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Florida Frat Members' Blackface Stirs Controversy
Two members of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at the University of Florida who wore blackface to a party last week found themselves in the midst of controversy on campus and across the nation after the image was posted to Instagram, the Huffington Post reports. The photo, taken at an off-campus party on Oct. 24,…
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Obama Prepared to Dispatch Election Lawyers
The Washington Examiner reports that President Barack Obama, concerned that his supporters will be turned away at the voting booths during early voting, is offering legal assistance to those who encounter obstacles at the polls. He made the statement during an interview on Thursday with American Urban Radio Networks: “If people have problems voting, we can…
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Hurricane Sandy Update
Hurricane Sandy barreled across mid-Atlantic states as a downgraded storm Monday and overnight, leaving a wave of destruction including massive flooding, power outages, fires and reports of at least 33 deaths in seven states, government officials and emergency authorities said, according to the Washington Post. A 13-foot surge of seawater flooded streets, tunnels, parking garages and parts…
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Billboard: 'MLK Was a Republican. Vote Republican!'
During the final days of the presidential election, a black conservative group in Dallas is making a last-ditch effort to appeal to minority voters by painting slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a Republican. A group known as the Raging Elephants has installed billboards across the city that read: “Martin Luther King,…
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Bobbi Kristina $20 Million Inheritance Settled
Less than a month after reports circulated that Whitney Houston’s family, as executors of the late star’s estate, had filed a petition against her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in an effort to modify the 19-year-old’s inheritance payments, the Huffington Post reports that the case has apparently been settled. Sources tell TMZ, that Kristina and her grandmother,…
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Chicago Ties Last Year's Homicide Total
With only two months to go, Chicago’s homicide total on Monday reached 435, matching last year’s total murder count, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The 435th homicide victim of the year was a man in his 30s, who was shot on a South Side street. The city’s homicide count grabbed international attention when it spiked…
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A Year After Troy Davis: What's Changed?
(The Root) — The crushing image of a sobbing Elijah West captured the collective sorrow of people across the globe a year ago when word spread that a Georgia Parole Board had denied clemency for his cousin Troy Davis. The photograph of the reedy West being escorted from Georgia’s Towaliga County Line Baptist Church, across…
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'Roughing It Easy' on the Road
(The Root) — With all the talk about soaring gas prices, the last vehicle travelers are likely to consider when they’re thinking about going on a road trip is a recreational vehicle. But Elbert Smith Sr., president of the National African-American RV’ers Association, says that travelers should think again because the vehicles are not the…
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