Every year, one of the world's leading dance competition companies sells the dream of Hollywood fame to hundreds of thousands of ambitious...
Alabama is among multiple states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills not only to block medical treatment but to ban transgender...
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...
Georgia lawmakers dumped the thorny problem of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play high school sports onto the state's main...
Physical and occupational therapists and athletic trainers will now be required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under a new Michigan...
Though popular portrayals of human trafficking tend to conjure ideas of violent kidnappings and cross-border human smuggling, the majority of sexual exploitation...
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state's child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse,...
Trayvon Martin's final night began with a convenience store run, a quick trip for candy and something to drink. It ended in...
Melanie Willingham-Jaggers is the first person of color, first nonbinary person, and first Black woman to lead GLSEN in its 32-year history.
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
The students, known as Thunder Fellows, are part of the inaugural class of an afterschool program founded in the wake of the...
A proposal to overhaul New Mexico's social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should be taught in schools, with thousands...
Sandy White Hawk will speak at the 10th-annual Indian Child Welfare Act Conference. The event will be held on Feb. 16 at...
Clinic operators and other abortion-rights advocates say recent comments from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other abortion opponents perpetuate...
In her first prepared speech Tuesday the new leader of New Mexico's child protection department pledges to restore the agency's credibility following...
The Trevor Project releases a new research brief discussing the current data and issues concerning LGBTQ youth sports participation.
An education policy expert has resigned her post at the New Mexico Legislature following a long-simmering controversy over remarks she made about...
Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next...
The Trevor Project uses data from its National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to highlight and discuss the diversity of youth...
Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...