It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination.
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World’s military spending was $1.7 trillion in 2015, marking a 1 percent increase from 2014.
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Initial media reports suggested that Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, Iceland’s Prime Minister, had resigned, but he now insists he’s merely taking a break from ruling the government.
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Published April 7, 2o16 AMARILLO, TEXAS – The Longest Walk 5 – War on Drugs and Domestic Violence was invited by Charles Richie to stay once again at the Kwahadi Museum of the American Indian. Previous Longest Walks stayed at the musuem eight years ago and five years ago. The Long Walkers arrived on March 6, […]
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Published April 7, 2016 WINSLOW, ARIZONA — Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the brutal killing of Navajo citizen Loreal Tsingine on Easter Sunday by Winslow Police Officer Austin Shipley. President Begaye says Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch will be working with the United States […]
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Guest Commentary Published April 7, 2016 A rich and storied history connects health and people of color in America. The architects of our nation’s civil rights and health equity movements led major change in addressing the disparities that prevented minority populations from enjoying the same health status as other Americans. During National Minority Health Month […]
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Published April 6, 2016 WASHINGTON — In a news release issued on Wednesday, it was disclosed Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) would work to issue a subpoena to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to compel her attendance at a Committee on Indian Affairs field hearing in Arizona on “Examining […]
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By Mike Kuhlenbeck More than a hundred writers have signed a letter calling on the PEN America Center “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for the 12th annual World Voices Festival in New York City. The New York-based grassroots organization Adalah-NY published what was initially a private letter to PEN American Center on April […]
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