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All posts tagged "Race, Ethnicity and Gender"
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596NewsAlabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the...
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1.1KNewsLGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan
The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under...
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2.7KNews‘There’s no safe place’: One queer youth shelter serves all of New Mexico
LGBTQ+ youth experience homelessness at significantly higher rates than their peers. In Albuquerque, New Mexico's only shelter specifically for queer young people provides...
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1.3KNewsLatino activism leads in grassroot efforts on climate change
After experiencing global warming's firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from...
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2.7KNews‘Without language, we are nothing’: New Mexico to pay Native-language teachers equally
Today, students in New Mexico schools can study many of the eight indigenous languages of New Mexico’s 23 tribal entities. It’s an...
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1.0KFrom the BureausThere’s litigation and innovation involving LGBTQ juveniles, a disproportionately larger group
Tailor-made services are important for many justice-involved LGBTQ youth and young adults their advocates contend, because those individuals’ encounters with law enforcement,...
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624NewsSouthern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers
A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention's mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the...
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835NewsUS finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far
A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society...
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1.1KNewsHow popular merit scholarships have perpetuated racial inequities across the South
The message seems simple: Anyone can get most, or even all, of their tuition paid through the state’s signature college scholarship program....
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719NewsAfterschool program expanded to help Latino families during the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of young people and the programs that serve them, but some out-of-school time organizations have...
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612NewsLawmakers in 19 states want legal refuge for trans youth
Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California's lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth...
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1.4KNewsMega dance company bred culture of sex, silence, dancers say
Every year, one of the world's leading dance competition companies sells the dream of Hollywood fame to hundreds of thousands of ambitious...
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1.9K► NewsmakersEric Morrison-Smith named executive director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color
Eric Morrison-Smith is the new executive director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, succeeding Marc Philpart, who is leaving...
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1.1KNewsTrans kids fear Alabama laws targeting medicine, bathrooms
Alabama is among multiple states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills not only to block medical treatment but to ban transgender...
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1.1KNewsFirst pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...
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928NewsGeorgia lawmakers hand transgender decision to sports group
Georgia lawmakers dumped the thorny problem of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play high school sports onto the state's main...
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1.5KNews‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten...
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1.1KNewsMichigan law adds mandatory reporters after Nassar scandal
Physical and occupational therapists and athletic trainers will now be required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under a new Michigan...
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1.1KNewsFirst but not last: Black girls see themselves in court pick
For Black girls, the possibility of Jackson being the first Black woman on the Supreme Court is a moment of promise, hope...
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2.4KNewsNew Mexico officials hope to open state’s first safe house for sex trafficked youth
Though popular portrayals of human trafficking tend to conjure ideas of violent kidnappings and cross-border human smuggling, the majority of sexual exploitation...
