By Ta-Nehisi Coates — 2014
Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
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CLEAR ALL
We have inherited a world full of humans who have been healed and hurt by other humans. There was a time, in an age before this one, when ignorance was forgivable. But that time has passed. Now is not the time for the enlightened to sneer at the brutes. Sneering hurts people.
We’re taught to believe that hard work and dedication will lead to success, but that’s not always the case.
Meet the people who paved the way for LGBT rights. It has been a long hard fight to secure acceptance for the LGBT community, and the older people who fought the fight often get overlooked and forgotten.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people continue to experience discrimination in sport. Homophobia and transphobia are serious problems and harm children particularly in team sports. This video of personal stories can be used to educate and inform others and inspire them to take action.
Megan Rapinoe calls out Sports Illustrated; Rick Strom breaks it down.
Outsports hosted a first-of-its-kind conversation with four Asian and Asian-American LGBTQ athletes to elevate understanding about the unique challenges they face.
When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no one wanted to talk about them. Today, this is a central conversation in American society that reverberates throughout the sports world and beyond.
United Nations, New York, 10 December 2009 - Panel discussion organized by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights.
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah sits down to talk about her synagogue’s open-arms policy towards gay and lesbians, and relives some of the more sensational moments in her life as an activist against intolerance.