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 ...

Waqaa (Hello), my name is Larapciq Cheri Alstrom and I’m an Alaska Native Yup’ik. Alaska Natives face discrimination and racism daily; not just Alaska Natives, but all Indigenous peoples around the ...

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 ...

Voting is not only our democratic right but a sacred obligation. It is our opportunity to not only elect officials who will represent us, but to participate in a commonwealth-wide conversation that ...

I advocate adding “housing status “ to the existing protected categories in Chico’s broad anti-discrimination laws. Doing so will better protect people experiencing homelessness from being targeted or ...

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Doubtless much will be made in the coming days and weeks of the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the use of race as an admission criterion for educational institutions. One wonders if issue would ...

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 ...

This story was published in partnership with the Texas Observer. In 2016, when Gisella Olivo walked into a four-bedroom house in downtown McKinney, about thirty miles north of Dallas, it immediately ...

My maternal grandparents were Cajun. Letter writer Morgan Landry’s argument is not clarification. It is sentimentality masquerading as judgment. Landry celebrates Cajuns as having been “welcomed with ...