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...out’ LGBT community on campus, and as a result experience a great sense of disconnect and isolation,” she says. “Students talk about struggling with the feeling that the visible queer community on campus is ‘too mainstream, or too activist oriented, or overly emphasizes being gay as the main part one’s sense of self,’ and often these students end up feeling a lack of community connection.”A HOUSE DIVIDEDBut even within the “ins,” the LGBT...
Honoring social activist Robert Lewis, Jr. and actress Gabrielle Union for their dedication to community outreach, the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) hosted the third annual Crimson and Black Banquet on Friday in Leverett Dining Hall. Lewis, a vice president of the nonprofit Boston Foundation, and Union, a vocal spokeswoman about sexual assault, discussed social change at the event, which celebrated the Black community’s achievements in community service. “We really wanted people to see that even beyond Harvard, they could continue to be active and could continue to impact the community...
Campaign Insider. The activist and perennial candidate is spoiling for a fight...
Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
...there is an indication of how those caucuses might go, it is on the periphery of the crowd. As Bill Clinton works the rope line, longtime Austin Democratic activist Glenn Maxey is passing out his campaign flyers to people as they leave. A former state representative and the first openly gay member of the Texas Legislature, Maxey is running for county tax collector. Tonight he has passed out some 3,000 flyers. At the Obama rally six days ago he had given out 5,000 and ran out of them. Running an "insurgent" campaign against a longtime incumbent...