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Amid 'Epidemic' of Campus Sexual Assault, Women's Groups Decry Rollback of Protections by 'See No Evil Betsy Devos'

According to the New York Times, the rules narrow the definition of sexual harassment, require survivors to go through more extensive processes to file complaints, and only hold schools responsible for addressing sexual misconduct of their students when it occurs on their campuses. (Photo: Christine Baker/The Patriot-News)

'Stuff of Slumlords': Carson Plan Would Triple Rent on Poorest Americans

Julia Conley, staff writer

"It is ironic that a man who used taxpayer dollars to buy a $30,000 dining room table for the federal agency he leads wants to raise rent on poor people."

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In Win for Women, New Jersey Enacts Nation's Strongest Equal Pay Law

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"At a time when women's rights are under attack in most of our country, New...

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Putting Fair Housing Investigations on Back-Burner, Trump's HUD Abandons Core Mission

Julia Conley, staff writer

"For all intents and purposes, this administration is stopping the enforcement...

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LGBTQ Rights Groups Denounce Trump's 'Reckless' New Proposal Banning Transgender Service Members

For Defending Discrimination of Homeless Transgender People, Ben Carson's Fearmongering Called 'Deeply Alarming'

HUD Secretary Ben Carson

Ben Carson Catches Heat for Cutting 'Free From Discrimination' Promise Out of HUD Mission

Sessions Issues Blatant 'License to Discriminate' With 'Religious Freedom' Memo

AG Jeff Sessions

Sessions Denounced for 'Appalling Assault' on Transgender Workers' Rights

According to the lawsuit, "Google has discriminated and continues to discriminate against its female employees by systematically paying them lower compensation than Google pays to male employees performing substantially similar under similar working conditions."

Google Sued for 'Systematically' Segregating Women Into Lower-Paying Jobs

Newswire

ACLU

ACLU and Workers Take On Facebook for Gender Discrimination in Job Ads

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to DOJ’s Attack on Racial Diversity in Harvard Case

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Federal Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Litigation Challenging 2020 Census Citizenship Question

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Voting Rights Groups Demand Election Officials Reverse Plan to Close Polling Places in Majority-Black County

ACLU

ACLU Files Complaint With DHS Over Unfair Blacklisting of U.S. Citizen

Common Cause

Groundswell of Opposition Tells Commerce Department to Scrap the Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump Is Strangling the U.S. Refugee Program to Death

Lara Merling

Puerto Rico’s Colonial Legacy and Its Continuing Economic Troubles

Will Bunch

Trumpism Is Fueled by One Thing: Fear. 12,800 Kids Are Paying a Terrible Price

Deepa Iyer

A Perfect Storm in the Making for 17 Years: A Reflection and Call to Action

Thom Hartmann

The Ongoing Kaepernick Controversy Shows Much of White America Is Still in 'Slave Patrol' Mode

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

This Woman Is Going to Prison for Voting

Robert C. Koehler

What Healing Looks Like When Justice Restores

Jesse Jackson

NFL Owners’ Treatment of Colin Kaepernick Disgraces League and Country

Calvin Schermerhorn

Prisoner Strike Exposes an Age Old American Reliance on Forced Labor

Sonali Kolhatkar

How One Deportee Is Helping Other Exiled Immigrants in Mexico

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