Outside, a 'Fight for Equality'
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Chanting slogans and waving signs, thousands of demonstrators -- mostly high school and college students and teachers -- gathered yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court to support the use of race in programs to maintain school integration.
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Some gay activists want to track down those who engage in risky behavior and try to stop them before they can infect others.
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Comment is free: Zoe Williams: Enough of the numbers game. The issue is not how many women are in power, but how many fight for collective rights.
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In Mississippi, M.J. Etua helps students look outside their own world as they participate in a competition against better-funded programs.
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An event steeped in civil rights symbolism offers rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama an opportunity to show unity with the black community while they spar over support from a crucial Democratic constituency.
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The legal fight over same-sex marriage has shifted to Southern California now that a lawsuit filed by a gay couple from suburban Orange County is the only remaining challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Campaigners against the expansion of Britain's airports mount a legal challenge to the government.
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A campaign to name a Brooklyn street after controversial black civil rights leader Sonny Carson has bitterly divided New York City officials, with some hurling accusations of racism and intolerance.
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Animal rights activists demonstrated in front of the the leagueâs headquarters, as the N.F.L. grappled with the fallout from Michael Vickâs federal indictment on charges related to dogfighting.
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LABOR: Members march outside the Labor Department in Washington, DC, to protest the regulations that took effect Monday. BY LEIGH STROPE.
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Few constituencies are as eager for the Republican Party to falter this political season as gay-rights activists. Yet as they observe the Democratic presidential campaign and the rest of the electoral landscape, their high hopes often are mixed with frustration.
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The grass-roots remembrance of wooden crosses has become a First Amendment battle in Lafayette, Calif., traditionally an apolitical suburb.
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A prominent gay rights group is stepping up its campaign against what it views as homophobic lyrics by a number of reggae acts. The OutRage organisation has attracted widespread
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A fight over what constitutes government oppression and religious freedom is brewing in a cozy tearoom and cinnamon-scented quilt-and-craft shop operated in violation of local health codes.
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While cities around the world hosted upbeat gay pride parades in recent weeks, human-rights activists kept watch on a contrasting set of developments: gays beaten by demonstrators in Moscow, convicted on sodomy charges in Cameroon, targeted by sweeping anti-gay legislation in Nigeria.
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PORT CHESTER, New York  - A dispute over voting rights reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights era has broken out in this New York town, where the federal government has thrust itself into the debate and a judge suspended an election.