On May 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) again issued guidance in the form of a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to educational institutions discussing how Title VI ...

Waqaa (Hello), my name is Larapciq Cheri Alstrom and I’m an Alaska Native Yup’ik. Alaska Natives face discrimination and racism daily; not just Alaska Natives, but all Indigenous peoples around the ...

I have a friend over 80 years of age who has shopped at a grocery store with a pharmacy for well over 20 years, on Highway 99. Last week she drove up to the store to see the pharmacy about their ...

On April 17, the Anchorage VA facility’s Chief of Staff and Associate Chief of Staff of Behavioral Health ordered the end to a long-running transgender peer group. This group connected vulnerable ...

The Oregonian editorial board recently accused the Portland City Council of discriminating against some residential garbage ratepayers ("Discrimination in a garbage can," May 20), but then ...

This letter is to address concerns raised about my “no” vote on City Council Bill 1426 (“Pittsburgh government must focus on issues, not battling ideologies,” Feb. 6, TribLive). I voted yes on Bill ...

How long will they, our Legislature, go on abusing our patience? These bills that discriminate against our fellow citizens are gross violations of their fundamental rights and, in both the short and ...

This story was published in partnership with the Texas Observer. In 2016, when Gisella Olivo walked into a four-bedroom house in downtown McKinney, about thirty miles north of Dallas, it immediately ...

As people of faith, we are writing in response to the November 16, 2022 article “ North Dakota's Hoeven, Cramer vote against law to protect gay marriage rights ”: In the article Sen. Hoeven stated, ...

My VIew Rev. Victor Roth’s arguments favoring marriage discrimination, in his letter to the editor published June 11, are pervasively illogical, and reveal the same religiously-motivated antigay ...