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Ebola Relief Workers: US, We Want Your Aid, Not Your Troops
The U.S., United Kingdom, European Union and the Gates Foundation are all donating money and resources to help curb the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but aid workers on the ground have one main concern with the strings attached to America’s aid: The U.S. wants to dispatch a security detail to accompany the health care…
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Mike Tyson Goes Mike Tyson on a Reporter After ‘Convicted Rapist’ Remark
There’s a harrowing moment in Mike Tyson’s one-man stage play, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, when he describes how he was accused of, tried for and eventually convicted of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington in 1992. He talks—sensitively—about how he wasn’t the first person Washington had accused of rape and how his agent at the time, Don King, hired…
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Experts Fear Boko Haram Will Split Nigeria in 2
Boko Haram insurgents—the jihadist terrorist group in Nigeria that gained international notoriety for abducting more than 200 schoolgirls in April—is gaining ground in Nigeria. They’re hoping to establish an Islamic state in the regions that they’ve captured, much as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is trying to do in Syria and Iraq.…
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World Leaders Beg Nations to Legalize Drug Use and Regulate Its Production
American liberals who have been imploring policymakers to put a stop to the nation’s war on drugs should be happy to know that several world leaders have backed a new report advocating for the same thing on a global level. The report, “Take Control: Pathway to Drug Policies That Work,” argues that nations should consider…
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Ray Rice Breaks Silence, Says He Has to Be Strong for His Wife
Ray Rice broke his silence Tuesday for the first time following his indefinite suspension by the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL, telling an ESPN reporter that his main objective at the moment was to be strong for his wife, Janay, and his family. “I have to be strong for my wife. She is so strong. ……
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Ebola Infection Growing Rapidly in Liberia
The efforts to treat people infected with the Ebola virus and to stop the transmission of the disease have led to a domino effect in Liberia that is causing infections to grow at an exponential rate. According to the BBC, potentially infected people take taxicabs to hospitals and treatment centers, the type of public vehicle…
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US-Sponsored African Coalition Is Accused of Raping Somali Women and Girls
It’s hard to imagine that the very place Somali women and girls go to seek refuge from the famine and fighting that have engulfed their country—shelter camps organized by African Union troops in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu—is where some of them are allegedly being raped by soldiers tasked with protecting them. According to Al-Jazeera, Somali women…
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The Root TV: Whose Race Legacy Will Reign Supreme: Obama’s or Holder’s?
Going into the final stretch of President Barack Obama’s presidency, as Americans—and particularly African Americans—begin to form opinions about his legacy on issues of race (that is, what he’s done for black people), they’ll look back to a couple of great rhetorical moments and key policy successes, but they’ll also remember that he was perhaps…
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Obama Doubles Down on Vow to Eradicate ISIS
President Barack Obama doubled down on his vow to eliminate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—the terrorist group responsible for the recent beheadings of two American journalists—Wednesday during a press conference in Estonia. According to an Al-Jazeera report, Obama, using an alternative acronym for the group, issued this declaration: “Our objective is clear, and…
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Watch: Debating ‘Black Female Privilege’
It struck some people as an oxymoron. They couldn’t wrap their minds around how the words “black women” and “privilege” were being used in the same sentence in this article, let alone how they were being used to describe anything having to do with the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. That I said Brown’s death made…
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