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New webinar discusses recent legal developments and anticipated decisions affecting the LGBTQ+ community. We will review recent judicial decisions, cases we are monitoring, and developments from state legislatures.

In the building. theyre currently investigating and everyone in the building is going to be charged. just looking out. this is all according to the department of justice indictment. do you think this is an open and shut case in terms of this officers involvement? >> well, it certainly is evidence of obstruction and it shows how serious the department is taking this whole insurrection. this is sort of on the fringe, but theyre saying, hey, heres a capitol policeman who probably had some inside ru...

Media can be argued that petito found in part due to the internet sleuths combing through clues. could social media play a role in cases that have been overlooked by traditional media and law enforcement and change the fate of missing people of color? >> it is possible. this is something that i asked the professor and she said that it is true theres more segments in social media to, people to build momentum in smaller groups whether thats an affinity group, a racial group geographically and bord...

2021 With the end of Pride Month and the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, The Crimson explored BGLTQ stories, on- and off-campus, those of others and their own. Here’s a collection of those investigations, opinions, and perspectives. The Crimson’s BGLTQ Affinity Group — led by Crimson News and Magazine writer Meimei Xu ’24 and Arts writer Jamila R. O’Hara ’23 — spearheaded the production of this special issue. Advertisement

Racist. we see it when places like "the washington post" ask us to join white accountability groups. >> white people have to start getting together specifically around race. >> white accountability groups are really helpful in terms of having a place to process having group of people whose responsibility it is to call me on things or to challenge me. >> most of us in doing this work have experienced this where there is a period of deep shame for being white and for acknowledging the harms our an...

So yeah. youll hear all these cherry picked stories. a lot of them were not verifiable that the other side is putting out there. youre not going on hear, and you should, what is happening. you wont hear that it was the reason why a school teacher was fired. you wont hear about the affinity groups in colleges and universities, and the programs, the educational programs being canceled. so we need to see materially what this is doing in order to weigh into this. if anyone was mobilized by last year...

Theyre called affinity groups or different meetings or different programs that are catered to students based on their race. and only after parents push back on this or somebody objects do they say its open to everybody. paul: so at the k-12 level, how widespread are these disputes? are we seeing them break out across the country and i guess this is grass roots reaction from local parents? >> it is. you know, its really surprising. i think that weve seen already the critical theories take over hi...

Public schools are training children to become race-conscious revolutionaries. There are only a few places on earth where radicals and their children ritualistically burn the American flag and chant "Death to America": Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut,...

Olivia Volpe of Watchung,  Hugh Zhang of Basking Ridge According to The Cum Laude Society, each Chapter may elect students who are enrolled in a college preparatory curriculum and “who have had an honor record up to the time of election and stand in the first fifth of their class…Each Chapter shall determine the method in which an honor record and class standing shall be ascertained…Chapters shall be free to elect members who have demonstrated academic excellence in accordance with the p...

When assistant director of Multicultural Student Affairs Christine Munteanu co-founded the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Staff Affinity Group in 2018, only 10 to 15 people attended each meeting. Now, the group has 170 members. ASAG is open to all Northwestern staff members who self-identify as part of the APIDA, or Asian Pacific Islander Desi American, community. The group seeks to build a sense of community and support institutional racial and social justice initiatives by representing ...