There’s a peculiar connection between false reports of bias crime and self-harm.
Civil Rights in America
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Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period.
It’s absurd to believe otherwise.
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When Politics Isn’t Polite
The Family Research Council is calling for the gay-rights movement to tone it down. Here’s why they shouldn’t.
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Akin Unmasks the Pro-Life Movement
Akin’s comment stems from basic assumptions anti-choicers make about women.
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Are Racists Only in One Political Party?
Racial stereotypes are not solely within the purview of the Grand Old Party.
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Why Affirmative Action Still Matters
The Supreme Court justices may disagree with the affirmative action policies challenged in Fisher v. UT Austin, but there is no doubt that they are constitutional and have been effective in making Texas’ university system more racially and socioeconomically diverse.
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Today in Gay and Women’s Rights
Another Tigger day, in the military and in journalism
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Is Marriage Equality the Civil Rights Movement of Our Age?
In this clip from bloggingheads.tv, The New Republic‘s Amy Sullivan debates National Review Online‘s Daniel Foster on whether the fight for marriage equality is the civil rights movement of the modern day.
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Thrown Away for Being Gay
A heartbreaking letter and a story that’s far too familiar
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The Opposite of American
Yesterday’s shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin shows the need to redefine patriotism as respect for religious and ethnic minorities.
