Democrats reintroduce federal Transgender Bill of Rights legislation
A proposal to codify protections from discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity in federal law previously stalled in the House.
By 19th News - April 01, 2023A proposal to codify protections from discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity in federal law previously stalled in the House.
By 19th News - April 01, 2023Pope’s formative essay in 1960 encouraging the fight for civil rights was published in the New York Times and several newspapers around the country, pushing Americans against segregation throughout the country.
By Associated Press - February 14, 2023Multiple organizations advocating for marginalized Americans and progressives called President Biden’s action ‘historic,’ ‘life-changing’ step for millions.
By Oliver Willis - August 26, 2022More lawmakers are introducing and passing legislation to protect LGBTQ people in their jurisdictions from the discriminatory laws of other states.
By Casey Quinlan - May 19, 2022Florida’s Republican governor has passed a flurry of bills this month attacking abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights, making districts less representative, and creating a police force just for elections.
By Adrian Cole - April 28, 2022The bill simply adds ‘applicants’ to existing age discrimination protections.
By Josh Israel - November 04, 2021Cristina Nichole Iglesias is seeking gender-affirming surgery after waiting for years.
By Casey Quinlan - October 21, 2021The Alabama senator recentlypressed Biden’s nominee to lead the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, about policies regarding transgender athletes.
By Casey Quinlan - July 14, 2021‘We will not leave any stone unturned to save American democracy,’ said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2021‘This ruling is much worse than we had anticipated,’ said an attorney for the Brennan Center for Justice.
By Associated Press - July 02, 2021The judge did allow claims against the Metropolitan Police Department and the Arlington Police Department, whose officers fired smoke bombs and pepper balls on protesters at Lafayette Square last summer, to proceed.
By Associated Press - June 22, 2021Campsites used by voting rights marchers in 1965 need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021‘We will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention,’ said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
By Associated Press - May 20, 2021‘What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do today,’ the Rev. Al Sharpton said.
By Associated Press - May 07, 2021But some of the same states that are expanding rights are at the same time trying to restrict them.
By Casey Quinlan - May 04, 2021Corporate endorsements of the Equality Act have more than doubled since the House first passed it in 2019.
By Associated Press - April 27, 2021‘What we did in the 20th century was the first Great Awakening of resistance to the racist systems. And I maintain that Black Lives Matter is the heir of that campaign,’ the Rev. James Lawson said.
By Associated Press - April 25, 2021Four Black students were refused service and declined to give up their seats at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
By Associated Press - April 20, 2021The ad also points out the filibuster was ‘used’ by former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, an opponent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
By Josh Israel - April 13, 2021State lawmakers who’ve introduced discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ minors are on ‘notice,’ legal experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - April 06, 2021For the second time in as many days, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to adjourn the House to avoid a vote on the Equality Act.
By Emily Singer - February 25, 2021The Trump administration’s latest effort comes at the ’11th hour,’ one expert says, but may still be hard to undo later on.
By Casey Quinlan - January 10, 2021Black voters were a driving national force pushing the former vice president to victory over Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - December 09, 2020An internal report found that a former FEMA official had improper sexual relationships with subordinates and created a ‘toxic’ work environment.
By Associated Press - December 03, 2020Many of the review team appointees are graduates of historically Black colleges and universities.
By Associated Press - November 12, 2020The new laws seek to reduce racial disparities in maternal deaths and protect Black job applicants and employees from discrimination.
By Donna Provencher - October 11, 2020‘Each generation, there has been someone to pick up the torch.’
By Associated Press - September 13, 2020‘The women’s movement is not giving up until this thing is in the Constitution, period.’
By Associated Press - August 18, 2020Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, is one of the few leaders of the civil rights movement still in elective office today.
By Associated Press - August 18, 2020‘There is no title or honor on earth I’ll treasure more than to say I am Shyamala Gopalan Harris’ daughter.’
By Associated Press - August 16, 2020