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Every week, PRA gives you a monthly update on a different social justice issue. This week, we are recapping the last month in LGBTQ Rights. Providence College Cancels Debate With Prominent LGBTQ…

Meanings of October 27th is an oral history project that explores Pittsburghers’ experiences of and reflections on the October 27th, 2018 synagogue shooting that took eleven lives.

On Friday, Andy Kroll at Mother Jones reported that Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow, the father-son team leading the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — high-profile social conservatives and advisers and supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, are working to overcome the candidate’s enthusiasm gap within the right-wing evangelical community.

The League of the South is involved not in an eccentric nostalgia for retrograde racial politics and wishful thinking about secession of the Southern states so much as a revolutionary vision of theocratic, white nationalist violence.

In August 2018, 16 of Oregon’s 36 sheriffs signed a letter in support of ballot measure 105, the referendum in the November 6 election to repeal Oregon’s 31-year-old sanctuary law.

Jean V. Hardisty challenges simplistic understandings of racism in her new report, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Race and Child Care in Mississippi.

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be debated in Parliament today and voted on tomorrow, Wednesday May 11. The bill, thought by many to have been shelved, had in fact remained before a committee of Uganda’s parliament. There were hearings on the legislation, known in some quarters as the “kill the gays” bill, last Friday, May 6.

On November 6, Massachusetts voters will decide several ballot measures, including Question 3, which asks voters to overturn public accommodations protections in the Bay State based on gender identity.

With the Supreme Court stiking down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it is imperative to take the voting rights battle to the streets, as North Carolina did with Moral Mondays.

The Constitution Project, a bipartisan think tank, called on President Obama in the first month of his administration to curb the ambiguities and excesses of fusion centers.