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    The new measure signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday bans an old law that resulted in decades of discrimination by police against women of color and people who are transgender.
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    New York Repeals 'Walking While Trans' Law

    Feb 02, 2021
    The anti-loitering law, passed in 1976, resulted in decades of discrimination by law enforcement against women of color and people who are transgender, critics say.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    A cyclist rides on the sidewalk past a <em>Los Angeles Times</em> advertisement in downtown Los Angeles. The newspaper is being sued by employees alleging pay discrimination.
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    Journalists File Bias Complaint Against LA Times, As Editor Promises Change

    Jun 25, 2020
    On Wednesday LA Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine pledged greater diversity and sensitivity. Yet in court, LA Times journalists allege longstanding bias against Blacks, Hispanics and women.
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    Criminal Justice Collaborative
    A jury awarded Sgt. Keith Wildhaber nearly $20 million in a discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis County Police Department.
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    Missouri Cop Who Says He Was Told 'Tone Down Your Gayness' Wins Discrimination Case

    Oct 30, 2019

    Sgt. Keith Wildhaber sued the St. Louis County Police Department in 2017, alleging he was passed over for promotions because he is gay. A jury agreed and awarded him nearly $20 million on Friday.

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    Goats and Soda
    A month after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, Sherrine Petit Homme LaFrance gets a hug from husband Ferrier Petit Homme. The storm destroyed their home on Grand Abaco Island. They are now living with China Laguerre in Nassau.
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    PHOTOS: After The Storm, Haitians In The Bahamas Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers

    Oct 12, 2019
    One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.
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    Business
    Wanda<strong> </strong>Onafuwa says a house next door to her in Baltimore fell into disrepair after Bank of America foreclosed on the property.
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    A New Trump Rule Could Weaken A Civil Rights Era Housing Discrimination Law

    Jul 31, 2019
    The Trump administration is moving to weaken the Fair Housing Act, according to housing advocates. They say a proposed rule would make it harder to bring lawsuits alleging racial discrimination.
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    Shots - Health News
    Roger Severino, director of the Office for Civil Rights, announced Friday a new proposed rule rolling back anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients. Those protections had been written in 2016 but enjoined in court.
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    Trump Administration Proposes Rule To Reverse Protections For Transgender Patients

    May 24, 2019
    A federal agency issued a proposed rule Friday that rolls back Obama-era protections for transgender patients. Advocates for transgender people say the rule leaves them vulnerable to discrimination.
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    National
    A new study finds that up to 20 percent of the LGBT population in this country live in rural America. For the most part, they chose that life for the same reasons others do: tight-knit communities with a shared sense of values.
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    New Study Finds: LGBT People A 'Fundamental Part of The Fabric Of Rural Communities'

    Apr 04, 2019
    Up to 20 percent of LGBT Americans live in rural parts of the country. A new study says they shouldn't have to choose between being protected from discrimination and choosing where they call home.
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    Appointments Announced For Sexual Harassment Task Force

    Jan 30, 2019
    CARSON CITY, Nevada (AP) — Nevada's attorney general has announced members of a task force aimed at combatting sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
     
    The task force includes a victims' rights advocate, a Nevada police chief and a representa
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    World
    Devotees of Lord Ayyappa, the deity of the Sabarimala temple in India's Kerala state, protest a Supreme Court verdict in Ahmadabad, India, in October. The temple had barred women of menstruating age from entering the temple, but India's Supreme Court str
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    India's Supreme Court Orders Hindu Temple To Open Doors To Women, But Devotees Object

    Dec 22, 2018
    No women ages 10 to 50 have been able to reach the temple since the ruling in September. "I'll block younger women with my own body if I have to," says a woman who waited until age 53 to visit.
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    National
    A black trash bag covers a red swastika painted over a mural at Duke University. Dedicated to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the original mural replaced the yellow star in the Pittsburgh Steelers' emblem with the Star of David and read
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    Swastika Defaces Duke University Mural Honoring Synagogue Shooting Victims

    Nov 20, 2018
    The Nazi symbol was spray-painted over a Star of David on a campus memorial to the 11 people killed last month at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania.
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    Tokyo Medical School Busted For Rigging Women's Tests Admits Rejected Applicants

    Nov 07, 2018
    Months after investigators uncovered the school's discriminatory practices to keep women out of the profession, officials are offering 67 rejected female applicants a spot in the program.
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    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin on Friday against Walmart Inc. for alleged unlawful discrimination against pregnant employees.
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    Federal Commission Sues Walmart For Alleged Discrimination Against Pregnant Employees

    Sep 21, 2018
    The complaint, filed on behalf of Alyssa Gilliam, claims Walmart failed to assign pregnant employees to light duty to save them from heavy lifting, as it does for workers with other disabilities.
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    Reno Police Officer Again Accuses City Of Discrimination

    Aug 13, 2018

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Reno police sergeant has filed another discrimination lawsuit against the city.

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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Kimberly Moreland (left) helped her daughter shop for an insurance plan that would cover Vetens' gender-confirmation surgery. Yet mother and daughter still found themselves caught between the hospital and the insurer.
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    Shifting Federal Policies Threaten Health Coverage For Trans Americans

    Aug 02, 2018
    For trans Americans, the policy landscape has changed under the Trump administration, making it harder to get the cost of treatments such as gender confirmation surgery covered.
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    The Two-Way
    Former Fox News host Kelly Wright joins other current and former Fox employees at a news conference on April 26, 2017, in New York City. Wright alleged racial bias in failing to receive desired opportunities and promotions.
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    Fox News Pays $10 Million To Settle Racial, Gender Bias Suits

    May 16, 2018
    The settlements primarily involved allegations of racial bias against Fox News as well as gender bias and retaliation claims. The controlling Murdoch family hopes instead to focus on big deals ahead.
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    National
    A plaque describing Yawkey Way is pictured on the side of Fenway Park. The street pays homage to former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, who kept his team all-white longer than anyone else, passing up chances to hire future Hall of Famers Jackie Robinson and Wi
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    Boston Red Sox Want To Strike Former Owner's Name Off Street Sign

    Apr 26, 2018
    The team's owners want to rename Yawkey Way, outside Fenway Park, to distance themselves from former owner Tom Yawkey's era of racial discrimination. Others argue that he redeemed himself.
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    The Rise Of The Contract Workers
    Nina Irizarry says she was sexually harassed in various jobs as a contractor, but didn't have a human resources person to turn to or an employer to sue.
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    Unequal Rights: Contract Workers Have Few Workplace Protections

    Mar 26, 2018
    Across a diverse set of industries, contract work is booming, and that is raising concerns about a lack of anti-discrimination, harassment and other legal protections for those workers.
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    Shots - Health News
    How do LGBTQ adults experience discrimination and how does it impact their health? Experts discussed the issue in a webcast from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health.
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    Forum: How Discrimination Damages Health In LGBTQ Communities

    Mar 21, 2018
    How do LGBTQ adults experience discrimination and how does it impact their health? Join us for a discussion with experts in a webcast from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health at noon ET Wednesday.
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    Federal Court Decree Opened Doors For Black Workers In Las Vegas

    Feb 27, 2018

    In the late 1960s and early 1970s, protests, politician action, and court orders chipped away at institutional discrimination in Southern Nevada.

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    Code Switch
    Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil
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    Making The Case That Discrimination Is Bad For Your Health

    Jan 14, 2018
    The researcher who coined the term "weathering" talks with Gene Demby about health, hard data, and why it took so long for people to come around to the idea that discrimination hurts bodies.
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    Shots - Health News
    Several months after she lost her first set of twins, Samantha Pierce got pregnant with Camryn and Caedyn, now 7 years old. For that pregnancy, she was put on bed rest.
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    How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants

    Dec 20, 2017
    African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race. Scientists think that stress from racism makes their bodies and babies more vulnerable.
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    Forum: Examining Discrimination Against Native Americans

    Dec 12, 2017
    How do Native Americans experience discrimination in daily life? Experts in Native American issues discuss the results of an NPR poll showing widespread discrimination across the nation.
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    Shots - Health News
    Anna and her husband, Gene Sorrell, outside their home in Evaro, Mont. Anna eventually received follow-up care for her surgery, but the process took years.
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    Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System

    Dec 12, 2017
    About a quarter of Native Americans report experiencing discrimination in health care, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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    You, Me And Them: Experiencing Discrimination In America
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    Poll: Asian-Americans See Individuals' Prejudice As Big Discrimination Problem

    Dec 05, 2017
    In an NPR poll looking at experience with discrimination, Asian-Americans told us that individual prejudice is a bigger problem than bias by government or laws.
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    You, Me And Them: Experiencing Discrimination In America
    Democratic lawmakers Tony Navarrete (left) and Daniel Hernandez are founding members of Arizona state Legislature's first LGBT caucus, which formed earlier this year. Both believe the growing acceptance of LGBTQ people on the local level will translate i
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    In Arizona, Advocating For The LGBTQ Community Starts In Local Politics

    Nov 26, 2017
    LGBTQ leaders in Arizona have seen their biggest cities grow more welcoming toward the LGBTQ community. They hope that shift will help lead to acceptance across the state.

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