Riots

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…

Jay Toole, a SAGE participant and Stonewall survivor, tells their firsthand story of the Stonewall uprising in 1969. (This video features archival footage throughout the decades, including highlights from Gay & Proud, a film by lesbian pioneer Lilli Vinc…

The Stonewall uprising wasn’t the beginning of the LGBTQ liberation movement—it wasn’t even the first (or last) bar protest. An exhibit at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, “Love and Resistance: Stonewall at 50,” uses documents, pu…

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Riots break out following police shooting of Brandon Webber - Daily Mail