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United Nations: Detroit Water Shutoffs Violate Human Rights
There’s a new player in Detroit who wants to bring attention to how the city has shut off the running water in thousands of homes because residents have been unable to pay their water bill. The water shutoff caused an outcry earlier this year from folks who believe the city’s response was severe and inhumane. Now the United…
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Hispanic Voters: GOP Candidates Running for House Seats Don’t Need You
With all the talk about how Hispanics will be the majority ethnic group in the U.S. in the near future, and all the studies that have, as a result, examined the political and economic power that they will wield, it’s surprising to hear that Republican candidates running for congressional seats don’t need a single Latino vote to be victorious in…
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Americans Aren’t Really Donating Money to the Ebola Outbreak
With all the ice buckets that got thrown over heads this past summer to raise money for Lou Gehrig’s disease (also called ALS), you’d think people would have that same zeal to fight a more immediate humanitarian crisis like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but the New York Times is reporting that donations for Ebola from…
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Some Rich, White People in Baton Rouge, La., Want to Form Their Own Town
The rich, white folk who live in Baton Rouge, La., want to secede and form their own town called St. George. Or at least that’s how their critics are articulating the initiative, the BBC reports. The secession, of sorts, is being sold as a well-intentioned plan that will allow St. George’s hypothetical residents to gain more…
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Black Ohio Newspaper Endorses Republican Governor for Re-Election
As conventional (and political) wisdom goes, black Americans, on average, typically vote for Democrats, and so when the Call & Post, a Cleveland newspaper that targets African-American readers, endorsed Ohio’s Republican governor for re-election on Tuesday, it represented a slight change of course in the stream of racial politics. Although it’s not the first time…
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Obama: National Guard, Be Ready to Go if West Africa Needs You
When the World Health Organization made clear the severity of the Ebola crisis, President Barack Obama sprang into action and committed a significant number of health care workers and military to the region—approximately 4,000 troops. Now that the virus has reached American shores and people are calling on the government to do more, the president told…
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UK Experts: Hip-Hop Can Be Used to Treat Mental Illness
Once on the fringe, hip-hop culture is now popular culture and is being taught and studied at some of the most selective universities around the world. Researchers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom believe that the genre can be used to help treat some mental illnesses. Becky Inkster, a neuroscientist in Cambridge University’s department…
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40,000 Voter-Registration Applications Submitted by Blacks and Hispanics Disappear in Ga.
Editor’s note: According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp claimed that nearly 40,000 voter-registration applications in Georgia that were supposedly unaccounted for have been found and processed, and those applicants are now registered to vote. Kemp also said on Thursday that another 10,000 or so applications need more information about the identities of the applicants before they are cleared.…
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Supreme Court Ruling Will Keep Several Texas Abortion Clinics Up and Running
The U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a law in Texas that would have made it difficult for several abortion clinics to stay up and running. According to an Al-Jazeera report, the law would have required Texas abortion clinics to spend millions of dollars on “hospital-level upgrades” so that the facilities would presumably be in top-notch shape…
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CDC to Dispatch Response Team to Any US Hospital With an Ebola Diagnosis
That a Dallas nurse contracted the Ebola virus as she was caring for the Liberian man who was diagnosed and later died from an Ebola infection is a safety mishap that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not taking lightly. That’s why on Tuesday, the CDC announced new protocols that it would take…
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