October 01, 2010
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October 01, 2010
Thousands gathered at the
Los Angeles Convention Center,
hoping to restructure
mortgages and avoid foreclosure.
October 01, 2010
The assistant attorney general
who targeted a gay college
student online has taken
a personal leave of absence.
October 01, 2010
Undisputed evidence proves no laws
were broken when four FBI
agents shot and killed the leader
of a Detroit mosque last year
October 01, 2010
Alice Cannon Camp said
Bishop Eddie Long made a
difference in her son's life
when no one else could.
October 01, 2010
After several decades of
what's been called "white
flight", Detroit is seeing an
increase in white residents.
October 04, 2010
Nearly 5,000 people, including
actor Danny Glover, turned out for
the "Day of Action" rally to get out the
vote and to counter the Tea Party movement.
October 04, 2010
A look at one African
American church that's trying
to change segregation
on Sunday morning.
October 04, 2010
More than 400 progressive and
civil rights groups marched Saturday
on the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C., in support of jobs.
October 04, 2010
Gay rights groups demand more tolerance in the wake of a student suicide at Rutgers University.
October 04, 2010
The event, sponsored by Univision,
was the first California gubernatorial
debate to be broadcast in Spanish.
Latino voters are crucial to the election.
October 04, 2010
A group is making a difference
in Detroit. They're fighting blight,
fixing up homes, and
working to create a skate park.
October 05, 2010
A recent U.S. Census report shows
a rising population shift in the
D.C. Metro region. More whites
are moving into big cities like D.C.
October 05, 2010
The room was packed during the
City Council meeting. Most were
there to see if the council would
approve a resolution adding gender identity.
October 05, 2010
Wanda Sykes and Tim Gunn
share their personal stories.
Lance Bass admits to
bullying gays as a teen.
October 05, 2010
Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
tells Dr. Sanjay Gupta
about his journey out of
poverty in Mexicali, Mexico.
October 05, 2010
Two young men were
arrested for attacking a man
in the bathroom of New York
City's gay-rights landmark Stonewall Inn.
October 05, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder is
defending the Justice
Department's handling of a New
Black Panthers Party case.
October 06, 2010
An exhibit in New York
displays Haitian art rescued
from collapsed museums after
the January 2010 earthquake.
October 06, 2010
A first-grade art project has
two parents so upset that
they are moving their son
to another school in another city.
October 06, 2010
A new survey shows 90 percent
of gay and lesbian students have been
harassed in the last year. Now
a documentary is hoping to change a few minds.
October 06, 2010
Woodside's principal is
upset with the filmmakers
of the documentary
"Waiting for Superman."
October 06, 2010
Through a translator he
said when he arrived, he
thought he was dead. "I do
not consider that I was alive."
October 06, 2010
Meg Whitman's former housekeeper
angrily responded to charges
she is being used
as a political pawn.
October 07, 2010
The University of Michigan's first openly gay student
body president, said the recent rash of
headlines about gay teens
led him to break his silence.
October 07, 2010
"First, the federal government
has to do what it should have
done years and decades ago,
which is secure our borders," Thurmond said.
October 07, 2010
A transgender senior at North
Dallas High School wants to
run for homecoming queen. But
school administrators won't allow it.
October 07, 2010
An unusual canvas in Ann
Arbor becomes a work of art,
when a graffiti artist turned
muralist puts his skills to good use
October 07, 2010
Prosecutors have subpoenaed
Rutgers University for e-mails concerning
how the school handled complaints
from freshman Tyler Clementi.
October 07, 2010
The U.S Supreme Court heard
arguments over the controversial Westboro
Baptist Church and their protests
outside the funerals of U.S. military personnel.
October 08, 2010
"Modern Family's" Julie Bowen
talks to HLN's Joy Behar about
how the show handled
the kiss between gay characters.
October 08, 2010
New internal e-mails
detail the Department
of Agriculture's rush to
oust Shirley Sherrod.
October 08, 2010
Melissa Etheridge and Deepak
Chopra give their thoughts
on why bullying occurs and
what can be done to stop it.
October 08, 2010
Liliana Celso grew up
in the Back of the Yards
neighborhood, but trouble forced
her to leave that community.
October 08, 2010
After finding out about the
dire situation for orphans in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic, Cool Kid
Karin Olivo started Operation DREAM
October 08, 2010
The Los Angeles Unified School
District has partnered with the Gay
, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
to launch a new program.
October 12, 2010
A senior at North Dallas
High School who was born
a boy but who ran for homecoming
queen did not make the cut.
October 12, 2010
Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced
anti-gay violence while giving a
speech at the PFLAG New York
City awards dinner Monday evening.
October 12, 2010
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight
Education Network launched
a campaign to stop bullying
in several LA schools.
October 12, 2010
Race has now been
injected into the heated contest
for Dallas County
District Attorney.
October 12, 2010
Controversies continued to
swirl on both sides of
the two candidates for
California governor.
October 12, 2010
The award winning theater
group Teatro Vista, Chicago's
largest equity Latino company,
is celebrating its 20th.
October 13, 2010
Illinois Attorney General Lisa
Madigan and attorneys general from across
the nation are expected to launch an
investigation into mortgage practices.
October 13, 2010
A federal judge issued a
worldwide injunction immediately
stopping enforcement of the
military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
October 13, 2010
Tragic Twist in
Border Shooting Case
. Mexican investigator
murdered.
October 13, 2010
Joy Behar talks with
former Gov. Jim McGreevey about
how anti-gay political rhetoric
keeps gays from coming out.
October 13, 2010
Can James Meeks be
mayor of Chicago
and pastor of his South
Side mega church?
October 13, 2010
Hundreds of people came together
to bring attention to the growing
problem of suicide among
gay and transgender young people.
October 14, 2010
The two candidates for
U.S. Senate staked out
conflicting positions on
the nation's immigration policy.
October 14, 2010
Donna O'Bannon, the mother of
Danielle O'Bannon, maintains that her daughter
legitimately received a $1,000 scholarship
from the CBC.
October 14, 2010
You can now learn more about a turning
point in Albany's civil
rights history at the Albany
Civil Rights Institute.
October 14, 2010
A traffic nightmare on the
101 turned into a night in jail for a
local band, but they say the
publicity stunt was worth it.
October 14, 2010
Several civil rights leaders met
outside of Austin PD and pressed for
dash cam video to be released
in the shooting death of a 16-year-old.
October 14, 2010
Georgia is joining 49 other
states in an investigation into allegations
that mortgage companies
mishandled documents and broke laws.
October 15, 2010
Protestors in Oakland
rallied against two anti
gang injunctions
they call racist.
October 15, 2010
Walker, known as the Queen of
Gospel Music, grew up in Bronzeville.
Her memorial service will be held at
West Point Missionary Baptist Church today.
October 15, 2010
Andrew Cuomo said that
he wants to be the
governor who makes “equality
a reality†in his state.
October 15, 2010
The debate over illegal
immigration has not exactly been calm
or polite, but it may have
reached a new low with this story.
October 15, 2010
A Latino group is
concerned that HIV prevention
programs for Hispanics are
not getting enough funding.
October 15, 2010
Dozens of DC firefighters
are accusing the department of racial
discrimination. They're filing a class
action lawsuit in District Court today.
October 18, 2010
A federal class action lawsuit
has been filed by veteran D.C. firefighters,
alleging racism and
discrimination in the department.
October 18, 2010
Haitian nationals who survived the
earthquake in January are learning disaster
relief in hopes that they would
be better prepared.
October 18, 2010
Rallies like one in
the Boyle Heights Mariachi
Plaza are trying to increase
Latino political clout.
October 18, 2010
Dozens of parishioners at Union
Second Baptist Church feel their pastor
is abusing his power and
question his handling of the church’s finances.
October 18, 2010
Community groups are
trying to bring more
attention to the
problem of bullies.
October 18, 2010
Aretha Franklin, the
"Queen of Soul" sang her respects
to Chicago's Albertina
Walker, the "Queen of Gospel".
October 19, 2010
Incidents of racial violence at South
Philadelphia High, Bok High and others
have forced school district
leaders to try and teach understanding.
October 19, 2010
New York's oldest gay bar was
the site of a bias attack, the
latest in a spate of hate
crime across the city, police said.
October 19, 2010
A group of tattoo artists
who called themselves "Team
Monster" were working around
the clock in West Hollywood.
October 19, 2010
A father believes the Boy Scouts of
America teaches discrimination. He said
he was rejected as a registered adult member
and volunteer because he’s gay.
October 19, 2010
The controversial documentary "Waiting
for Superman" features a heart-breaking
scene in which children and parents wait to hear
if they'll win a spot.
October 19, 2010
People who live in a Clayton County
neighborhood are fed up with blight and
crime. Now they're asking
for help after a rash of break-ins.
October 20, 2010
The Washington offices of the NAACP have been evacuated after employees opened an envelope containing white powder
October 20, 2010
President Obama is set to
announce a major initiative
to help Hispanic students
close the achievement gap.
October 20, 2010
An Iraq War veteran discharged from the
New York Army National Guard because he
had gone public about his homosexuality began the process of enlisting.
October 20, 2010
The Obama administration is expected
to appeal a federal judge's order barring
the military from enforcing its ban
on gays and lesbians serving openly.
October 20, 2010
The show "Glee" is tackling
anti-gay bullying this season
and addressing the pressures
many gay people face.
October 20, 2010
Six teenage girls started the Redefining
Beauty club at their school. Their mission
is to empower others to
resist stereotypes based on appearance.
October 21, 2010
NAACP CEO Ben Jealous
discusses the new report
by the NAACP that levels
charges of racism at the Tea Party.
October 21, 2010
Hundreds of students wore
purple to increase
awareness about the problem
of high school bullying.
October 21, 2010
Some are calling her the bravest woman
in Mexico. Others call her naïve. Either
way, Marisol Valles Garcia
says she's ready to take on the job.
October 21, 2010
An Army Reservist said that
a GA man punched her and yelled racial
epithets during an attack last
year at a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
October 21, 2010
The viral video of a brown Muppet, meant to
represent an African-American
girl, singing, "I really, really,
really love my hair".
October 21, 2010
While the rate of breast cancer
continues to decline, there is still
one group of women in need
of better diagnosis and treatment.
October 22, 2010
Nearly 2,000 people are
attended a home foreclosure
prevention fair at a
downtown Atlanta hotel
October 22, 2010
Two councilmen, one black
and one white, are involved in
a controversy over a reference
about working in a cotton field.
October 22, 2010
The Navajo Nation elects a new
president Nov 2. Soledad O'Brien
reports a woman is favored
to win, in a historic first.
October 22, 2010
The display, which featured a Ku Klux
Klan figure alongside an effigy of a black
man hanging from a noose,
could be seen by drivers on Interstate 55.
October 22, 2010
Georgia's First African
Baptist Church has lasted
through slavery, segregation
and tough times.
October 22, 2010
Is the Tea Party really an overt racist
group, as the NAACP claims in a new
report? We look at the controversial
topic in “Race In Americaâ€.
October 25, 2010
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October 25, 2010
Hispanic evangelical leader
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
says the Tea Party
needs to add "chips and salsa."
October 25, 2010
A deadly cholera
outbreak is causing
growing concerns about
the disease spreading.
October 25, 2010
University of Michigan student
Chris Armstrong has withdrawn a
request for a Personal Protection
Order against Andrew Shirvell.
October 25, 2010
The state's largest newspaper is
coming under fire for its refusal to
print a wedding announcement
for a gay couple getting married.
October 25, 2010
He helped start the Woodlawn
Organization to shepherd his South
Side community through racial
unrest and neighborhood upheaval.
October 26, 2010
LIVE WEBCAST
Tuesday Sessions 8:30AM- 7:00PM PDT
Live From Long Beach Convention Center
October 26, 2010
While many African-American voters
tend to vote Democratic, this year,
Republicans are making a stronger
push in the black community.
October 26, 2010
Henry Velandia is in deportation proceedings
because the Defense of Marriage Act
prevents Josh Vandiver from
sponsoring him for residency.
October 26, 2010
Women's Conference 2010 had
its third annual "Night at The Village" in Long
Beach. Thousands of women came together
to learn about health and happiness.
October 26, 2010
Both candidates for Illinois governor
are holding their ground
following a weekend flap over
some controversial comments.
October 26, 2010
A discussion on
the boundaries for journalists
after Juan Williams speaks
out about being fired.
October 27, 2010
Tasha Hill said that her legal fight
with Troy West may not be over. She's
weighing all legal options after West
reached a controversial plea deal.
October 27, 2010
The Women's Conference in
Long Beach drew big
names, including Oprah,
Michelle Obama and Maria Shriver.
October 27, 2010
Police believe new gang violence plan is
helping. If one gang member
commits a crime, police are
coming after the whole gang.
October 27, 2010
For 10 years, A Bay Area
history teacher has led thousands
of students down
the "path of pioneers."
October 27, 2010
The Department of Education
sends a letter to teachers
and administrators warning
about federal laws against bullying.
October 27, 2010
The government estimates nearly half a million
illegal immigrants live in Georgia. Legally,
they're not allowed to work.
October 28, 2010
A look at the
history of how immigration
sways California Latinos
to the Democrats.
October 28, 2010
Report on the shocking
anti-gay rant posted by
an Arkansas school official
on his Facebook page.
October 28, 2010
Aid supplies sit
unused in warehouses as
the death toll rises across
Haiti from a cholera outbreak.
October 28, 2010
A national Latino
police officers group
announced support
for Proposition 19.
October 28, 2010
A volunteer group from
an Oakland Church is home
from a humanitarian mission to
Zimbabwe that ended in arrests.
October 28, 2010
Now that the President has
issued a nationwide alert on
bullying, we decided to ask the
experts their opinion.
October 29, 2010
The incident had some Bears players and
others saying they were turned away because
there were too many blacks in
the racially-mixed group.
October 29, 2010
E-Verify is a free service sponsored by
the Department of Homeland Security that
allows companies to verify
a potential employee's immigration status.
October 29, 2010
An Arkansas school
board official resigns
after anti-gay
comments on Facebook.
October 29, 2010
A hate-filled letter sent to a
San Francisco transgender woman has prompted
an investigation at the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
October 29, 2010
Halloween isn't the only holiday this week. Dia
de los Muertos, a tradition rooted
in Mexican culture,
is also being celebrated.
October 29, 2010
Dignitaries from across
the country will join family
and friends in Chicago to
honor a civil rights hero.