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Transgender advocates and opponents showed no signs of slowing after the justices’ highly anticipated ruling, with both sides ...
Along with parades and festivals across the country for people to celebrate their true selves this Pride Month, LGBTQ+ advocates are focused on the continued fight for equal rights.
Anti-trans laws aren’t just about bathrooms or sports, they’re about systematically pushing trans individuals out of public ...
Lawmakers reflected on the significance of Juneteenth Wednesday, promising that Massachusetts will fight for and support ...
The June 14 parade route, which is scheduled rain or shine, begins on Clarendon Street near the intersection of St. James ...
As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...
During a time when enslaved Americans sought freedom through escape, Elizabeth Freeman challenged her legal status as property—and won.
“My perception is that oftentimes, the Black fight was for equal rights. Ours is for liberation.” King’s expansive perspective can be found in one of his most famous writings, the 1963 ...
While her contributions are many, Hamer is perhaps most well known for her unwavering fight to expand voting rights for Black ... of exposing the lack of equal representation at the core of ...
Jimmy's grandson, Jason Carter, reflects on the early influences that fueled his grandfather's tireless fight for women's ... South influenced his work on equal rights initiatives — and how ...