Many trans individuals passed away in 2016, most with very little media attention. Here, we remember those who lost their lives.
Many trans individuals passed away in 2016, most with very little media attention. Here, we remember those who lost their lives.
Plus, civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis accepts National Book Award with emotional speech and three teens charged for hatchet attack on transgender woman in North Carolina.
A federal judge blocks Obama's transgender school bathroom rule. The plaintiffs accused the president of an overreach.
Spelman College established a task force to consider whether to admit transgender students. The historically Black college would join a wave other elite women's institution to make the policy change.
Plus, Spelman College considers admitting transgender women into its class body and an entire Black church in North Carolina endorses Donald Trump.
Tennis star Serena Williams has been eliminated from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Plus, a security guard is charged with battery for attacking a trans woman in a store bathroom and the number of pregnant women with Zika in the U.S. triples.
The Obama administration plans to direct school districts to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their identity. School officials will receive guidance on implementation.
A North Carolina school board lifted its ban on students carrying Mace and pepper spray on campus. This comes in response to the DOJ's civil rights lawsuit against the state's bathroom law.
The Department of Justice and North Carolina filed lawsuits against each other over the so-called "bathroom bill." North Carolina denies that the measure violates the civil rights of transgender people.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is doing everything in his power to garner the Black vote. Sanders is slated to make an appearance on The Tom Joyner Morning Show on Monday. During the show, he will take questions from a roundtable of Black hosts and contributors, which will include Roland Martin, Don Lemon, Al Sharpton, […]
