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601) Hate crimes
Series
Reference shelf volume 92, no. 1
Pub. Date
2020
Description
This volume focuses on the recent increase in hate crime in the United States, touching on recent mass shootings, the role of the president and the government in preventing hate crime, and recent outreach programs to schools and educators by the FBI and other organizations in the wake of rising hate crime incidents in our schools. It also discusses hate crime law, hate crime vs. hate speech, and the increase in hate-based international violence, which...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, rescinding the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Advocates for marriage equality were outraged. Still, major gay-rights groups opposed a federal challenge to the law, warning that it would be dangerously premature. A loss could set...
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
In the era of Colorado's Amendment 2 (1992-), Boulder Voices was created to get some educational information into Boulder County communities to counter the continuing stream of anti-gay propaganda. Through all kinds of storytelling (writing, interviews) by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and the voices of straight family members and friends in Boulder County--the reality of their lives is presented.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes Lauren Fleshman has grown up in the world of running: one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro, she was a major face of women's running for Nike before leaving to shake up the industry...
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Describes the efforts of Native Americans to rebury ancestral human remains and grave offerings held by museums and historical societies, with particular emphasis on the Pawnees and their struggle to reclaim their dead.
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Pub. Date
c2004
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Account of the fight by Native American lawyers (the Coyote Warriors of the title) to protect Indian rights. The story revolves around Martin Cross, who fought and lost a life-long campaign against a government project to build a dam on the Upper Missouri, which flooded Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara land.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In 2001 a bill was presented to the US Congress, known as the DREAM Act. The purpose of this bill was to fix the immigration status of almost two million undocumented youth who came to the country as minors through no choice of their own but now as young adults, with no legal identity, they may be unable to attend college, and live under the constant threat of deportation. These young people are known as Dreamers. As part of activist organizations...
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Pub. Date
c2013
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Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
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2019.
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Mexico, 1519 CE. While waging his violent colonial campaign during the Spanish conquests, Cortés introduced hemp farming. In secret, locals began cultivating the plant for consumption. It eventually made its way to the United States through the immigrant labor force where it was shared with black laborers. It didn't take long for American lawmakers to decry cannabis as the vice of 'inferior races.' Enter an era of propaganda designed to feed a moral...
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Series
Chew: the omnivore edition volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Federal agent Tony Chu faces a cult of egg-worshipping terrorists who've declared war on the world's chicken consumers.