A 75-year-old man who took expensive real estate courses from the defunct Trump University was thrilled Friday upon learning that President-elect Donald Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement in a class action that will repay losses to him and about 7,000 other former students. “Incredible! I’m thrilled!” said Sonny Low to KFMB-TV (Channel 8)…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The health care industry, our nation’s largest private sector industry and employer, makes up more than 17 percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The US health care industry has grown accustomed to the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) business climate and faces uncertainty heading into a Trump Administration–one that has vowed to…
One of the nation’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ leaders, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has met with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss a potential position in his Administration’s Department of Education. Falwell was one of Trump’s earliest and most outspoken Religious Right supporters, reported Right Wing Watch. He appeared in Trump campaign ads, hosted…
Thursday, Nov. 17 The San Diego LGBT Community Center held the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) ceremony to honor members of the trans community who lost their lives to violence this past year. San Diego Police Officer Christine Garcia, the first openly transgender police officer in the San Diego Police Department, had played an…
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sunday several actions to protect civil rights and combat hate crimes in New York, including the creation of a State Police unit to investigate reports of hate crimes, an expansion of the state’s human rights law to protect all students, and the establishment of a new emergency legal…
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is still refusing to admit defeat in the state’s gubernatorial race despite vote tallies showing that Roy Cooper has increased his winning margin to nearly 6,600 votes. McCrory, ousted by voters in large part because of the discriminatory HB2 legislation he signed into law, has a history of attempting to…
SAN DIEGO — With San Diego Hunger Coalition’s new Rx for CalFresh report, healthcare professionals in San Diego County and beyond are better equipped to identify patients struggling with hunger and connect them with the food assistance they need. One in six people in San Diego County has limited or uncertain access to enough nutrition….
WASHINGTON — Friday, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military families, responded to the announcement that 31 retired military officers are warning against efforts to politicize personnel policies for minority service members, including women and LGBT troops. In response to potential Trump administration members’…
President-elect Donald Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the position of attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Sessions, an early Trump backer, is an immigration hard-liner who has been in the Senate since 1997 and previously served as attorney general for the state of Alabama. In 1986 Sessions was rejected as a…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and the Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC) released A Matter of Life and Death: Fatal Violence Against Transgender People in America 2016, a new, heartbreaking report documenting the often deadly violence faced by the transgender community and exploring the factors that fuel these tragic…
