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Florida Calls for Recount in West-Murphy Race
Florida election workers weren’t only tallying votes from the presidential election this weekend, but also ballots from the House race between Rep. Allen West and his opponent, Democrat Patrick Murphy. A first count of the votes for the incumbent and his challenger left West, a staunch Republican, trailing by 2,000 votes, but on Saturday evening,…
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Racist Tweeters Located, Most in the South
There’s a line from The Social Network: “The Internet’s not written in pencil … it’s written in ink.” So when some Americans expressed their feelings about over President Obama’s re-election on Tuesday through racist tweets, it was easy to pinpoint the geographic sources of the messages. Mississippi and Alabama were the most vocal, reports the…
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Danai Gurira: Surviving in a World of Zombies
(The Root) — Fantastical dramas like Lord of the Rings don’t feature a bevy of black and brown characters, but that’s not the case with graphic novels. The genre has a pantheon of strong female characters of color, such as Agent 355 in Y: The Last Man and Michonne from The Walking Dead. We see…
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President Obama Wins Florida
Though Election Day was Tuesday, Florida finally tallied their final results on Saturday. The state that has wrangled voting problems since 2000 completed their ballot counting early in the weekend, reports the Washington Post. The Florida Secretary of State’s Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt…
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FBI Bust Texas Aryan Brotherhood Crime Ring
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is much more than white supremacists fighting for their vision of racial inequality. The contemporary prison gang, modeled after a similar organization which began in California during the 1960s, has ties in and out of the incarceration system and dabbled in murder, kidnapping, racketeering and drug distribution, reports the Washington…
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Original Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter Dies
On Thursday, a piece of history died when original Tuskegee Airman Herbert Eugene Carter passed away at the age of 95. The retired Army officer died at East Alabama Medical Center, according to the Associated Press. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots trained for combat, in a segregated unit called the 99th Fighter Squadron…
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Elderly at Risk of Hypothermia in Public Housing
Power has returned to parts of New York and New Jersey, but not everyone is back to normal. Some residents in areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy and the following snow storm are still dealing with dangerously low temperatures in their own homes. Alternet reports that more than 20,000 residents across New York City alone…
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General Petraeus Cheated With Biographer
General David Petraeus resigned from his post on Friday, citing an extramarital affair. Now Slate has revealed that the person with whom he had the affair was his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Raised in North Dakota, the author, 39, lives with her husband in North Carolina with their two sons. Sources tell me that President…
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MHP: Why Women Must Vote
According to MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, 76 laws limiting abortion were passed in 2012. Women, especially those who understand the importance of women’s health, therefore must vote. During an MSNBC election special entitled “Why Women Matter,” Harris-Perry spoke with Sandra Fluke, the woman verbally attacked by Republican pundit Rush Limbaugh earlier this year, and others…
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Obama and Romney in Dead Heat, Poll Shows
Tuesday’s presidential race may be the closest in history, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to the latest poll from Wall Street Journal/NBC News, President Obama and Mitt Romney are nearly tied in the fight for voters, and both hit their final campaign stops to rally their supporters. The two candidates enter the final stage…
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