NEW YORK CITY — A Care2 petition is demanding iHeartRadio drop its show The Breakfast Club after a guest and the show’s hosts laughed about killing transwomen. Fourteen Black transwomen have been murdered this year. The petition has gathered over 8,400 signatures. View the Care2 petition here. “Transwomen like myself face the threat of violence every…
NEW YORK CITY — Activists demonstrated inside the Trump Tower atrium on Tuesday to voice their objection in response to reports that Donald Trump is considering firing Robert Mueller and pardoning administration members who have broken the law. Members of Rise and Resist, a NYC-based direct action group, carried signs stating ‘You can’t fire the…
Peter V. Lee Comments on 2018 Rates from Covered California on Vimeo. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Covered California unveiled proposed rates for the 2018 individual market, announcing that all 11 of its participating health insurance companies will be returning for the upcoming year. Covered California continues to be a stable marketplace where consumers can find affordable…
AZUSA, Calif., — Azusa Pacific University (“APU”), a Christian university in Southern California, is being sued by an employee who allegedly suffered severe and unlawful retaliation after complaining about anti-gay violence and harassment. Mahesh Pradhan, a chef and supervisor at APU, alleges that he was subjected to repeated physical violence and verbal abuse by other APU…
HELENA, Mont. — The ACLU of Montana today challenged in the Montana Supreme Court the legal sufficiency of a proposed anti-LGBTQ ballot initiative, I-183. The petition argues that the ballot and fiscal impact statements fail to adequately explain the initiative’s discriminatory impacts on transgender individuals and state and local budgets. “Any description of the true…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released an inspiring video message featuring many of the breakout stars from the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Their message of hope and power marks the one-year anniversary of the final night of the convention, which featured the moving address by Gold Star father Khizr Khan and…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Michaela Mendelsohn, CEO of one of the largest El Pollo Loco franchises in the country and the founder of the California Transgender Work Project (CTWP) transcanwork.org – a program formed with the mission of promoting a trans positive work climate throughout the state of California, is speaking up about President Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Friday on News One Now, guest host Ray Baker interviewed Harper Jean Tobin, the policy director of the National Center for Transgender Equality about the Department of Justice having filed an unsolicited amicus brief on Wednesday stating that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not cover job discrimination based…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Friday that the Public Policy Committee of HRC’s Board of Directors has voted to endorse Dr. Ralph Northam for Governor of Virginia in the upcoming November 2017 election. With an estimated 185,366 eligible LGBTQ voters and hundreds of thousands more allied voters in Virginia, HRC’s get-out-the-vote effort…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Obamacare repeal died in the GOP-controlled Senate early today. The final vote for the Health Care Freedom Act, designed to eliminate core components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), went down on a 49-51 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with…
