This article originally appeared on the SEARAC blog. Lanica Angpak Director and founder, Cambodian American Girls Empowering Philadelphia, PA Like many other programs across the country, COVID-19 has forced Cambodian American Girls Empowering (CAGE) to stop its...
There are many ways to write the story of the LGBT civil rights movement. We can start in the 1920s, when the Society of Human Rights was founded, or in 1955 when the Mattachine Society, a secretive group was founded, or with the 1965 gay march in front of...
From The Farm To The Front Page by Harold R. "Scottie" Scott Growing up on a working farm in rural, middle Tennessee, I never thought I would be affected by the AIDS epidemic. This is my story. In late 1989, I met and dated someone for about three months. It was from...
This article originally appeared on the SEARAC blog. Kao Thun Executive director, Iu Mien Community Services Sacramento, CA Before the COVID outbreak, Iu Mien Community Services (IMCS) in Sacramento, CA, had planned to set up its office as a census questionnaire...
This article originally appeared on the SAGE blog. SAGE is proud to introduce #PrideInPlace, our virtual Pride campaign for 2020. Pride in Place is a way to celebrate Pride and the 50th anniversary of our country’s first Pride March wherever you are, whether it’s a...
This article originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. Action is needed to help people of color to receive the care we need if we have COVID-19. Too many reports say that we are dying at disproportionately higher rates. We know that structural inequality, bias, and...