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Nigel Shelby was 15 and attending high school in Huntsville, Alabama when the bullying began. He was called names, harassed on social media and shunned by classmates simply for being gay. When he complained to school administrators, they lectured him on what they considered “right and wrong” when it came…
From Post-It notes with offensive terms stuck on dorm room doors to comments hurled across hallways or blasted out on social media, a new study has revealed that LGBTQ students are significantly more likely to face bullying at Christian colleges than they are at non-Christian schools. Dan Avery of NBC…
Lt. Cmdr. Kerry Karwan, a retired member of the Coast Guard and member of the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), attended the Dec. 11 joint congressional hearing by the U.S. House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees. The issue at hand was one she had personal experience with. “Righting the Ship,”…
Channing Smith, a 16-year-old junior at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tenn., died by suicide on Sept. 22 after classmates outed him as LGBTQ on social media by sharing screenshots of intimate text messages he sent to another boy. The two classmates — the boy who received the…
The National Whistleblowers Center will recognize Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Kimberly Young-McLear, who spent years reporting — and facing retaliation for reporting — discriminatory and abusive behavior by her superiors. Young Mc-Lear, who is Black and lesbian, had not previously spoken publicly about her story, which includes years of abuse…
Bronx teen, Mya Vizcarrondo-Rios, endured incessant bullying and even a sexual assault by two boys as a freshman on the honor roll at Harry S.Truman High School in New York City. The 16-year old was subjected to abuse for months before committed suicide by jumping 34 stories to her death…
Curry, who has struggled with body image before, took the high road. The Curry family united for the NBA’s Western Conference Finals game where brothers Steph Curry and Seth Curry played against each other. Showing all love, Ayesha Curry, wife of Steph Curry, posted the united family, even though her…
The faculty at Central Park School of Children in Durham, N.C., noticed that their LGBTQ students were getting bullied and didn’t feel a part of the school. “We were seeing data that our LGBTQ students were experiencing direct and indirect bullying,” Taylor Schmidt, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at CPSC, told…
It all started when Thomas Daniel, 9, missed his bus last week. Thomas was running after his bus early in the morning when he was seen by Grand Rapids Police Department Officer Lynema. Lynema gave Thomas a ride to school after he got permission from the boy’s mother. During the…
“He said he would sell me into slavery, if I didn’t do what he said, and then he started making little jingles about slavery,” said LaShanti Duncan. That’s the type of harassment Duncan and Imani Wortham said that they had to endure each day in school from a bully at…