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'Hank Greenberg' reveals resilience of early baseball legend
The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed an awful hatred. In his new book, "Hank...
Tags: Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Detroit Tigers, Broadway Theater, Spring Training
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Review: 'Slipping' a powerful study of bigotry at Lillian Theatre
Eli (played by rising theater star Seth Numrich) is an openly gay high school student who has been transplanted from the San Francisco Bay Area to Iowa after the tragic death of his father. His English professor mother (a gritty Wendy vanden Heuvel) has...
Tags: War Horse (movie), Arts and Culture, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians
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Tinley Park in dispute over Hispanic cop's discrimination claim
The Illinois Department of Human Rights has found "substantial evidence" that the Tinley Park Police Department discriminated against a Hispanic patrol officer when it passed him over for a specialty position. In a discrimination complaint filed with...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice System, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Freedom of Information Act
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NHL, players join with You Can Play to fight homophobia in hockey
Maybe it really is as simple as it sounds. That for the NHL and its players, establishing a partnership with the You Can Play project — which fights homophobia and advocates for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual athletes in...Tags: National Football League, Baseball, Sex Crimes, Donald Fehr, Anaheim Ducks
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Landlord must uphold transgender tenant's rights
Question: I have been renting an apartment to a man named Michael, who recently asked me to start calling him Michelle because, he says, he now identifies as a woman. He has also started wearing makeup and women's clothing. Both the name change and...Tags: Rentals, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Rental Service
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A level playing field for transgender students
Society is only beginning to understand transgender identity. For a young person who feels at odds with the physical gender that he or she sees in the mirror, there are major obstacles to be faced in the world at large, where acceptance is just about...
Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Students, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: School Examinations, Colleges and Universities, Academic Progress, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Melissa Harris
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Gay rights and the religious exemption
Obstacles to legal equality for gay and lesbian Americans are crumbling fast. Congress has repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevented gay service members from being open about their sexuality. Nearly a dozen states have legalized same-...
Tags: Employment, Civil Rights, Employment Opportunities, Justice and Rights, Labor Legislation
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Raising awareness about bullying
Local students and general community members stood frozen for a few minutes on a recent afternoon at Miami Beach's Lincoln Road. Their message — to raise awareness about bullying, cyberbullying and the consequences of unchecked hatred and...Tags: Elections, Students, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Judaism
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Fired East Hartford Police Officer Files Racial Discrimination Complaint With State
The Hartford CourantJuma Jones, who was dismissed from his job as a town police officer, has filed a racial discrimination complaint with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities charging that he was punished more severely than white department employees who...Tags: Punishment, Computer Crime, Human Rights, East Hartford, Crimes
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Iowa jury returns record $240-million judgment in ADA abuse case
A jury has awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled former workers at a turkey processing plant in Iowa, in what officials on Wednesday said was the largest such judgment in a federal abuse and discrimination case. After a week-long trial, the...
Tags: Employment, Des Moines Register, Justice System, Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation
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