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Billboard about gender roles sparks debate, protest in North Carolina

Billboard about gender roles sparks debate, protest in North Carolina

"Real men provide. Real women appreciate it," is the message displayed on a new billboard along the highway near Winston-Salem. It wasn't received well by some in the community.
by Bethany Chafin

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Volunteers hack, scrape and crawl government websites to save data

Volunteers hack, scrape and crawl government websites to save data

Fear that environmental data could disappear under the Trump administration has spurred hundreds of volunteer researchers, hackers and archivists to start saving federal data on secure, non-government servers.
by Max Nesterak

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Black Lives Matter finds 'renewed focus' 5 years after Trayvon Martin

Black Lives Matter finds 'renewed focus' 5 years after Trayvon Martin

From the death that sparked a hashtag that became a national movement, Black Lives Matter takes on a new urgency under President Trump. Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors discusses what lies ahead.

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Racist, anti-Semitic graffiti found in Lakeville South High School

Racist, anti-Semitic graffiti found in Lakeville South High School

The Lakeville school district says a student will face discipline for putting racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on bathroom stalls at Lakeville South High School.
by MPR News Staff

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Mostly minority, mostly for Trump: Worthington mulls its future

Mostly minority, mostly for Trump: Worthington mulls its future

Worthington, Minn., went solidly for Donald Trump in the presidential election. That doesn't seem to square up with the town's need for immigrant workers and its increasingly diverse population.
by Mark Steil

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Trump administration weighs increased scrutiny of refugees' social media

Trump administration weighs increased scrutiny of refugees' social media

The Obama administration began checking social media accounts of prospective Syrian refugees more than a year ago. Such steps could expand as President Trump prepares a new executive order on vetting.
by Greg Myre

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DeVos, defiant at CPAC, walks a fine line on transgender rights

DeVos, defiant at CPAC, walks a fine line on transgender rights

President Trump's education secretary didn't hold back before conservative activists outside Washington, except when it came to the Trump administration's guidance on schools and transgender rights.

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Asian last names lead to fewer job interviews, still

Asian last names lead to fewer job interviews, still

For many Asian-Americans, this kind of discrimination means that the pressure to change their names and shed the perpetual foreigner stereotype is strong.
by Jenny J. Chen

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