When thinking about moments of Pride, whether it be during Pride Month or not, I’m always thinking of times in which acceptance and education …
My journey is a bit different from others in the LGBTQIA+ community. For one, it does not include a coming out story. Don’t get me wrong, I am…
A moment of my life revolving around Pride is when I was a teenager and I volunteered with Iowa Pride Network to hold coalition meetings to te…
The newly commemorated national holiday Juneteenth is considered the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in th…
House File 802 bans mandatory diversity training in state workplaces along with banning elements of critical race theory in the classroom. The…
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill prohibiting specific "divisive" concepts from diversity training and school curriculum, such as America and Iowa being systemically racist.
On March 25, 2020, then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, killing him. On April 23, Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
In an increasingly globalized world, many young people find themselves trapped in a rut of a world view. Growing up in communities lacking in diversity of wealth and ethnicity has left adolescents ill-equipped for the complexities of the real world. Because of this, Iowa State requires students to complete a few credits worth of diversity-related courses before graduation.
The Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity is looking to fill spots on its schedule for its fall 2021 edition of Feminist Fridays.
Recently, four organizations came together to present a new LGBTQIA+ pride flag, but this time, it also represents the pride of a city: Des Moines.
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During the Chinese Faculty Staff Association’s event, Lisa Son, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, discussed the cost of activism for Asian Americans.
All around Iowa, the United States and the world, people responded to Tuesday’s conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter and shared their reactions to the guilty verdict.
