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The conservative anti-LGBTQ hate organization known as One Million Moms is at it again, this time protesting a TV commercial from the bedding company Avocado Green Mattress, which features a number of couples relaxing on their mattresses, including what the group considers an “offensive” lesbian couple. The Advocate’s Trudy Ring…
The U.S. Supreme Court has just heard the arguments of three cases that will determine the applications of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to LGBTQ employment rights. But Aaron Belkin, director of the judicial advocacy group, Take Back the Court has written Justices Brett Kavanaugh and…
Rapper 21 Savage gave $25,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center this week after the watchdog organization helped him while he was in federal immigration custody earlier this year. In order to show his gratitude for their help, the Grammy-nominated artist donated the money to fight Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s…
Patrick Casey, leader of alt-right white nationalist group, Identity Evropa, and Charlottesville marcher, posted a visit to the White House on social media this week: Evropa has landed at the White House! pic.twitter.com/nlExBhNP4V Patrick Casey (@PatrickCaseyIE) November 7, 2018 Casey’s group, aimed at recruiting young white college-age men, believes in…
Update 9/17/18, 6:21 P.M. Neo Nazi’s Lawyer Steps Down as Court Date Pushed to November Bail for Samuel Woodward, accused of stabbing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein to death in January, has been set at $5 million, and Woodward needs a new lawyer. Ed Munoz, who said last week that evidence would…
Update 9/17/18, 6:21 P.M. Neo Nazi’s Lawyer Steps Down as Court Date Pushed to November Bail for Samuel Woodward, accused of stabbing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein to death in January, has been set at $5 million, and Woodward needs a new lawyer. Ed Munoz, who said last week that evidence would…
Richmond’s J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School, named after a Confederate general, decided on using the name of the nation’s first Black president as their break from hateful history’s grip. The top two choices voted by students at the school, which has a 95 percent Black student body, were Barack Obama and…
The woman who said unarmed Stephon Clark “deserved” to die because he was “being stupid” has raised close to $25,000 in a GoFundMe account. Faith Linthicum was fired from Kaiser Permanente after writing on Facebook that Clark, a young father of two, had it coming when he was shot in…
Police in Massachusetts are searching for the culprit who wrote a racial slur on a historic African American museum, an act the police chief called “immature.” The “immature” message left on the African Meeting House, which is also part of a museum, was “N****R LEAVE.” Also next to the slur…
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), President Donald Trump spoke to a hate group last week — and he was a hit. The Family Research Council, which is on the SPLC hate group list, invited the 45th president to speak at the Values Voter Summit, an annual socially…
