The U.S. Department of Education’s (Department’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Dear Colleague Letter Tuesday to schools specifying with concrete examples the application of Title VI of the ...

On May 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) again issued guidance in the form of a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to educational institutions discussing how Title VI ...

Waqaa (Hello), my name is Larapciq Cheri Alstrom and I’m an Alaska Native Yup’ik. Alaska Natives face discrimination and racism daily; not just Alaska Natives, but all Indigenous peoples around the ...

Other writers address columns from Chris Churchill and Fred LeBrun, a questionable court ruling, lots of climate change-related issues and more Writer argues age discrimination in policing must change ...

The University of Kentucky received a letter from the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) regarding racial discrimination, according to UK spokesperson Jay Blanton. The ...

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I have a friend over 80 years of age who has shopped at a grocery store with a pharmacy for well over 20 years, on Highway 99. Last week she drove up to the store to see the pharmacy about their ...

On April 17, the Anchorage VA facility’s Chief of Staff and Associate Chief of Staff of Behavioral Health ordered the end to a long-running transgender peer group. This group connected vulnerable ...

There are few others in this state who are as familiar as I am with the despair LGBTQ+ youth feel in North Dakota. These children are growing up without resources or support in a state where our ...

How long will they, our Legislature, go on abusing our patience? These bills that discriminate against our fellow citizens are gross violations of their fundamental rights and, in both the short and ...

Imagine this in Clark County in a few years: You see someone stealing your vehicle. You subdue that person and call 911. You are surprised when the dispatcher asks what race the person you captured is ...