What is woke and what does it really mean?
"Woke" is a term appropriated from Black communities and has now been used by the right against them and other groups.
March 7, 2025
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In 2021, Juneteenth became the latest federal holiday in the US — the first to be approved since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
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Trans Artist Cassils’ Latest Project: Canning Sh*t From Andy Warhol
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Harris Calls Buttigieg Campaign's Stock Photo of Black Woman a Mistake
The Buttigieg campaign's use of a random stock photo of a Kenyan woman for a plan to address racial inequality is the latest in a line of gaffes around the black community.
November 18, 2019
Protesters Block L.A. Intersection to Protest Inequality at UCLA
A large group of protesters associated with the union AFSCME Local 3299 gathered in West Los Angeles to protest racial and gender inequality within the UC system.
April 5, 2018
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If there's one thing teachers can agree on, it's that government overreach has gone too far.
February 25, 2024
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Those are among several positions newly posted to his campaign website.
May 16, 2019
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A report from the United Nations Working Group outlines the many ways African-Americans have suffered because of racism, white supremacy, and Afrophobia.
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The many terms the Trump administration really hates
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And so must the LGBTQ movement in general, writes Alphonso David, HRC's president.
September 26, 2019
Gillibrand, Inslee Make Only Mentions of LGBTQ Rights at Debate
The New York senator raised her record fighting to repeal anti-LGBTQ military policies. And the Washington governor promised to be an ally.
August 1, 2019
Dems Wore White, But 'A Day Without a Woman' Is Seeing Red
White is the color of suffragettes but the organizers of upcoming strike A Day Without a Woman have called for solidarity in red for the strike on March 8.
March 2, 2017
Obama Defends Manning Commutation, Lauds LGBT Activists
In his final presidential press conference, he touted LGBT advances but didn't take all the credit.
January 18, 2017
Op-ed: What If Stonewall Happened Now?
The catalyst and the heartache, as revisited with Ferguson on our TV screens.
November 26, 2014
National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: New Progress, Old Challenges
Things are getting better, but not fast enough, writes Jennifer Sherwood of amfAR.
March 10, 2016
New York State Lawmaker to File STI Decriminalization Bill
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas's bill would decriminalize the sexual activity of people living with sexually transmitted infections.
December 1, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Clarence Thomas in Affirmative Action Dissent
Thomas accused the court's newest justice of casting all Black people as victims and wanting to "reallocate society’s riches by racial means."
June 29, 2023
Grand Army Tackles Queer Issues, Race, Class in Brooklyn High School
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