Obama to Republicans: War ‘is not a game’

by Shirley Li | Mar 6, 2012 | National Security, Politics

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama faced an eager press Tuesday in his first official news conference this year, taking on tough topics ranging from the question of possible U.S. involvement in Syria to conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. After quickly...
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