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Tennis star Serena Williams has been eliminated from the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The Obama administration plans to direct school districts to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their identity. School officials will receive guidance on implementation.

A North Carolina school board lifted its ban on students carrying Mace and pepper spray on campus. This comes in response to the DOJ's civil rights lawsuit against the state's bathroom law.

The Department of Justice and North Carolina filed lawsuits against each other over the so-called "bathroom bill." North Carolina denies that the measure violates the civil rights of transgender people.

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is doing everything in his power to garner the Black vote. Sanders appeared on The Tom Joyner Morning Show on Monday morning, fielding questions from a roundtable of Black hosts and contributors, including Roland Martin, Don Lemon, Al Sharpton, Jacque Reid, and Sybil Wilkes. The move came just days after the Vermont senator […]

Presidential candidate Ben Carson faced continued fallout from the LGBTQ community after he suggested transgender people should have their own bathrooms.

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Zella Ziona, 21, became the 22nd trans woman to be killed this year after she was shot in the head Thursday evening in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Pedro Redding was charged with murder, conspiracy and weapons charges in the killing of a transgender woman in Philadelphia, but police stopped short of calling it a hate crime.

Keisha Jenkins, a Black transgender woman and college student, was fatally shot, making her the 21st transgender woman killed this year.

Breaking: Raffi Freedman-Gurspan the first out transgender White House official: http://t.co/oM7B3yP4nh Via @MicNews pic.twitter.com/agWT0guhsc — Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) August 18, 2015 The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the hiring of its first openly transgender staff member, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, former policy adviser for the Racial and Economic Justice Initiative at the National Center for Transgender Equality, according […]

Florida police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the death of a transgender woman who was fatally shot in a Tampa-area park, NBC reports. India Clarke, 25, was shot once in the head and found dead on July 21, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Keith Gaillard tuned himself in to police […]