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Posted Oct 30, 2007
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| Today's Features | | | Commentary: Why Gender Identity Must Be Included in New Law
Controversy over a "stripped-down" version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that includes orientation but not gender identity has divided the LGBT community. Why are some advocates saying, "If it doesn't pass with gender identity, it doesn't pass it all"? Read this commentary to find out. (more)  | | | Immigrant-Student Bill Fails Senate Test Vote
Today's Headlines (10/25): Immigrant-Student Bill Fails Senate Test Vote; Next on 'Oprah': Gay Around the World; Less Foot Traffic at Mexican Border, More Smuggling; Nobel Prize Winner Resigns After Racially Charged Comments; Anti-Civil-Rights Judge Gets Senate Thumbs Up; From New Orleans to Calif.: What Has FEMA Learned? (more) | | |  | | | | This Week's Most Read Stories on DiversityInc! | | | Why Are Only Fair-Skinned Blacks Invited to the Party?
Today's Headlines (10/19): Why Are Only Fair-Skinned Blacks Invited to the Party? Critics Lay Off Cosby; La. Considers Son of Indian Immigrants for Governor; Clinton's Healthcare Plan Won't Cover Undocumented (more) | | | What Bill Cosby Told Oprah
Today's Headlines (10/18): What Bill Cosby Told Oprah; Military Yanks Ads on Gay Web Site; U.S. Saudi School Criticized (more) | | | Transgender Rights Reinserted in Controversial Gay-Workplace Bill
The controversial gay-rights workplace bill includes gender identity again. The rights of transgender employees were removed from the bill last month in an effort to make the bill more palatable. But after protests from most gay-rights groups, Rep. Barney Frank has put gender identity back in. (more) | | | 'Enough Is Enough': These Black-Female Execs Proud of Natural Hair
Two black female executives tell you why they wear their hair naturally. In the words of Marcia Brown, vice provost at Rutgers University, Newark: "The statement is that if you're a dark woman with nappy hair, you can't be a woman in the board room, running the company, or someone considered good-looking." (more) | | |
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