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Florida's LGBT non-discrimination bill deserves a hearing so that the thousands of families out there can be protected from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

At the G20 protests in London only one group appears to be looking for violent confrontation - and it's not the protestersThe trouble-makers are out in force again. Dressed in black, their faces partly obscured, some of them appear to be interested only in violent confrontation. It's almost as if they are deliberately raising the temperature, pushing and pushing until a fight kicks off. But this isn't some disorganised rabble: these people were bussed in and are plainly acting in concert. There's another dead giveaway. They are all wearing the same slogan: Police. The police have been talking up violence at the G20 protests for weeks. They briefed journalists and companies in the City of London about the evil designs of the climate campaigners intending to demonstrate there, but refused to let the campaigners attend the briefings and put their own side of the story. They also rebuffed the campaigners when they sought to explain to the police what they wanted to do. The way officers too

Members of the US Westboro Baptist Church, who chant slogans such as 'fags burn in hell', have unintentionally raised money for a gay rights group. LGBT activists have set up a scheme in which people are asked to donate money for every minute the Phelps family protest against gays. The vehemently homophobic church, whose leader Fred Phelps runs GodHatesFags.com, turned up to picket outside the White House on Monday, calling President Obama the 'antichrist' for his support of equality. However, Phelps and his church were met by LGBT supporters who protested against them, raising money for local group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence. The scheme was thought up by Driving Equality, an organisation that has held various 'Phelps-A-Thons'. Visitors to the website www.phelps-a-thon.comcan sponsor the Westboro Baptist Church by choosing an amount to donate for every minute the group chants slogans such as 'god hates fags'. All of the proceeds go towards local LGBT support groups, or to Driv

A new report suggests African American students, especially men, at black colleges are less likely to graduate. Morehouse College President Robert Franklin and Philander Smith College President Walter Kimbrough discuss the alarming statistics.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 1 (IPS) - The spreading global financial crisis is threatening to undermine another one of the U.N.'s major development and health goals: family planning.

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