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The Day of Silence began as a way to raise awareness of the harassment of LGBTQ+ students in schools, but the current climate feels reminiscent of 1996 due to anti-trans legislation.

Exploring Transgender Identity in South Carolina is a candid photographic and interview-based documentation of transgender life in South Carolina. This project offers a contemporary visual record of a community that exists largely outside of that narrative yet within its realities.

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.

I've always been in plus, extended sizes...like, Lane Bryant queen as a 14-year-old, business casual. Now I have a clothing sponsor. I get paid to ride my bike and be in photo shoots. My cellulite is out and my stomach is out. I'm just proudly standing there with my body on display.

Betty leaves behind a powerful legacy for all of us and certainly within the National Park Service. Her thoughtful, introspective musings about the Civil Rights movement and the women's movement and how they intersected are some of the unique moments that I will always treasure...Thanks to Betty we've learned that we can hold multiple conflicting truths at the same time.

The face of the Latino civil rights movement in the United States sexually abused girls and women for decades, according to an investigation by The New York Times published Wednesday. The story reveals that Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW), the largest farmworkers union in the country, manipulated and abused minors close to the movement he led from the 1960s until his death in 1993.

Thanks to Betty, we have learned to lean into and seek out the hidden stories that go beyond the popular narrative. Before taking on that job, Soskin helped influence the stories told there as a field representative to two congressmembers, ensuring the museum also reflected the lived experiences of Black and Asian Americans at the time.

The Center for Literary Arts presents acclaimed author Venita Blackburn, Compton-born creative writing professor and founder of Live, Write, an organization offering free creative writing workshops.

One political conversation with a gay friend that I'll never forget occurred the night before Election Day in 2016, where my friend told me that he hoped Donald Trump would win so that "The Revolution" would finally happen. The idea, I suppose, was that Trump would make things so bad that it would finally wake up the proletariat of the world, and it would unite in the ultimate class war to overthrow the messed-up liberal world order,

Black History Month is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements and courageous acts of people of African descent in the United States and around the world. This year, Black History month celebrates its 100th anniversary. And yet, Black History Month has failed to fully acknowledge or celebrate the contributions of Black LGBTQ+ people. Just as Pride Month remains overwhelmingly white in its representation, Black History Month continues to be deeply homophobic in its omissions.

Accepting the award, Roan said she felt "very uncomfortable being told that [she's] a good person", which she put down to "Christian guilt". Roan then told the teleprompter operator she'd cut her speech down to a quarter of its original length, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Addressing the crowd, which included the likes of Chaka Khan, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii, and Addison Rae, Roan urged people to give back.

King's intuition was that white people with lower incomes would support this type of policy because they could also benefit from it. In 1967, King argued, "It seems to me that the Civil Rights Movement must now begin to organize for the guaranteed annual income . . . which I believe will go a long, long way toward dealing with the Negro's economic problem and the economic problem with many other poor people confronting our nation."

As if demolishing the East Wing, gutting arts agencies, and slapping his name and face on several federal buildings weren't enough, the US president now wants to do away with a DC building known as the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal art." This week, we reported on a burgeoning campaign to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, and other major American artists. We will continue to follow this story.

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams tells the story of how Dr. King used basketball to connect with young people and organize communities during moments of protest.

When the Supreme Court heard arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. on Tuesday, it confronted two cases that appear, at first glance, to raise the same question. Both involve state laws that bar transgender girls from participating on girls' school sports teams. Both feature plaintiffs who argue that these laws violate the Constitution and, in the West Virginia case, Title IX. And both arrive at the court after lower courts treated transgender status as legally relevant to a discrimination inquiry.

When Norman Sylvester was 12, long before he garnered the nickname "The Boogie Cat" or shared a stage with B.B. King, he boarded a train in Louisiana and headed west, toward the distant city of Portland, Oregon. He'd lived all his life in the rural South, eating wild muscadine grapes from his family's farm, fishing in the bayou and churning butter at the kitchen table to the tune of his grandmother's gospel singing.