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Forget Obama Girl, ‘Obama Boy’ sings about his ‘crush on Obama’
Obama Girl is so 2008. President Barack Obama’s recent decision to support same sex marriage has inspired a new video where “Obama Boy” sings about his “crush on Obama.” “The day President Obama went on record saying he was pro-gay marriage, I came up with the concept and wrote the…
Workers’ group releases shockingly short list of ethical restaurants
A group dedicated to the rights of food service workers called Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) has released an annual list of national restaurants and how they treat employees. A surprising number of U.S. restaurant chains fail to even meet the minimum requirements listed in the guide to be considered…
Senate hears first-ever testimony from openly trans person in ENDA hearing
Speaking to lawmakers on Tuesday, Kylar Broadus, an attorney, professor and activist, become the first-ever openly trans person to give testimony to the Senate. Broadus (pictured, left), founder of the advocacy group Trans People of Color Coalition, shared his experience being trans in America with lawmakers sitting on the Senate…
Hospital denies woman’s kidney transplant due to medical marijuana use
RELATED: Tommy Chong vows to treat prostate cancer with hemp oil —— For the second time in less than a year, one of the largest hospitals in Los Angeles has removed a patient from an organ transplant list due to medical marijuana use, Raw Story has learned. Toni Trujillo (pictured…
KKK seeks to ‘Adopt-A-Highway’ in Georgia
The state of Georgia is in a bind after a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group filed a request to join the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show that the International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County has applied to “adopt” one mile of…
Secular group faces push-back from Kentucky’s unofficial state pastor
A secular organization that plans to open a chapter in Kentucky has received opposition from a pastor who holds prayer meetings at with state lawmakers. The Secular Coalition for America is opening chapters nationwide to promote the separation of religion and government at the state level. The group has already…
Abortion providers decry ‘anti-woman’ legislation targeting them and their patients
“I think the physician’s perspective is extremely important, and one that we don’t hear too often in the media,” actress and A Is For co-founder Martha Plimpton told Raw Story last night, as she surveyed a room of more than 30 abortion providers and their supporters. They had all gathered…
Magazine aimed at ‘reasonable people who give a damn’ purges editorial staff
GOOD Magazine, a quarterly journal and website dedicated to “pushing the world forward,” has abruptly laid off almost its entire editorial staff. One discharged staff member, who did not want their name revealed at this point, told Raw Story the purge included “everyone except the head designer, the assistant editor,…
Congress, rights groups still know virtually nothing about U.S. wiretap court
At a House hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and representatives of two leading privacy rights groups concluded that they still know virtually nothing about a secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), originally intended to prevent the worst abuses of the Nixon administration from ever…
Gay Arizona dads targeted with domestic ‘terrorism’
A gay Hispanic man and his partner in Gilbert, Arizona say that their family, which includes a disabled daughter, has been targeted with a series of hate crimes that amount to “terrorism” — and they worry that the police are not taking their case seriously. “I truthfully believe it’s because…
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