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California Just Showed Us That Hiring Transgender Employees Is Good For The Bottom Line

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice tries to dismantle LGBTQ protections in the workplace. by Rebekah Sager

My Son Is Attending A ‘Blue Ribbon’ School — And I’m Terrified

My black son is going to an ultra-competitive, nearly all-white school where “the teachers are hammers and the students are the nails.” by Britni Danielle

Why Texans Dove Into Harvey’s Toxic Floodwaters To Rescue Bats Barehanded To the people who love them, Houston’s 250,000 bats aren’t scary — they’re tiny, bug-eating “dragons” that keep our ecosystem (and economy) afloat To the people who love them, Houston’s bats aren’t scary — they’re bug-eating “dragons” that keep our ecosystem (and economy) afloat.

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Jed Oelbaum
Syrian Refugee Turned Olympic Swimmer Faces Fears In Return To Budapest ‘I promised myself that I would come back here differently.’ “I promised myself that I would come back here differently.”

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Jolene Latimer
Why This Book About A Proud Muslim Family Is A Must-Read For The 2017 School Year And it has nothing to do with Trump “Dear little one, know you are wondrous, a child of crescent moons, a builder of mosques, a descendant of brilliance.”

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Tasbeeh Herwees

An NFL Team’s Revolutionary Approach To Helping A Neighborhood An experimental jobs program hopes to end the stigma around new sports stadiums An experimental jobs program hopes to end the stigma around new sports stadiums.

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Corinne Cummings
Here’s What Happens When Stores Carry Books By Women, People Of Color — And No One Else When opening a bookstore in the Bronx feels like a radical act. 79% of people in publishing identify as white — and so are a lot of our fictional “good guys.”

Education

Anya Alvarez
The Killings Of Black Men Are More Likely To Be Labelled ‘Justifiable’ Who gets to decide which murders are reasonable? How a quirk of legalese placed millions of black Americans in jeopardy.

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Tasbeeh Herwees

Trump’s Transgender Ban Is Just Bad Strategy ‘Our military is the best fighting force in the history of this planet because of all of these changes, not despite them.’ The U.S. military can be a quietly progressive institution — and we need all the able-bodied fighters we can get.

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Rebekah Sager
This Black Lives Matter Founder Still Has Hope For America If we want to heal, Patrisse Cullors says we can start by believing people of color when they say the system is designed to destroy them But after Charlottesville, there are no more excuses for not getting involved.

Communities

Liz Dwyer
80% Of America's Teachers Are White It’s not just students of color who benefit from a diverse teaching force In an ideal world, a teacher’s race shouldn’t matter. But this is not an ideal world.

Education

Liz Dwyer

I Walked Past A Confederate Monument For 15 Years And Never Noticed Los Angeles may be a bastion of bleeding-heart liberalism — but it also burned twice after brutally racist acts The discovery of the memorial in Hollywood Forever Cemetery proves there really is no racial nirvana.

Communities

Liz Dwyer
A Gold Medal Olympian Says That Youth Athletes Need To Hear Our Voices She was the first gymnast to stand up against USA Gymnastics for inappropriate behavior. ”Most parents are good and well-meaning, but they have no clue.”

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Kristin Marguerite Doidge
It’s Been Three Years Since Michael Brown Died. A New Film Demands Justice Documentarians Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan make a powerful plea for action in ‘Whose Streets?’ “White people haven't rearranged how they think about us.”

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Tasbeeh Herwees

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