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Shaundel Washington-Spivey elected first Black and LGBTQ mayor of La Crosse, Wis.

Voters in La Crosse, Wisconsin, made history on Tuesday when they elected the city’s first Black and openly gay mayor. Shaundel Washington-Spivey came out victorious in the local race against Chris Kahlow, winning by just 451 votes. “It means a lot,” Washington-Spivey told reporters Tuesday night of his historic win, reports WXOW 19. “When I think of the work that the Enduring Families Project has been doing in this community to shine a light on earlier Black settlers in La […]

todayApril 2, 2025

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Civil rights groups sue Trump over ‘malicious’ and ‘unlawful’ anti-DEI, LGBTQ orders

A coalition of civil and human rights groups is hitting back at President Donald Trump and his administration over executive orders barring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility funding and LGBTQ-related health care. The Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal are representing the nonprofit advocacy organizations — National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago — in a legal challenge to three of Trump’s anti-equity executive orders. The orders call for a range of actions […]

todayFebruary 19, 2025

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Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally. Referencing Trump’s belief that he was saved by God from assassination, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde said, “You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon […]

todayJanuary 22, 2025

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Black LGBTQ+ voters could make the difference for Biden in 2024 election

Election poll data and turnout trends of Black voters and voters who identify as LGBTQ+ signal the significant sway the two groups could play in the outcome of the 2024 presidential contest. Black LGBTQ+ voters, who stand at the intersection of these two influential voting blocs, could be critical for President Joe Biden’s reelection. “The Black and LGBTQ communities are both critical parts of the Biden-Harris coalition that played an important role in the president’s victory in 2020 and will […]

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