Black Trans Liberation: An Evening at the Stonewall Protests in New York City
A man sits outside the Stonewall Inn before the evening rush in New York City. On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, sparking an uprising that was largely led by LGBTQ+ people of color and celebrated black trans activist, Marsha P. Johnson. The West Village gay bar is nationally recognized heritage site of LGBTQ+ activism, and still hosts a colorful nightlife scene. (Iman Floyd-Carroll/Peninsula Press)
Protester’s megaphones sit on the pavement ahead of the rally on February 25, 2021. Held every Thursday since the summer of 2020, the Stonewall Protests began to call attention to the importance of trans rights and to condemn the ongoing killings of transgender people. (Iman Floyd-Carroll/Peninsula Press)
Published: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Interior Dept. headquarters. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Interior Department headquarters in Washington. Francis Chung/E&E News
As an academic, Robert Anderson advocated giving sharper teeth to policies requiring outreach to Native Americans and called intriguing a move to enhance the clout of the Interior Department s top American Indian affairs official.
Now, as the Biden administration s newly named nominee to serve as Interior solicitor, the law school professor could be much closer to putting his tribe-empowering ideas into practice. It is apparent that Indian tribes in the United States need more than rights to consultation when federal projects or federal-permitted projects take place in off-reservation areas that may nonetheless affect indigenous rights to land and water, Anderson wrote in 2018.