civil rights
Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
July 30, 2015The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately.
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Sandra Bland had the right to say “no”
July 24, 2015Some day organized dissent will change the system that allows cases like that of Sandra Bland to occur; let's make that day happen sooner rather than later.
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Sandra Bland’s jailers spinning autopsy results
July 24, 2015The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
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Jews, the civil rights movement, Israel: hot topics in Open HIllel tour
July 24, 2015In each of the campuses where they refused Open Hillel's request that we vets be permitted to speak, the Open Hillel students arranged alternative campus venues.
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Ohioans protest as Kasich announces his campaign for presidency
July 24, 2015Ohioans fed up with John Kasich's pro-1 percent policies came out in droves to protest their governor as he announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president
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