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General Lews Book Club invites Ray Boomhower Saturday, March 6, 2021 4:00 AM The Hoosier Authors Book Club continues its sixth year with a special virtual meeting. The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s book club invite Hoosier author Ray E. Boomhower to visit Crawfordsville virtually. The discussion will be held online at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, via a Zoom discussion. Books are currently available for checkout at the Carriage House. The book for this meet...

Opportunity for all. we had a number of agents come here and none of them did find an african-american. your charge of civil rights and making people feel youre fighting for equality. you mentioned charlottesville and charging the person with 30 counts, and i applaud you for that. do you believe that in charlottesville they were good people on both sides? >> congressman, i think the act, while -- again, part of an ongoing prosecution, i can tell you the act was charged as a hate crime. >> i agre...

Them thought they could find or did find an african-american at d.o.j. to bring with them. and youre charged with enforcing civil rights and making people feel that youre fighting for equality. you mentioned charlottesville and charging the person with 30 counts and i applaud you for that. do you believe that in charlottesville there were good people on both sides? >> um, congressman, i think the act, while -- you know, again, part of an ongoing prosecution -- >> let me say this. >> the act was ...

With namibia after possibly running away from lions. to lebanon now and the ongoing struggle there for l.g.b. to you rights being transgender isnt illegal in lebanon but members of that community face widespread discrimination you know you news met a transgender woman in beirut whos fighting for equality. this tiny apartment has become done as only safe space in her hometown of beirut. even going outside to meet up with close family members can be very difficult and i was a. few dollars imagine ...

>> not a retweeter. >> reporter: demanding inclusion in chicago. >> this is what america looks like. >> reporter: fighting for equality in new york. >> were out here because women have decided that they want to take back the conversation and they insist on being part of it. >> reporter: todays march takes place a year after organizers stage one of the largest protests in american history. a day after president trumps inauguration. >> people wanted to run towards something and they ran towards th...

Marching today throughout the day as well. many people carrying signs that echo the same sentiments of what they are saying. and even though many of the signs were anti-administration, the event organizer tells fox news the real focus should simply be on women. >> we are pro-women. we want womens voices to come out and be heard. womens voices were never heard -- before trump and after trump and during trump. we need to fight for equality. thats what these are about, fighting for equality. these ...

To same-sex couples in states where their marriages are legal? under doma same-sex couples from denied more than 1,100 federal benefits that would be granted to straight couples. now, the plaintiff, 83-year-old edie windsor, got a bill for more than a quarter of a million dollars in inheritance taxes because doma presented the irs from recognizing her marriage to her wife, thea spire. taxes she would not have had to pay if thea had been a man. coling out of the court today she said thats not the...

international gathering and that means protesters. groups or individuals with something to say always seek out these events and the television cameras that cover them. we want to go straight now to chicago. paul, tell me about this domestic terrorist sceting that netted some potential troublemakers? >> reporter: what happened was authorities here in chicago have arrested three young suspects, all of them 20-somethings. they brought them into court today after arresting them wednesday a...