January 3, 2003 top
News items: Unemployment hits African-Americans hardest;
Pennsylvania appellate court rules that domestic partner must pay
child support; Toronto employers often reject women wearing
hijab, study finds; Cracker Barrel restaurants and Lockheed
Martin add sexual orientation to anti-discrimination policy;
Supreme Court to hear case of mixed-race couple called
"salt-and-pepper team" by realtor; EEOC issues new guidelines on
national origin
December 13, 2002 top
Guest: Rabbi Mira Wasserman of Bloomington's
Congregation Beth Shalom describes the origins of Bloomington
United as a response to hate literature in 1998
December 6, 2002
Guest: Rabbi Mira Wasserman of Bloomington's
Congregation Beth Shalom discusses the difficulty of maintaining
secularity in schools at Christmas time
November
1, 2002
Guest: Reverend Christy Wareham, minister in
Martinsville, Indiana, and co-founder of Martinsville's People
Respecting Individuality and Diversity in Everyone (P.R.I.D.E.),
discusses the organization and its sponsorship of a reading by
Quaker pastor Phillip Gulley during the Polis Center's Spirit and
Place Festival
October
25, 2002 top
News: "Church of Body Modification"
member files $2 million religious discrimination lawsuit against
Costco; N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg opposes domestic partner
benefits for city contractors; 4th Circuit Court of Appeals says
workplace sex talk is OK if not directed to a particular gender;
singles in the workplace feel left out as family leave spreads. Review:
Anti-racism activist Jane Elliott ("Blue Eyes, Brown
Eyes") speaks at Indiana University
October
4, 2002
News: Spiritualist community in Florida to get
first Christian church after settlement; MGM Grand butler wins
same-sex harassment suit on appeal; University of Mississippi
remembers James Meredith and Medgar Evers on 40th anniversary of
its integration; Little Rock, Arkansas commemorates 45th
anniversary of desegregation of Central High; U.S. Census Bureau
reports that Chinese is now 2nd most used language in U.S. after
Spanish; New York judge says "non-effeminate" homosexual
can't support harassment claim
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