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LGBT/Pride Week

June is LGBT pride month. We have a variety of queer AAPI's, friends, families and allies posting about their experiences. Thanks to Be DeGuzman, one of APAP's 2009 Unsung Heroes, for coordinating this special week of posts.

To help with our upcoming hate crimes/Vincent Chin week (June 21) or Pacific Islander week (Aug), please let us know. If you have a topic you or your agency would like to coordinate, email us.

Items tagged: racial profiling

Time to counter hate and intolerance

From Restore Fairness blog

Even as hate filled rhetoric continues to pump the airwaves, there are a number of initiatives calling to counter the intolerance.


Human rights in the United States? Where do we stand?

From Restore Fairness blog

The United States has submitted its first ever report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a wide ranging report on human rights all 192 members of the United Nations are required to produce. Calling it "a roadmap for our ongoing work within our democratic system to achieve lasting change", the report stressed the importance of the U.S. political system in safeguarding rights.


A nation's spirit uprooted by conservative focus on "anchor babies"

From Restore Fairness blog. The 14th amendment, established in 1868 as a major gain from the Civil War, united a nation that was once half-slave and half-free. Today, some Republicans wish to revisit the debate of 1868 and revoke its notion of birthright citizenship in order to help prevent undocumented immigration.


Court Blocks Implementation Of Key Sections Of Arizona's Racial Profiling Law

Court Blocks Implementation Of Key Sections Of Arizona's Racial Profiling Law


Domestic violence survivors first to be affected by Arizona law


End Racial Profiling Act is introduced as NAACP calls on the Tea Party to reject racism


Sites of Conscience revive history and value of immigration