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Advocate - 6 hours 3 min agoOn October 13, transgender civil rights icon Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away at 78 after time in hospice care. For over five decades, Griffin-Gracy fought for trans equality and in a country that still wrestles with queer rights with as much temperament today as it did when she arrived in New York City in the 1960s. Nevertheless, she persevered as a torchbearer to brighten the lives of those who saw the world as grim and dismaying.
The never-ending "It Ends with Us" legal battle rages on, as a federal judge on Thursday began hearing arguments on Justin Baldoni's bid to dismiss Blake Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit. In December 2024, Lively filed a legal complaint with the California Civil Rights Department claiming Baldoni sexually harassed her on set. Lively is currently suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and defamation. Baldoni has denied Lively's allegations. While her team argued that Baldoni improvised...
The nation's workplace civil rights agency withdrew its main roadmap for handling harassment cases on Thursday, leaving employers without detailed federal guidance. In a 2-1 vote, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission scrapped its 2024 harassment guidance document, nearly 200 pages that outlined how existing antidiscrimination laws apply to conduct...
Boston Herald - 12 hours 28 min agoThe image was manipulated to make the moment more dramatic than it actually was.
US Weekly - 13 hours 18 min agoBlake Lively 's alleged feud with director and costar Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us exploded into multiple lawsuits in 2025. The former Gossip Girl star kicked off the legal battle by filing a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department and subsequently sued Baldoni over sexual harassment allegations. Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman fired back by calling Lively's allegations "completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious," before countersuing...
US Weekly - 14 hours 17 min agoBlake Lively and Ben Affleck go way back to 2010. More than 15 years after they first crossed paths, the two made headlines in January 2026 after an email Lively apparently sent to Affleck went viral. The message, which appeared to be sent in May 2024, was one of more than 180 unsealed documents in connection with Lively and Justin Baldoni's ongoing legal battle over the movie It Ends With Us. Lively initially filed a complaint against Baldoni in the California Civil Rights Department before...
The Education Department accused a New York school district of violating a civil rights law by changing its Native American mascot to match state law, which the department said amounted to discrimination. Connetquot Central School District, on Long Island, changed its mascot from the "Thunderbirds" to the "T-Birds," which the department said violated Title VI...
A new civil rights complaint targets Fairfax County Public Schools' Regulation 2603, which a group says instructs teachers to hide students' gender transitions from their parents.
On Thursday morning, Blake Lively's lawyer Sigrid McCawley addressed the press after a court hearing in New York City. In December 2024, Lively filed a legal complaint with the California Civil Rights Department claiming Baldoni sexually harassed her on set. Lively is currently suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and defamation. Baldoni has denied Lively's allegations. Ahead of the hearing, hundreds of documents, including countless text messages, were ordered to be unsealed by the judge...
The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the city in January 1966 to assist with the city's fledgling civil rights efforts.
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