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Justice Department Protects Voting Rights for Minorities in Texas

By Ashley Lopez | 03.14.12 | 2:19 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Ed. note: This piece was written and published in coordination with Ms. Magazine.
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder used his powers under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 More… to block enforcement of a prohibitive new voting law in Texas. The law would have required voters to show

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FBI to expand definition of rape

By | 10.20.11 | 12:41 pm

For the past 82 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in its reporting of national crime statistics — has not recognized that men can be raped, that women can be raped by other women, that men and women can be raped with objects or that men and women can More…