With a new wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation coming out of the first days of 2025, Laverne Cox is well aware of the cultural ...
Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights leader. However, the holiday wasn’t signed ...
Lakeville school district leaders are again debating a series of classroom posters — and the messages of diversity, equity ...
About 7000 Equal Rights Amendment demonstrators in protest in Raleigh in 1982 after the legislature buried the issue. File photo This week, our nation took a historic step forward after President ...
It's very different from many of its neighbours where most nations oppose gay rights. Opinion polls have also shown overwhelming public support for equal marriage. But the kingdom remains a ...
The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was ... [+] held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago ...
Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...
President Biden is being pressured to have published the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit sex discrimination. Donald Trump’s reported ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden released a statement Friday saying he believes the Equal Rights Amendment should be added as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, despite a statement from the ...
Progressive activists in Congress have put mounting pressure on President Joe Biden to direct the archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment — which would become ...
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WASHINGTON—President Biden moved to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, declaring that the measure to prohibit sex-based discrimination had cleared the necessary hurdles to ...