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Dozens march in Ukraine's first-ever gay rally
At least 50 gay rights activists have marched peacefully in the country's first gay rally despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event. Participants of the Saturday's rally in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, held banners against discrimination and derogatory stereotypes of gays. Riot police guarded the rally and ...
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations ...
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains. ...
TF school tries new trick to combat bullying
Children who are bullied live in fear of coming to school each day. They suffer in silence afraid it will get worse if they say something or because they believe adults won't do anything about it. According to the American Academy of Child and Adult Psychiatry, "some victims of bullying ...
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movement and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the ...
UI graduate writes of growing up on reservation
As a kid growing up on a Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, Deborah Taffa's parents sheltered her as long as they could from the gruesome details of the history between the U.S. government and American Indian tribes. It wasn't until as a 17-year-old public high ...
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations ...
Elite NYC school apologizes for past abuse
The Horace Mann School, one of New York City's most prestigious private schools, has apologized for more than three decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by some of its teachers and administrators, according to a letter posted on its website. Friday's letter apologizes for abuse by former teachers and administrators between ...
Friday, June 1
Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2013. There are 213 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1479 - The University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is founded. 1524 - The yearlong anti-aristocratic Peasants' War breaks out in southern Germany. 1562 - Holy Roman Emperor ...
Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS
Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance. He's the rare black host with national TV and radio platforms, one who sees his job as challenging Americans to examine their assumptions on such thorny issues as poverty, ...
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