‘The True Story of “The Great Gift Of The Christian Faith To The Peoples Of This Continent, including woodblock prints, history, a relevant Pontifex quote, and a salient one from Marx.
Just in time for Thanksgiving the University of Delaware's Center for Political Communication has released a new study to support your holiday table debates.
The National survey on rights, protections for transgender people has found that 71% of people favor protection of transgender individuals in schools and 70% favor such protections in the workplace. Sixty-two percent of the public supports allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military.
This evening's music features New Orleans r&b artist Smiley Lewis. Enjoy!
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
This evening's music features New Orleans piano player Champion Jack Dupree. Enjoy!
Champion Jack Duprée - Chicken Shack
I grew up just about two miles, as the crow flies, or as the child finds a path through what we called the Creek, from Lewis and Clark College. My older brother matriculated there, played basketball for them in the late 60s for awhile. One of my major life heroes, William Stafford, taught English there for many years while I was growing up.
So it has been a major blow to me to discover that this past weekend at least two hate crimes occurred on the campus in the span of a couple of hours.
This evening's music features doo-wop, r&b and rock n' roll group, The Coasters. Enjoy!
The Coasters - Smokey Joe's Cafe
I first wrote about Samantha Hulsey back in January, when she was attacked with a friend on a Muni bus by a man who stabbed her twice with a steak knife while calling Hulsey and her friend "faggots".
On November 15 a San Francisco couple, Dewayne Edward Kemp, 36, and Rebecca Louise Westover, 42, were arrested near Eighth and Mission for allegedly assaulting transgender resident Samantha Hulsey.
In court Friday afternoon, Kemp and Westover pleaded not guilty to the charges, contending that they were acting in self-defense when Westover threw a cup of hot coffee an Hulsey and her girlfriend, Daira Hopwood and Kemp punched Hulsey four times in the face while uttering transphobic comments.
All over the world people are in universal agreement that the solution to the endless, horrible wars in the middle east is to escalate the levels of violence. All the Republican presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton, leaders from both political parties, foreign leaders such as Putin, Presidents Cameron and Hollande, news media pundits and former generals are speaking in one voice.
HUD Secretary Julián Castro has announced the agency has proposed a new rule to update the existing policy that bars discrimination against LGBT people seeking public housing or housing assistance from the federal government.
Under the new proposal HUD would provide access to housing and services based on a person's gender, not sex assigned at birth.
If there is ever to be any hope that this forever War on Terror will end, we must first face the reality of the world.
Unfortunately, if this statement is an example, then reality is the last thing on the agenda.
