Billie Jean King celebrates anniversary of women's voting rights, noting there's more to be done
She adds that many women of color had to wait for the right to vote.
August 27, 2024
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Laphonza Butler, first Black lesbian senator, honors young people in first Senate speech
"Young people are demonstrating their willingness to be the force, the energy, and the face of change," she said.
January 18, 2024
Mitch McConnell’s Dream of a Segregated U.S. Is Being Realized
From their gilded perch, the ‘segregationist six” create an America only accessible to white, straight, wealthy Christians.
June 30, 2023
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters, Against Alabama Voting Maps
Alabama currently has seven congressional districts, with six represented by Republicans.
June 8, 2023
Op-ed: We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
The same people trying to stop same-sex couples from marrying are trying to dilute the 50-year-old Voting Rights Act. Both efforts are equally egregious, says Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
August 6, 2015
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Politics
No One's Discussing The Most Pressing Trump Threat
The president can bully and bluster with executive orders, but his effects on the judicial branch will be even more far-reaching and long-lasting.
March 30, 2017
AG Pick Jeff Sessions Got a Zero on HRC's Scorecard
Sessions voted against expanding hate-crimes law to cover anti-LGBT attacks, opposes marriage equality, and wants to sanction discrimination in the name of "religious freedom."
November 18, 2016
LGBTQ+ Groups Call for Expanding Supreme Court, Lifting Filibuster
"The Supreme Court has lost the public's confidence in its integrity and has eroded its own legitimacy," say four LGBTQ+ legal organizations.
July 5, 2022
Protecting the Right to Vote: The Only Way to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Rights
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day we must fight for the right to vote -- again.
January 17, 2022
Op-ed: Yes, Your Vote Is Being Suppressed
LGBT voters of all races, genders, and economic levels are meeting more roadblocks to vote than anyone would have imagined in 2014.
November 12, 2014
Thousands honor suffragist Susan B. Anthony for Election Day
There's a tradition of leaving "I Voted" stickers on her gravestone on Election Day.
November 5, 2024
We Can Stop the GOP's Disenfranchisement of Black, Trans Voters
McConnell and his ilk will do anything to stop minorities from voting; it must be our mission to win back our inalienable right.
February 2, 2019
The GOP Is Dying. The Only Way They Can Win Is by Cheating
Battling Republican-led voter suppression should be a rallying cry for every LGBTQ+ American.
March 22, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin Is Out to Destroy Democracy, LGBTQ+ Rights
He's a reincarnation of another West Virginia senator who held back progress.
June 8, 2021
1,226 Law Professors Tell Congress to Dump Jeff Sessions
The nation's top legal minds, citing the Republican senator's poor record on civil rights, say he is an "unacceptable" option for attorney general.
January 4, 2017
It’s Time for Biden and Senate Democrats to Save Voting Rights
With voting rights legislation stalled, it's almost as if Mitch McConnell was still majority leader.
July 13, 2021
Op-ed: 10 Drastic Changes Congress Should Make Now
We've got a long road ahead of us if we want to be seen as completely equal in the eyes of the law.
July 25, 2013
SUPREME COURT NAMES FINAL DECISION DAY
The Supreme Court will rule on two landmark marriage equality cases at 10 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
June 25, 2013