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Former Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor has made history, becoming the first openly gay mayor to lead the Florida city. Castor joins Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi to discuss how she beat her opponent in a landslide victory – and…

The Trump administration is starting a campaign to end the global criminalization of homosexuality in countries where it is illegal to be gay. The initiative is being spearheaded by Richard Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany and the highest-profile openly…

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was assaulted in Chicago on Tuesday by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him and wrapped a rope around his neck in an attack police are investigating as a hate crime, officials said.…

Charles Johnson’s 15 minutes of infamy may not have run their course. It was enough that some critics — Dr. Harry Edwards and civil rights attorney John Burris among them — called for a boycott of the Giants. … I walked away thinking this is a pretty decent fellow,” he said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Need I even describe Santorum's long record as a senator and in other roles attacking LGBTQ communities? Followed by: Johnson has contributed $ to James Inhofe's campaigns. pic.twitter.com/Oxgt0uWy7t 2014, Johnson contributed $2,600 to Bill Cassidy's campaign for U.S. Senate. Gianforte lobbied against a Bozeman city anti-discrimination law to protect LGBTQ people. He's given over $1 million to groups that are anti-LGBTQ, including some that peddle conversion "therapy." — Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) December 4, 2018 In all, BondGraham cites 13 politicians (including one-time presidential candidate Michele Bachmann) and one PAC among Johnson’s political benefactors. “All of which is to say that Johnson’s recent campaign contributions to a candidate who joked about attending a lynching, and to a PAC that ran racist ads in Arkansas, is contextualized in a long history of his giving to anti-LGBTQ politicians,” BondGraham wrote.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a move that could end some government protections for hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans by defining gender by whether a baby is born male or female. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour…

A new leaked document shows the Trump administration is considering a major change to transgender policy. Ali Velshi breaks down how the U.S. defines gender right now, and who could be hurt – even endangered – if the definition changed.…

But the U.S. working class actually has a higher percentage of people of color than our population overall. And black and Latino household income and wealth still lag well behind whites — gaps that didn’t arise by chance. More recently, Fox News has peddled feverish nonsense about the tiny New Black Panther Party, “illegal immigrants” and more. From spreading hysteria about MS-13 to making dishonest claims that football players who kneel during the national anthem “don’t respect the flag,” the president has aggressively pushed the most divisive form of identity politics: white identity politics. Many black, brown and young voters turned out for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 but stayed home in 2016. As the Pew Research Center reported, black turnout tanked in 2016, dropping seven percentage points from 2012. As the record Florida primary turnout for Andrew Gillum showed, millions of new and occasional voters stand ready to support candidates who call out the discrimination at the heart of Trump’s policies and show they’ll fight it. Orson Aguilar is president of The Greenlining Institute. No one covers what is happening in our community better than we do. And with a digital subscription, you'll never miss a local story.

Axios' Mike Allen breaks down the results from Tuesday's primaries, including the historic win for Vermont's Christine Hallquist, who became the first transgender person to win a major party’s nomination for governor. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is…

CNN's Don Lemon spoke to Vermont democrat Christine Hallquist, who CNN projects will become the first transgender gubernatorial nominee for a major political party.