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Marcy Rose & Joseph Soranno are Financial Advisors with the Global Wealth Management Division of Morgan Stanley.Tonight, Marc...
Following a two-week string of gay-bashings, one of which ended with the shooting death of a man in the West Village, City Co...
Harry Reid and Ted Cruz had a confrontation over the budget proceedings in the Senate yesterday in which Harry Reid called Cr...
It's quite clear the Republicans intend to keep their theory of a Benghazi coverup alive in any way possible, quite likel...
President Obama finished a press conference this morning and began leaving but then returned to the podium to say he was prou...
Nevada state Senator Kelvin Atkinson, who famously came out during a marriage equality debate, is a very special guest tonigh...
Addressing the response to the Boston Marathon Bombings, former Congressman Barney Fank told CNN we should be thankful for a ...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyDuring a speech at Howard University on Wednesday,...
Someone set fire to nearly a dozen Jewish religious symbols outside residents’ front doors in a Brooklyn apartment buil...
Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon is so set against marriage equality, he won't support the right for gays to marry even in...
Nancy Pelosi blasted the GOP yesterday, first for pushing the enaction of the Defense of Marriage Act, then for spending mill...
In arguments yesterday on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, Justice Elena Kagan scoffs at the notion t...
Senator (D) Mark Warner of Virginia announced his support for Marriage Equality via a brief statement posted yesterday on his...
North Dakota lawmakers moved Friday to outlaw abortion in the state by passing a bill defining life as starting at conception...
DCCC Chair Steve Israel on weighs-in on guns, immigration, and the 2014 midterms.Tune in to The Ed Schultz Show weekdays from...
On Sunday, March 24, marriage equality supporters will march from the historic Stonewall Inn to Washington Square Park to exp...
Republican Party head Reince Preibus previewed the GOP's plan to resurrect itself this weekend on Face The Nation. The pl...
Raising the Medicare eligibility age is just "a trophy, it’s a scalp, but it’s not a solution," accordi...
Jeb Bush was for comprehensive immigration reform including a path to citizenship, then he was against it, then he was for it...
Middle class Americans will pay the price for the sequester, thanks to a lack of action from Congressional Republicans. Paul ...
The Republicans are pushing for a raise in the minimum age requirement to receive Medicare which would leave thousands of sen...
There's a lot of talk but no action on the sequester. The devastating cuts are scheduled to hit next month, Republicans a...
LGBT Percentage Highest in Washington, DC, Lowest in North DakotaGallop has released the largest study of its kind breaking d...
A recent video garnering attention on the internet shows a Native American man heckling anti-illegal immigration protesters.T...
On Wednesday night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert dedicated the opening segment to LGBT issues, notably the argument...
The WWRL Morning Show with Mark Riley broadcasts live from the Families USA Health Action 2013 in Washington, DC. Join the co...
Volkswagen's Super Bowl commercials the last couple years have drawn wide praise, but its newest spot has garnered some c...
Hawaii News Now reports that actor Jim Nabors married his partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle, Washington two weeks ago.&qu...
"I think same sex couples should be able to get married."President Barak ObamaTune in to Equality Pride Radio weekn...
Another face-palm moment from the Lone Star State.The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has just released a new report sur...
By Justin Snow for MetroWeeklySen. Daniel Inouye, one of the upper chamber's strongest supporters of LGBT equality, died ...
[Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET] We are now learning that a male is being questioned by investigators, but he is not being called a ...
(Photo: AP)According to multiple reports, officials in Connecticut responded to a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
By: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court for the first time entered the debate over gay m...
Ronald Reagan created the “welfare queen” myth when he said, “She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelv...
The Human Rights Campaign unveiled its first-ever scorecard of LGBT municipal equality this week — and ranked Philadelp...
By: Sarah Wheaton of New York Times.In 1996, Kathryn Lehman was a soon-to-be married lawyer working for Republicans in the Ho...
Photo source: FlickrThe numbers reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country, and confirm that tax avoidance, ra...
Among the many stories that were put aside, but not forgotten, amidst the devastation of Hurricane Sandy was the heartbreakin...
Among the many stories that were put aside, but not forgotten, amidst the devastation of Hurricane Sandy was the heartbreakin...
Prior to the election, Gallup predicted that LGBT voters, overwhelmingly pro-Obama, had the potential to tip the election dec...
Jon Stewart hammered the so called job creators for using Obamacare as an excuse for layoffs. Stewart said, ‘Obamacare ...
By Emily Le CozTUPELO, Miss., Oct 2 (Reuters) - Mississippi's controversial new law requiring voters to show photo identi...
This is Matthew Vines. He has a sermon you need to watch. It's long. And 250,000 other people have already watched it (th...
This is Matthew Vines. He has a sermon you need to watch. It's long. And 250,000 other people have already watched it (th...
On her radio show, Dr. Laura said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus ...
By: Lou Colagiovani of Examiner.comIf you were to ask 100 people how much they believed a married person with one child would...
If you were to ask 100 people how much they believed a married person with one child would pay in taxes, you'd likely get...
The Senate on Wednesday voted 51 to 48 to extend tax cuts for most working Americans and end Bush-era tax breaks in 2013 for ...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama'...
By: Ray MedeirosHow stupid do Republicans think Americans are? You can not blame President Obama for rising poverty, that is ...
HIV Prevention Among Men/Women/Couples!!Hear The GREAT NEWS about The FDA Approval of the HIV Vaccine/ Home Testing kit/ and ...
By Pat GarofaloTo hear conservatives and Tea Partiers tell it, President Obama is a serial tax-raiser who has increased taxes...
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: Frank Ocean Frees Himself and OthersBy: Clay CaneStop the press: A mainstream, black, male artis...
Originally posted on Reddit by CaspianX2, this is a good, simple breakdown of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - Voter support for President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul has increased following the...
Could you imagine this happening in New York?By: Robert SobelOf The Orlando Liberal ExaminerOver the last 50 years, the Repub...
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer joins Yetta Kurland tonight at 10 PM.Mark Hannay of Health Care for All also joins...
By: Ta-Nehisi Coats of TheAtlantic.comThe tactic of rebutting a legitimate charge of racism by taking loud and oafish offense...
By Linda Hirshman of The New YorkerThis Sunday, as every fourth Sunday in June, the streets of New York will fill with pridef...
By Linda Hirshman of The New YorkerThis Sunday, as every fourth Sunday in June, the streets of New York will fill with pridef...
By: Jenée Desmond-Harris of TheRoot.com and Gene Demby of Huffington PostVice President Joe Biden didn't mince any...
By: Jenée Desmond-Harris of TheRoot.com and Gene Demby of Huffington PostVice President Joe Biden didn't mince any...
Another federal judge has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding that the law “should not be presumed ...
Photo credit: Reverend Sharpton joins leaders and LGBT organizations in "stop and frisk" conversation (Getty)Member...
DOMA ruling: US gay marriage law unconstitutional, Boston court findsA lawyer for gay married couples said the 1996 law amoun...
Revelers celebrate during the Gay Pride parade on June 26, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)By Clay C...
Clay Cane will narrate the opening ceremonies of AIDS Walk NY this Sunday inCentral Park.Walk for life! Click here for more i...
This was a speech given August 15, 1970 by Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Here he addresses the issue of...
Jay-Z has come out in support of President Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage. In a recent interview with CNN, th...
President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pr...
The LGBT Money Money Show with Marcy Rose & Joe Soranno of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Monday nights at 10 PM.This week Marcy...
Film or stage, stories on race are always risky. Look at the heat The Help and Viola Davis received for telling the story of ...
DALLAS -- The company that makes Twinkies, Wonder bread and Ding Dongs says it's making a final offer to workers to accep...
By: Amanda Terkel & Sam SteinWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday decided not to move forward with an executiv...
By MARK LANDLER of the New York TimesPublished: April 3, 2012 WASHINGTON — President Obama opened a full-frontal assaul...
By Nurse Pamaddictinginfo.orgI was talking recently with a new friendwho I’m just getting to know. She tends to be some...
NY Pension Reform Air Wars, Chapter IIThe battle over pension reform in Albany is heating up the airwaves -- and the rhetoric...
Jerry Hickey, Scientific Director of InVite Health, and Mark Riley will host a live broadcast discussion and exhibit on Sunda...
20 Obvious Lies That Will Shock Conservatives (If They Ever Bothered To Read A Book Or Two)March 6, 2012By Justin "Filth...
Omega 3's may play an important role in protecting against mental health problems.By Alan PressmanA shocking headline rep...
Omega 3's may play an important role in protecting against mental health problems.Dr. Alan PressmanA shocking headline re...
March 1, 2012 - New Jersey Same-Sex Marriage Support At New High, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Back Holding Refer...
Here is an interesting article from the Hall of Governors celebrating Black History Month including early civil rights, arts ...
New Jersey's state Senate approved a same-sex marriage bill by a vote of 24-16 Monday and the state Assembly is expected ...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged no tax hikes, but warned of skyrocketing pension costs and ballooning budget deficits in futu...
Is the Port Authority waging war against Gays in Midtown? Famed club Escuelita will lose its liquor license and Gay people of...
On Tuesday's Mark Riley Morning ShowCory Booker talks with Mark about gay marriage and public safetyRev. James Manship of...
While politics at the dinner table is considered a taboo subject, yapping about it on social media carries a different sort o...
Advocacy group Transportation Alternatives wants to know straphangers' opinion of MTA service in the past few years.They&...
Blacks, Hispanics and younger New Yorkers had the hardest time finding a job in the waning months of 2011, according to data ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out his 2012-13 state budget proposal Tuesday, warning that school districts that don't implement a ...
By Clay CaneFans of Real Housewives of Atlanta and tons of straight women in the Big Peach might disagree with The Advocate, ...
WASHINGTON -- A new Quinnipiac University poll finds New Yorkers overwhelmingly back the Occupy Wall Street protesters, and e...
Bev Smith began her television and radio career in 1971 when she was named Pittsburgh’s first African-American Consumer...
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Living as an undocumented immigrant in this country is a civil infraction, not a criminal act. But, some members of our House...
Republicans want to stop the Securities and Exchange Commission from adopting rule 4-637, which would require corporations to...
After years of complaining that Democrats haven't passed a budget, now Republicans are refusing to negotiate at all on th...
Republicans plan to try to add several “killer amendments” to the gun control bill being debated in the Senate. T...
President Obama has officially released his fifth annual budget. Once again, the president has put forward a mix of infrastru...
Despite the fact that Americans want Medicare and Social Security protected, President Obama has once again included cuts to ...
It looks like President Obama is still open to negotiations with Republican economic terrorists. Details of the president'...
Yesterday the NRA unveiled its plan for not dealing with gun violence. Their plan is to prevent more shootings in schools by ...
Investigators in the killings of a Texas district attorney and his wife suspect that the culprits may be a white supremacist ...
Today, the federal Defense of Marriage was challenged before the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor. The issue being c...
Minutes before 5am, early Saturday morning, members of the Senate did something they haven't done in four years - they pa...
At a hearing on an assault weapons ban, freshman Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to get snotty with 20-year veteran o...
Republicans hate tax increases... unless they're part of Paul Ryan's budget plan. The adoption of $600 billion in new...
We received a very racist email from one “Daniel,” but one that was oddly cordial. It wasn’t dripping with ...
You need to know this. House Republicans won't give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare – and now Represent...
President Obama is negotiating with economic terrorists. And a new Reuters report shows he's giving in to their demands b...
Yesterday, one shocking statement spurred audible gasps in the Supreme Court. During oral arguments about Section 5 of the Vo...
We don't pay too much attention to oral arguments before the US Supreme Court. The last time we did, it was when the nine...
Remember when the problem the host of the Oscars had was that they had to try to make everybody happy? Seth MacFarlane solved...
At least, 26 Republican-leaning states sure do. Despite over 30 attempts to repeal Obamacare, and Tenth-er arguments for soci...
Today, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will put out a new deficit-reduction plan. The pair served on President Obama's fi...
Trying to accomplish the long list of goals he set for his second term. Just since his State of the Union speech, less than a...
Tonight, President Obama delivers his fifth State of the Union address, and his first since beginning his second term in offi...
There are less than 20 days until the March 1st Sequester deadline. And Washington is gearing up for a major fight. If politi...
On Tuesday, President Obama urged Congress to put off the looming sequester of nearly a trillion dollars in spending cuts. Bu...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to screw over working people in his state. Earlier this week – he vetoed l...
Welcome to America, where half the nation lives right on the razor’s edge. A shocking new report out of the Corporation...
Today President Obama announces some of his plan for immigration reform. The President’s plan will surely be better tha...
With President Obama set to tackle immigration reform on Tuesday, a group of bipartisan Senators came out today with their ow...
In the Senate. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he’s giving Republicans 24 to 36 hours to come to the...
Aaron, who often appeared on this show, was found dead in his apartment after an apparent suicide over the weekend. He had lo...
All around us, people are coming down with the flu – and the Centers for Disease Control warn that it could be the wors...
The days of guaranteed retirement benefit in the form of a pension are long gone. As numbers out of the Bureau of Labor Stati...
Florida Governor Rick Scott is using poor people in his state as pawns in his political game. Scott is one of a number of Rep...
Speaker of the House John Boehner failed to get his members in line to vote on a plan to avert the so-called “fiscal cl...
All eyes are on Speaker of the House John Boehner to see if he has control of his Republican Party. Today, Boehner will try t...
But he’s also making a run at capitulator of the year. Fallout continues one day after the White House proposed turning...
In a memorial speech on Sunday for the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Obama called the na...
We all now know about Right-to-Work-for-less laws in Michigan, thanks to Republican Governor Rick Snyder and the corporate ol...
Into law in Michigan, the focus shifts to how working people can overturn the legislation. Unfortunately, Republicans purpose...
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is going to sign Michigan’s sleazy “right to work” law. There are going to be...
Last week, Michigan Republicans jammed through legislation making Michigan a “right to work” state. If you’...
On Tuesday as a group of Republican Senators blocked ratification of a UN treaty to help disabled people around the planet. T...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says that there simply can’t be a deal without tax rates on the wealthiest going up. We...
Listen carefully...And you’ll hear the drug war breathing its last gasps. Following the historic passage of marijuana l...
Mitt Romney has resurfaced again... like a corpse that floats up from the bottom of a lake at the end of a horror movie. Exce...
At least that’s how he’s spinning his landslide loss to President Obama in last week’s election. According ...
In the last month – two homeowners facing eviction in Spain have committed suicide prompting the Spanish banking associ...
And Republicans are openly acknowledging they have a much weaker hand post-election. One of the top Conservative thinkers, th...
On Tuesday, Fox so-called News, the Drudge Report, and the Daily Caller threw together a rather pathetic - and racist - attem...
That’s the conclusion of a new study by the Center for American Progress looking at data from the Pew Research Center. ...
The Mitt Romney campaign is still in crisis after a leaked video showed Romney deriding 47% of Americans who he claims are vi...
The nation remembers 9/11 today, and is reminded about the utter failures of the Bush administration leading up to the attack...
Republicans are desperately trying to rig the election in November by kicking millions of Democratic voters off the rolls wit...
The Pew Research Center has done a new study on the middle class here in America, and it's not pretty. For a lot of folks...
The Republicans National Convention is less than a week away, but the Party has been hard at work drafting its official 2012 ...
Not only can’t we rely on them to create jobs – but we can’t rely on them to give charity either. A new stu...
The GOP ticket is set – Mitt Romney will be running for president alongside Republican Congressman from Wisconsin &ndas...
This time it was in Oak Creek Wisconsin where an, armed to the teeth gunman, walked into a Sikh temple and opened fire &ndash...
After it was the first bank to be hit by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for defrauding consumers and ordered to pay...
The heirs of the Wal Mart fortune – the Walton family – have gotten a lot wealthier since the Bush recession bega...
Despite what you might have seen on cable news networks Fox News and CNN, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare today – ru...
One day after the Supreme Court struck down nearly the entirety of Arizona's controversial anti-immigration law SB-1070 &...
Have you ever had something happen that was so racist that you didn't even get mad, you're just like "Damn, that...
Mitt Romney is trying to dance around the immigration issue. And Mitt’s dancing is even worse than his singing. While M...
RIP, Rodney King. Though he was in the middle of an incident that brought out the worst in people, Rodney King let it bring o...
You need to know this. Get your lawsuits ready – the state of Florida announced on Monday that it is filing a lawsuit a...
Former classmates say that in prep school, Mitt Romney had a Michigan state trooper’s uniform that he would wear to pul...
The economy added only 69,000 jobs last month (+82K private sector / -13K public sector). It was less than half of what analy...
As CNN reports – wage theft complaints have increased 400% over the last decade – with over 7,000 lawsuits allegi...
Anyone who doubts the United States has been in an economic free fall for the last three decades should check out the new Uni...
Protesters bring the message of anti-war/anti-austerity to world leaders at the NATO summit in ChicagoTens of thousands of ac...
Details of the investigation into the Trayvon Martin killing are coming out. According to his family doctor, George Zimmerman...
The old Chestnut "The Greatest Love of All" starts with the phrase, "I believe that children are our future&qu...
On the same day that President Obama and the nation took a major step forward toward marriage equality – Republicans in...
In North Carolina, they voted to ban gay marriage... which was already prohibited in the state. I think they just enjoy banni...
George Zimmerman is out of jail. Let’s hope that the ankle bracelet he has to wear is more able to hold him back than t...
The AFL-CIO is out with their new Executive Pay Watch report – revealing that CEOs at Fortune 500 companies made on ave...
Children are the biggest victims of the current housing crisis.In 2008 - Wall Street got bailed out – and homeowners go...
The Buffett Rule will get a vote in the Senate today...– but it likely won’t be able to overcome a unified Republ...
The banksters and technocrats, pushing austerity in Greece, now have blood on their handsOn Wednesday – a 77-year-old r...
Minimum wage workers are screwed. While Republicans in Congress want to drop or throw away the federal minimum wage – n...
Today, President Obama shredded Paul Ryan’s budget plan. He did it verbally, but it would have been a nice touch if he ...
Pay no attention to the lies already coming from the Right – corporations are paying less in taxes in America than they...
Working people across that nation went on strike and took to the streets to protest an austerity budget being pushed by their...
Amnesty International is out with a new report on the death penalty – showing that only 20 out of the 198 nations world...
Putting aside the Republican's war on women for a moment – a new report from the National Women’s Law Center ...
Republicans in Congress unveiled their vision for America today – and if they succeed, the 99% of us are condemned to l...
Rick Santorum is promising to fight pornography. That’s rich—depending on what search engine you use, Santorum IS...
Never mind putting boots on the ground in Syria. Iran's nuke program can wait. The war that's being waged in this cou...
On Saturday – the radio voice of the Republican Party – Rush Limbaugh – issued a non-apology to Georgetown ...
Mistreated workers are screwed in Georgia, where the Peach State has opened a new front in the war on working people. This we...
The Banksters like stealing candy from little children. No, I'm not exaggerating...they really do. At least according to ...
Yesterday I said how much I missed the Republican debates. And about a minute into last night’s debate, l I remembered ...
More than a 1,000 people – most of whom were women – took to the streets outside the Virginia state capital on Mo...
Low-income children are screwed when it comes to getting a good education. New studies show that a quality education in Ameri...
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels took his state backwards on Wednesday – signing legislation to make Indiana the 23rd &ld...
It’s Election Day in Florida! Some people are saying that the results from Florida may give the Republican race a degre...
The new jobs numbers are out. It seems that President Obama is beating the recession a lot more convincingly than Mitt Romney...
So, the House Republicans who two weeks ago didn't want to extend a payroll tax cut now want a one year extension or nothing...
The House has gone home for their Christmas break without extending the middle class payroll tax extension. They could have...
House Republicans have prepared a measure that rejects the Senate tax cut extension bill while at the same time calling for...
The middle class is becoming an endangered species in America. According to the latest census data - half of the country is ...
Republican Presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to throw you in jail for smoking pot – he w...
Average working Americans could get screwed. Republicans may agree to extend the payroll tax cut for middle class Americans ...
On Capitol Hill – Blue Dog Democrats have signaled a willingness to join Republicans in support of a Balanced Budget A...
In late September, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that essentially allows New York City cops and firemen to hold onto the...
The October jobs report is out—the chance for President Obama to see how good he was able to do, and for Congressiona...
Republicans are continuing to ignore the jobs crisis. There are no votes on the schedule in the House of Representatives to ...
Who's still unemployed? Mainly those — women, young people, blacks — who lack the political clout to get ...
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Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
Equality Pride Radio celebrates New York City's LGBT community. Finance, politics, legal matters, health & fitness, life-coa...
