This personal reflection on testifying before a Maryland House committee comes from HRC’s Youth and Campus Outreach Associate Director, Candace Gingrich-Jones: Yesterday I had the honor of traveling with my wife to Annapolis to testify against HB 90 in front of the Maryland House Judiciary Committee....

“Born in Atlantic City, [Jacob Lawrence] spent part of his childhood in Pennsylvania and then, after his parents split up in 1924, he went with his mother and siblings to New York, settling in Harlem. When years later he told an interviewer that “I am the black community,” he was neither...

Download the full Human Rights Watch World Report 2010 in PDF format here. (Washington, DC) – Governments responsible for serious human rights violations have over the past year intensified attacks against human rights defenders and organizations that document abuse, Human Rights Watch said today...

For 26-year-old Ahmet Yildiz, the choice to live openly as a gay man in Turkey proved deadly. Prosecutors say his father, charged with allegedly killing his son in what is being dubbed as the first gay honor killing, traveled more than 900 kilometers from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood...

More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education offered the hope of integrated classrooms, today’s schools not only remain racially segregated, but are dividing along gender lines, sexual orientation and immigration status in the name of better education, according to the Spring 2010 issue...

Walter Cronkite had almost finished broadcasting the “CBS Evening News” when he received word of Martin Luther King’s assassination. His report detailed the shooting and the nation’s reaction to the tragedy. (CBSNews.com)

His headstone said “Free at last, Free at last” – But death is a slave’s freedom – We seek the freedom of free men – And the construction of a world – Where Martin Luther King could have lived – and preached non-violence. Nikki Giovanni, The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is...

This past Sunday I was invited to speak to Skylands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to talk about ENDA and the faith community’s responsibilities to speak up and take action in support of fair workplaces on behalf of our LGBT brothers and sisters all across this nation. Skylands Fellowship sits in...

GRAND RAPIDS — The Speak Equal Foundation, a local and newly-formed human rights organization has announced their inaugural benefit concert series. The concert will be hosted by Rumors Nightclub, Grand Rapids largest gay night club, on Saturday, January 16, 2010. Performances kick off at 6:30...

AP — Parliament is expected to approve legal changes Friday that would make Portugal the sixth European country to allow gay marriage. The center-left Socialist government is scheduled to present a bill removing a stipulation that marriage is between two people of different sexes. That constraint...