Riots

A lot of brands are telling the history of LGBTQ rights during Pride Month. However, a few of them want to walk people through it.To commemorate next weeks 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York Citys Greenwich Village, BMW and P&G are sponso…

June 28, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising (alternately called the Stonewall riots or rebellion), which was a turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. While people had long been working for equality for LGBTQ+…

Apple unveiled an all-new version of its Apple Watch Pride band earlier this month at WWDC 2019, matching the recently introduced 2019 Pride face introduced in the latest version of watchOS 5. See how the new 2019 Pride band pairs with Apple Watch’s latest Pr…

Princess Nokia at Boston Calling 2019 (more by Corwin Wickersham) NYC’s massive month-long celebration of WorldPride, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, wraps up in a big way with the 2019 Pride March, which steps off at noon on Sunday, June 30. St…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to apologize to the Central Park Five asserting that they admitted their guilt and that there are people on both sides of the question of their innocence. Trump jumped into the issue as a new Netflix NFLX, +1.85% …

Then there is the stunning rejection, proclaimed by Sundays outpouring of people, of the olive branch proffered by the authorities. The suspension of the extradition measure by Carrie Lam, the Beijing-backed chief executive of Hong Kong, and her highly unusua…

Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers and activists rejected a new apology Tuesday by the city's leader over a highly unpopular extradition bill, demanding that she quit and that the legislation be scrapped completely. Lam's plea for "another chance" drew a chor…

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld a longstanding rule stating that prosecuting someone separately in state and then federal court for the same crime does not violate a defendant's protection against double jeopardy. Americans have long…

Honoring Pride’s Transgender Pioneers

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Hong Kong's leader has so far refused to scrap the bill, despite opposition A number of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam's advisers have urged her to delay plans for a controversial change in extradition laws. Howev…