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Faith Groups Urge Pompeo to Abolish the Commission on Unalienable Rights

26 Jul 2019
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Alison Lesley

Human Rights First coalition Hundreds have come out against this commission. The goal of the commission is to sift through the rights guaranteed in past laws and declarations, such as the 1948...

How American Jewish Women Shaped American Culture: An Interview with Pamela S. Nadell

08 Jul 2019
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Joseph Preville

How American Jewish Women have left a legacy that reverberates across American history. For more than three and a half centuries, Jewish women have paved a road for themselves to thrive in the United...

How Writings in the Quran Supported Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Equality Movement

27 Jun 2019
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Anila Sadiq

Portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goals to eradicate racial inequality were echoed in the Quran some 1,300 years prior. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived a life worth living. He worked diligently...

LGBTQ Civil Rights Support Highest Among Atheists, Agnostics, and Unitarians

31 Mar 2019
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Kelly Frazier

Agnostics rank one point higher than atheists. As per data by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a vast majority of Sixty-nine percent of Americans favor laws which would protect such...

Democrats Introduce Equality Act for LGBTQ Americans

16 Mar 2019
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Elisa Meyer

A person's rights should not depend on a zip code. The bill would edit current legislation on civil rights to ban any discrimination against any LGBTQ person in the context of employment, public...

Atheists May Receive Civil Rights Protections in Portland, Oregon

16 Feb 2019
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Gary Nguyen

Portland has a large population who identify as being religiously unaffiliated. The city of Currently, the city law doesn't have special protections in place for people who are non-adherents to religion,...

Nancy Pelosi Appoints Indian-American Woman to the Commission of USCIRF

17 Dec 2018
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Gary Nguyen

Her experience with Anthem of Us played a big role in the appointment Her appointment was made by Nancy Pelosi, an elected Democrat from California. Bhargava is at present the President of strategic...

25 Years Ago Bill Clinton Signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

20 Nov 2018
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Nathan Glover

What was once heralded by both parties, soon became seen as a tool used against LGBT civil rights. It was a success by any legal yardstick. The RFRA was passed in 1993 by an almost unanimous Congress,...

Civil Rights Groups Intensify Calls to Stop Online Hate Speech

30 Oct 2018
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Kelly Frazier

Activists want to end the spread of hate online. The latest call was undertaken hours after it was revealed the suspect in the Tree of Life Synagogue slayings spread hate speech on the website Gab.com....

Black Baptist Groups Announce Plan to Stand Apart from Conservatives and White Liberals

14 Oct 2018
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Gary Nguyen

They refuse to be guided by either the liberal left or the hard right. Representatives of National Baptist Convention USA and Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC), both black Baptist denominations,...