Friday, February 7, 2025

These disabled federal workers are worried

Trump's remarks about disabled workers and recent White House moves have alarmed federal employees with disabilities who fear for their jobs. ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌  ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
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Stories of justice and action across America

Fri Feb 7 2025

 
President Donald Trump calls on reporters during a press conference about the collision of an American Airlines flight with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30.

Trump's remarks about disabled workers and recent White House moves have alarmed federal employees with disabilities who fear for their jobs.

President Donald Trump joined by women athletes signs the No Men in Women's Sports executive order in the East Room at the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC.
 

Opinion: Trump's anti-transgender executive order is smoke and mirrors

President Donald Trump signed an executive order which he says protects women athletes. It doesn't do that. It does hurt the transgender community.

A photo taken in 1909 in Fort Sumner, N.M., shows Deluvina Maxwell, center, a Dine' (Navajo) woman enslaved in the household of prominent landowners Lucien and Maria de la Luz Beaubien Maxwell, according to historian and anthropologist Estevan Rael-Galvez. Rael-Galvez is director of Native Bound Unbound, one of two ongoing projects to document the enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas, a practice that exploded with the arrival of   European colonizers.
 

Slavery of Native people: Yesterday's tragedy. Today's mystery.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.

Civil Rights Leaders, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and A. Philip Randolph, meet with former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and other officials outside the White House in this June 22, 1963 photograph.
 

Black History Month celebrates labor leaders amid Trump attacks

Black labor leaders fought for workers of color, trailblazing work that continues as the Trump administration strips away key protections.

Sep 10, 2020; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; A general view of the End Racism slogan painted at one end zone on the field before the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
 

NFL drops 'end racism' message written in end zone for Super Bowl

The NFL will not have "end racism" written in the back of an end zone at the Super Bowl, as the league will instead opt for other messages.

Feb 3, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a press conference ahead of Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
 

WATCH: NFL's Roger Goodell defends DEI programs

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended the league's DEI programs. This comes after President Trump has urged private companies to end them.

Rev. William Lamar speaks during an MLK Day rally on the day of the 2025 Presidential Inauguration at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington D.C. Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.
 

Black church vandalized by Proud Boys aims to support social justice

'We intend to take that evil and use it for good,' says pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, which was awarded trademark of group that vandalized it.

Mar 29, 2023; Dallas, TX, USA; The NCAA logo on the stanchion is seen at the American Airlines Center prior to practice. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports
 

NCAA updates transgender athlete policy after Trump executive order

Competition in collegiate women's sports will be limited only to athletes assigned female at birth.

Protesters at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 5, 2025, to support the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
 

'People are feeling galvanized': Anti-Trump protesters rally across US

The protests by the 50501 Movement come days after rallies in opposition of Trump's immigration policies were held across the country.

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