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It’s June, so we receive relentless messaging about the importance of “Pride” for the LGBTQIA community. One prominent vehicle was the cover of the “Pride Issue” of People magazine dated June 20, featuring “Robin Roberts In Her Own Words: Love, Faith, & Breaking Barriers.”

Monday, June 13, 2022 - We start today by acknowledging June as Pride Month by sharing another episode of Breaking Barriers: Harvesting LGBTQ Stories on the Northern Plains. It’s part of the Red River Rainbow Seniors oral history project. In this excerpt, Lyle Halvorson interviews Kevin Tengesdal, a graphic designer and activist from Bismarck. ~~~ The State Historical Society of North Dakota is looking for stories about the 1997 floods. It’s part of the historical society’s oral history pr...

Purpose-driven content marketing is key for 2022 and beyond...

A NEW charity partnership has been launched in Scotland, with the goal of supporting young people with learning disabilities, helping them in the…

Sharan Dhaliwal, the author of “Burning My Roti,” gets personal and honest, touching on her experiences with racism, body image disorders, and self-loathing while growing up.

Hundreds of local families attended a celebratory event at Deeplish Community Centre in honour of the Queen’s Platinum...

Garcia is running against a pair of challengers in a newly drawn Assembly district that includes Indio and Coachella in the eastern Coachella Valley.

UK festival lineups are still male-dominated, and even queer-friendly events tend to centre gay men. We join the mullets and harnesses at a new event trying to change things

Are you a woman who has thought of having a career in the TV or film industry? If so, you would have enjoyed the recent initiative from Paula Crickard, head of post-production at Holywood Studio Millennium (that's Holywood, County Down).

We find out what her daily work looks like in safety planning for technology, her perspective on being a female leader in tech, and some of her recent work in safety developments and preventing online harms.