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The march will go on. A big LGBTQ Pride parade wasn’t part of NYC’s coronavirus Phase 2 reopening this week. But this Sunday two organizations will still recognize — one virtually, the other with an in-person gathering — the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March on June 28, 1970. In lieu of a march through …
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The United Nations Human Rights Council has decided to hold a urgent debate on racism and police brutality in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. The proposal, made by a group of African countries led by Burkina Faso, was approved on Monday by the U.N.’s top human rights body. The debate on …
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“Harry Potter” star Emma Watson has become the latest figure to weigh in on the controversy provoked by the book series author J.K. Rowling’s series of tweets about trans people. “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say …
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“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has thrown herself into the goblet of fire once again after publishing a personal essay that details — and doubles down on — her controversial views on transgender issues. The lengthy explainer posted Wednesday on her website comes just after the author was lambasted online for a series of tweets …
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After blasting “Vanderpump Rules” cast members Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute for their alleged racist behavior, Faith Stowers is now calling out the reality show’s head honcho: Lisa Vanderpump. On the “Red Flags Make Cute Scarves” podcast, Stowers, 31, said that Vanderpump, 59, is more outspoken in her support of other causes than the Black …
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Oprah Winfrey will lead a conversation with black thought leaders, activists and artists next week called “OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?,” Variety reports. The two-night special will air on the host’s OWN channel on June 9 and 10 at 9 p.m. ET and will also be simulcast across the network’s parent company …
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This is the central premise of Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel in which a Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in 1922. My university students selected Towles’s novel as the final text in our course on Favorite Books, unaware that we would be replicating the protagonist’s experience at the end of …
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Despite the centrality of rights in American history, it’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place. “That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent …
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Video footage shot Monday by a bystander shows a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man, who can be heard pleading with the officers before passing out and later dying in police custody. “I cannot breathe! I cannot breathe!” the man, identified as George Floyd, can be heard yelling, along …
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Firearms are the most practical and effective way for the average American to secure his or her life, liberty, and property. A common joke in the American gun community goes something like this: Q: Why do you carry a gun? A: Because carrying a cop is too heavy. This humorous quip should not detract from …
The march will go on. A big LGBTQ Pride parade wasn’t part of NYC’s coronavirus Phase 2 reopening this week. But this Sunday two organizations will still recognize — one virtually, the other with an in-person gathering — the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March on June 28, 1970. In lieu of a march through …
