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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding gay people and parenting. The book takes a look at the many restrictions and biases that gay people face as parents and debunks many of the stereotypes and untruths on which they are based. Selected Reading Questionnaire.

This documentary shows the men behind the Minuteman Project and the continuum between official Mexican-American border militarization and vigilante action. It tells the story of border tensions from the point of view of those affected and reveals the underlying motivations of the vigilantes through interviews and footage of their nighttime patrols.

This ACLU-issued report urges Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), and uses the stories of workers from across the country who have experienced workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity to make the case for passage of the bill.

From the cradle of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama to the wind-blown plains of South Dakota's Native American reservations, to the hallowed halls of an Ivy League college, Democracy's Ghosts spends time with people who are living out their lives as legal ghosts because of felony convictions. Their stories are complemented by interviews with experts and well-known personalities, among them evangelist Chuck Coleson, actor Charles Dutton, civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, and Harvard professor Lani Guinier.

More than four decades after the civil rights movement began, Americans are still treated as suspects because of the color of their skin. "Racial Profiling" features people who took action to combat police misconduct after they were pulled over and assaulted by state troopers for "DWB" (Driving While Black or Brown). Hip-hop artist M-1 and members of his group, dead prez, tell how they were attacked by police and jailed for days without charges being brought. This episode also shows how South Asian immigrants who came to this country to pursue the American dream lost everything because of post-Sept. 11 profiling.

"Beyond the Patriot Act" tells how misguided law and other government overreactions to Sept. 11 are restricting our most basic constitutional freedoms and threatening America's system of checks and balances. This episode features people like Patricia David, whose husband was secretly deported to Pakistan after Sept. 11, and Abdulameer Habeeb, a political refugee who was tortured by Saddam Hussein and found himself imprisoned in America without cause.