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Parents of Students with Intellectual Disabilities Fight for Inclusion
As the mental health debate heats up in schools, students with intellectual disabilities from their peers face continued stigma as they remain isolated.
For the past three decades, public schools have supposedly been doing their best to keep students with intellectual disabilities with their peers in a regular education setting. However, research shows that between 55 and 73 percent of those with intellectually disabilities still spend most or all of their day in segregated placements. By not developing those social skills children are being set up for an unsettled future.
GLAAD Calls for LGBT Characters in 20 percent of Movies by 2021
Box office hits like "Wonder Woman" and "Black Panther" have smashed old Hollywood notions that movies that champion women and people of color do not have global appeal, GLAAD said, and now LGBT people must be in the conversation as well.
(Reuters) — Romance "Call Me By Your Name" may have won a screenplay Oscar, and Disney's family-friendly "Beauty and the Beast" had a gay character, but movies from Hollywood's major studios last year had the lowest percentage of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual characters since 2012, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Gun Control Support Fades Three Months after Florida Massacre: Poll
Whether Parkland would defy the trend has been closely watched ahead of the November mid-term congressional elections, especially since student survivors have attempted to turn public sentiment into a political movement on gun issues.
(Reuters) — The Parkland, Fla., school massacre has had little lasting impact on U.S. views on gun control, three months after the shooting deaths of 17 people propelled a national movement by some student survivors, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday.
Black Rape Victim Awarded $1B Settlement
Sexual assault plagues women of color at higher rates than white women — and many assaults on Black women go unreported.
A Black woman who was raped at the age of 14 was told by a jury, "You're worth it" — the "it" being $1 billion.
Hope Cheston, now 20 years old, was awarded a $1 billion settlement by a jury in Clayton County, Ga.
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70 Percent of Irish Women Voted to Legalize Abortion in Ireland Creating Landslide Victory
A most conservative country when it comes to abortion rights begins to wake up to the logical conclusion that if your gender can't bear children, you should probably stop mansplaining and man-deciding.
UPDATE: May 26, 2018
Ireland has voted to repeal its abortion ban. The Irish Times exit poll suggested that women voted by 70 percent in favor of legalizing abortion.
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Ireland is one of Europe's most socially conservative countries, with one of the world's strictest bans on abortion. Residents went to the polls on Friday for a "once in a generation opportunity" to decide whether to liberalize or maintain the country's abortion laws.
For Americans, conservatives trying to control abortion rights using religion sound all too familiar.
Jury Awards $28M to Haitian-American Nurse Who Stood Up for Coworker
Brigham and Women's Hospital retaliated against a nurse for defending a coworker amid alleged verbal abuse.
Gessy Toussaint — who shares the name of the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture — also believes in fighting against the odds and winning.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury ruled on Wednesday that Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., retaliated against Toussaint, a Haitian-American nurse who stood up for a colleague, and has awarded her $28 million. Deliberation took more than three days.
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After a Typhoon of Publicity, Harvey Weinstein Charged with Rape
Allowed to turn himself in with pre-arranged bail already taken care of.
There was one more red carpet for Harvey to walk down. At 7:30 this morning, the alleged rapist walked into a Lower Manhattan police station surrounded by cameras flashing and reporters shouting his name.