The U.S. Department of Education’s (Department’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Dear Colleague Letter Tuesday to schools specifying with concrete examples the application of Title VI of the ...

On May 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) again issued guidance in the form of a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to educational institutions discussing how Title VI ...

On April 17, the Anchorage VA facility’s Chief of Staff and Associate Chief of Staff of Behavioral Health ordered the end to a long-running transgender peer group. This group connected vulnerable ...

In late June, Senate Bill 156, "Fairness in Women's Sports Act," was vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards. This bill would have prohibited transgender girls from participating in girls' sports teams. Sadly ...

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How long will they, our Legislature, go on abusing our patience? These bills that discriminate against our fellow citizens are gross violations of their fundamental rights and, in both the short and ...

Let’s start with two letters this week. No. 1: Q: I am an advertising creative who has been unemployed for over six months. I’m having difficulty finding a full-time role because I fear that, in my ...

Re: the March 2 article "UA's cashless policy a bad idea." In David Devine's column about the UA's cashless policy, he described himself as one of many people over 65 who don't have a smartphone. I am ...

This is what systemic inequality and housing discrimination looks like. The town of Vail is gearing up to leverage the full force of local government to systemically exclude and discriminate against a ...

My VIew Rev. Victor Roth’s arguments favoring marriage discrimination, in his letter to the editor published June 11, are pervasively illogical, and reveal the same religiously-motivated antigay ...

I am frustrated with the discrimination shown by almost every media outlet against those who do not have a computer or a smart phone. We are concerned with everyone but those who cannot afford those ...