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This third-generation civil rights lawyer wants to pave the way for humanity-focused tech

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Jennifer Gerson |Jasmine Mithani

Published America is in the middle of a technological transformation, with artificial intelligence reshaping education, labor and creative output — all with major implications for social justice and personal liberties. In response, the Omidyar Network, a social impact philanthropic investment firm, has updated its mission to help shape a future in which technology reflects and serves a diverse, equity-oriented population.
Trump administration to end national LGBTQ+ suicide hotline

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Kate Sosin

Published After three years and 1.3 million texts and phone calls, the national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline is shutting down. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was ending LGBTQ+ services for 988, the crisis hotline for queer youth that launched in 2022.
Deadly shootings in Minnesota have shaken abortion providers

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Shefali Luthra |Grace Panetta

Published Abortion providers have long grappled with threats of political violence, but Saturday’s shootings targeting Minnesota lawmakers have put them on high alert, and many say they feel newly vulnerable. Suspected shooter Vance Boelter had a list of targets that included other elected officials and abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood affiliates and employees, multiple outlets reported.
The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders score a 400 percent pay raise

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Chabeli Carrazana

Published After more than a decade of fighting for higher pay, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have scored a major win. Season two of Netflix’s blockbuster series “America’s Sweethearts,” which premiered Wednesday, culminates in the announcement that the cheerleaders will be getting a massive 400 percent pay raise. Cheerleader Jade McLean told the New York Times that veterans will be making more than $75 an hour, up from about $15 an hour in the 2024 NFL season.
EEOC nominee would likely lead ‘real retreat’ from agency’s civil rights mission

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Amanda Becker

Published When a U.S. Senate panel holds a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for Andrea Lucas to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency’s former leaders say they will be paying close attention to what she says about EEOC guidance related to pregnancy discrimination and gender identity harassment. Lucas has served on the commission since 2020, when President Donald Trump nominated her during his first term.
Inside the queer pop-up parties you’ll never want to leave

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Tara Pixley

Published Glitter sparkles across people and surfaces, rainbow-colored acrylic nails snap in time to the Afrobeat, and boisterous cheers egg on the occasional dance floor death drop. These are moments that make up spaces created for and by queer and trans people of color (QTPOC).
Older women front and center in ‘No Kings’ pro-democracy movement

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Amanda Becker

Published SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — The 2017 Women’s March was Barbara Hartwick’s first-ever political protest. She drove from the exurban community where she lived at the time to downtown Cincinnati, a left-leaning city of 300,000 people that anchors the otherwise conservative region. Still, Hartwick said, she felt too nervous to carry a sign or join in most of the crowd’s chants.
Social support and access to gender-affirming care can be lifesaving for trans people, survey finds

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Kate Sosin

Published Trans people report greater health and mental health outcomes when they have social support and access to gender-affirming medical care, according to long-awaited data from the U.S. Transgender Survey, the only comprehensive study of transgender life in America. The nonprofit Advocates for Transgender Equality (A4TE) recently released data from the 2022 survey of more than 92,300 trans and nonbinary people.
Domestic violence nonprofits sue over Trump administration’s anti-DEI funding rules

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Jennifer Gerson |Jasmine Mithani

Published The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of 17 state domestic violence and sexual assault organizations on Monday, arguing that restrictions the Trump administration has placed on grants are are illegal and conflict with requirements laid out in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
As Cuomo attempts a political comeback, reforms for harassment victims stall

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Grace Panetta

Published In Albany, New York legislators are ending their session without passing two measures that would provide new protections for survivors of sexual misconduct within and outside of the workplace. Meanwhile, in New York City, the former governor who resigned in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations could be weeks away from achieving a political comeback in his mayoral bid.