It got better: 10 LGBTQ victories that changed American history projectq.us - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from projectq.us Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A New Vision for the Department of Justice
In this op-ed, Kristen Clarke, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, discusses how the law can improve lives, promote justice, and right wrongs.
By Kristen Clarke Getty/Amber Hawkins
As the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Kristen Clarke, if confirmed, would be the first woman and first Black woman to be confirmed by the Senate to head up the office that ensures Americans civil rights. Here, she discusses her goals for her new position.
This might seem like a strange time for optimism when it comes to the power of our institutions to secure justice, promote equality, and deliver on our nation’s highest ideals. A global pandemic is rampaging through the country, and communities already living with the fewest health and wellness resources are being disproportionately affected.
I Have a Dream and 99 Other Groundbreaking 20th Century Speeches
By Isabel Sepulveda, Stacker News
On 1/31/21 at 11:00 AM EST
The 20th century was one of the most varied, hopeful, and tumultuous in world history. From the Gilded Age to the beginning of the Internet Age with plenty of stops along the way it was a century punctuated by conflicts including two World Wars, the Cold War, the War in Vietnam, and the development of nuclear warfare. At the same time, the 20th century was characterized by a push for equality: Women in the United States received the right to vote after decades of activism, while the civil rights movement here ended the era of Jim Crow, inspired marginalized groups to take action, and introduced this country to great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
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General Assembly proposals aim to protect LGBTQ Virginians from hate crimes
Anya Sczerzenie,
Staff Writer
Del. Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person in the Virginia General Assembly, was a freshman at Paul IV Catholic High School in Fairfax when she heard of the death of Matthew Shepard on the news.
Shepard, an openly gay University of Wyoming student, was severely beaten in 1998 and later died of his injuries. His death ignited nationwide conversation about hate crimes and was one of the most famous anti-LGBTQ attacks in U.S. history. Roem, who knew at the time that she was transgender, was deeply affected.