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27 March 2021
lead story - NCAA Looms Large In Debate Over Transgender Sports Restrictions
Suez canal - Efforts to dislodge stranded Suez Canal container ship intensify as backlog grows
Magdy Samaan, Laura Smith-Spark, Mostafa Salem
CNN
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26 March 2021
archive - Guide to the Cornell LGBT Coalition records, 1967-1999 - 1991 (started)
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New York - Human Rights Officials Won Big Discrimination Case for Transgender Woman, Then Went Silent
lead story - Arkansas governor signs transgender sports ban into law
AP
NBC News
Georgia voting - ‘I will not direct a film in Georgia,’ says ‘Walk the Line’ filmmaker
Matt Wake
AL.com
25 March 2021
archive - Author in Sex Change Says She's a Mother - October 9 1969
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Maryland - Family, advocates seek answers following a trans woman’s death at Baltimore city jail
Jessica Anderson
Baltimore Sun
lead story - Dr. Rachel Levine becomes first openly transgender person confirmed by Senate to federal post
Doha Madani, Julie Tsirkin
NBC News
Denver shooting - A King Soopers barista hid his coworker behind trash cans to keep her safe during the shooting
24 March 2021
archive - It's Time America Luncheon* - June 16 1995
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New Mexico - Committee unanimously passes ban on 'gay panic' defense claim
lead story - Transgender student to receive $300K in discrimination suit
AP
NBC News
Joe Biden - Regular Joes: Biden and Manchin, whose old relationship faces new test
23 March 2021
archive - Escaped Negro Convict is Captured Here as "Female Impersonator" - June 21 1913
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Alabama - Proposed Alabama transgender law: I’m a pediatrician and I’m gravely concerned
lead story - Tennessee lawmakers pass transgender sports bill
Slater Teague
WJHL
Denver shooting - Suspect in Colorado grocery store shooting faces 10 counts of murder, police say
22 March 2021
Indiana - Let's find common ground (see critique)
lead story - Pakistan’s first transgender-only madrasa breaks barriers
immigration - As migrants surge over the border, America must respond with compassion
Editorial Board
Deseret News
21 March 2021
archive - A Crack Shot: The Story of the Female Hunter of Long Eddy - August 17 1881
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Delaware - State Senator Sarah McBride on Making History and Affirming Trans Lives
lead story - Transgender woman stabbed multiple times in Germantown
20 March 2021
archive - Dancer - 1985
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New Mexico - Bill seeks to prevent transgender females from competing in girls, women's sports
Hannah Grover
Farmington Daily Times
lead story - South Dakota gov pushes changes to transgender sports ban
Stephen Groves
AP
unity - Many Americans of color call for unity against white supremacy after Atlanta killings
19 March 2021
archive - 28 de junho, um dia de Luta - August 1980
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To see a translation, go to Google Translate. (translation imperfect)
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New York - NYPD cop shoved, hurled slurs at trans woman being harassed: lawsuit
Priscilla DeGregory
New York Post
lead story - Transgender bathroom ‘sign’ bill being amended, not pulled from consideration
Joe Biden - Biden urges Congress to pass hate crime legislation in response to violence against Asian Americans
Hannah Miao
CNBC
18 March 2021
archive -Attendees to 5th Annual AIDS Benefit - ca. 1982-86
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Mississippi - Mississippi gov signs bill limiting transgender athletes
lead story - Kansas Senate passes bill banning transgender athletes in girl's, women's school sports
Staff
KMBC
Georgia shooting - Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff's spokesperson allegedly posted a photo of a racist, anti-Asian Covid-19 shirt on Facebook
17 March 2021
archive - Poster for a Drag Show at Café LMNOP - 198x
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Kentucky - U.S. Protestant pastors see gender change as immoral (critique)
Aaron Earls
Kentucky Today
lead story - Missouri dad urges lawmakers not to pass student-athlete bill with moving speech about transgender daughter
Caitlin O'Kane
CBS News
Atlanta shootings - Atlanta spa shootings: US on alert over possible anti-Asian American motive
Miranda Bryant
The Guardian
16 March 2021
archive - 10th Annual Be All Weekend - June 6-10 1990
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Kansas - Kansas lawmakers consider measure to bar transgender youth from girls sports
Katie Bernard, Sydney Hoover
The Kansas City Star.
lead story - Actor Elliot Page wants to advocate for other transgender people
US/Mexico border - Southwest border crisis leaves Biden vulnerable on all sides
15 March 2021
archives - A Rose News - March 1989
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Arizona - Mesa anti-discrimination ordinance hotly debated
Tom Scanlon
East Valley.com
lead story - Dozens march in Madison for transgender rights
riots - Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Spencer S. Hau, Peter Hermann
The Washington Post
South River, NJ
(Brian Sicknick's birthplace)
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/South_River%2C_NJ_along_CR_535.jpg
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