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Jesse Jackson Chides the NFL for Hiring an All-White Team of Domestic Violence Advisers
It’s nice that the NFL hired outside consultants to advise the league on its policies regarding players who are involved in domestic violence incidents, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes it is incredibly inappropriate that all of the consultants are white, Al-Jazeera reports. The league recently announced that Lisa Friel, Jane Randel and Rita Smith—three…
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4 Black People Receive the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
Four black Americans will be among those receiving a no-strings-attached, $625,000 stipend—paid out in installments over the next five years—to keep doing what they do best: being geniuses. That’s right, the MacArthur Foundation named 21 “extraordinarily creative people” as the 2014 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellows Program—widely referred to as the “genius” grants. Four…
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US Will Send 3,000 Military Officers to West Africa to Slow Ebola Catastrophe
The World Health Organization and the United Nations sent out the equivalent of an emergency distress signal Tuesday after reports that the number of people in West Africa infected with the Ebola virus now nears 5,000. More than 2,400 people have died from the disease, the New York Times reports. What’s even more alarming is…
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Smart Students From Low-Income Families Lock Down 4-Year, Tuition-Free Rides
There’s an ascending player in the cluster of nonprofit organizations that help high-achieving students from low-income families get into the best colleges in the nation, and it’s employing a simple strategy to entice qualified students: If you get into the school of your choice, you get to go for free, the New York Times reports. And for all four years, might I add. When the…
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CoverGirl Photo Altered With Bruised Eye to Blast NFL’s Response to Ray Rice
People who think the NFL did a poor job investigating and punishing former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice are circulating a photo on the Internet that is turning the NFL’s partnership with CoverGirl on its head. One of the photos from the Get Your Game Face On campaign, which originally showed a female model’s face with…
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Climate Activists Warn Obama About His Pro-Gas Views
Even though President Barack Obama has been getting tough on power plants to push them to cut back on their carbon dioxide emissions, his administration supports the extraction of natural gas, and environmental groups are warning him to fix that blemish on his climate legacy, Al-Jazeera reports. Climate experts are saying that contrary to the Obama administration’s…
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Dems Roll Out New 7-Figure Ad Campaign Ahead of Midterms
Reminding people to vote costs money. And to that end, the Democratic National Committee is spending a pretty penny—seven figures’ worth—on a national media campaign to get the word out that there is indeed a midterm election coming up and that blacks, Latinos, women, Asians and young Americans—all of whom show up to vote much…
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Postponed Immigration Reform Has Latinos Nonchalant About Midterm Elections
Since President Obama has decided not to move forward with any immigration-reform work until the midterm elections are over, voter-advocacy groups are finding it hard to get disappointed Latinos to the voting booths this fall. “It’s hard,” Sonia Marquez, a director for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, told Al-Jazeera. Of Obama’s postponement of his promised deportation relief for undocumented…
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Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty of Homicide
Oscar Pistorius—the double-amputee Olympic athlete on trial in South Africa for fatally shooting his model girlfriend—has been found guilty of culpable homicide and could face jail time. On Thursday Pistorius was found not guilty of two of the most serious murder charges, the New York Times reports. “Judge [Thokozile Matilda] Masipa cleared Mr. Pistorius of two…
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Missouri Mandates 72-Hour Waiting Period Before Abortion
Women in Missouri who decide to terminate their pregnancies now have to wait 72 hours after consulting with their doctors before going forward with the abortion, Al-Jazeera reports. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, initially tried to veto the piece of legislation mandating this 72-hour waiting period, but the state’s Republican-led Legislature overruled his veto Wednesday.…
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