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Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown. by  Jodi S. Cohen ,  Melissa Sanchez  and  Duaa Eldeib   Sept. 10, 5 a.m. CDT They were as young as 10 months, as old as almost 18. About one-third of the children who ended up in Chicago came from Guatemala. Others had fled Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Romania and India. All had at least one parent locked up, often hundreds of miles away. Months after the plight of children separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration crackdown sparked outrage, prompting a reversal of the policy, those children’s identities and experiences in detention remain largely unknown. But ProPublica Illinois has obtained confidential records about the 99 children sent to Illinois shelters run by the nonprofit Heartland Human Care Services, which has a federal cont...

As a  Founding Partner, I invite you to r ead the latest blog from Spectra Diversity, www.spectradiversity.com.  It would seem we don’t have much to celebrate this August 26, which aims to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the 19 th Amendment prohibiting the states and federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the U.S. on the basis of sex. This Women’s Equality Day it is becoming evident how the more things change, the more they tend to stay the same; and in 2018, it would seem, things also took a step back. Financial Disparity for Women In Spring of 2017, President Trump called for a radical change as he signed executive bills reversing the  Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order.  Obama placed this legislative order in 2014. The Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order mandated that businesses had to report a step-by-step “wage statement” of their earnings to the Department of Labor. This order also raised the  minimum wage  an...

Transgender Woman Wins Vermont Governor's Primary

Childhood / Junior High Growing up, there was a narrative that I heard time and time again. It began with the damsel in distress story. Then it continued as my older cousins married opposite-sex partners. As I started adolescence, my mom constantly reminded me she expected me to go to college, find the right man, and have her grandchildren.  As a child, all of this made sense because of  heteronormativity . I was attracted to boys, yet a certain part of me wanted to object to these  notions placed upon me by my family and society . The idea of going to prom with or getting married to some man made me uncomfortable.  It wasn’t what I wanted, but it was what the world expected of me. I don’t remember the exact moment when I realized that I liked girls, but I believe I was born the way I am. I do remember having some feelings toward the opposite sex as early as 6th grade, but I repressed them. They were just girl crushes, I told myself, and everyone has...

The Latest in Diversity News  Dorothy Jean "DJ" Tillman earned her bachelor's degree at 12 years old. Next, she hopes to earn a master's in environmental engineering.  Read More Here  #jladiversity