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Today in Black America - September 21

POSTED: September 21, 2016, 10:30 am

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Today in Black History: Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanist and the first President of Ghana, was born in 1909 in what was then the Gold Coast (Ghana).

The New York Times


National

Protests Erupt in Charlotte After Police Kill Black Man

Obama Considers Arming Syrian Kurds Against ISIS

Hillary Clinton: My Plan for Helping America’s Poor

California Voters Face Choice: End Death Penalty, or Speed It Up

Chicago Is Planning to Add Hundreds of Police Officers


S.E.C. Is Latest to Look Into Exxon Mobil’s Workings


Bombing Case Points to Gaps in Trump’s and Clinton’s Antiterrorism Plans

Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles Post on Twitter Fits a Pattern


Local


Fort Lee Officials Recall Chaos and Turmoil as Lanes to Bridge Were Closed

3 New York Corrections Officers Charged in ’13 Beating of Inmate



The Christian Science Monitor


College supply list for low-income students: Books, financial aid ... a mentor


Protests last through the night in Charlotte, N.C., after police shooting

Tulsa's police chief vows to do 'the right thing.' What does that look like?



The Star Ledger


Clash over co-ed pool restrictions at N.J. adult community leads to lawsuit

Battle over funding for Meadowlands mall moves to court

All entries in Port Authority terminal design competition will be losers

N.J. millennials need help to get out of the nest | Editorial



Philly.com


Philly pharma firm lays off a quarter of its staff

Inquirer Editorial: Philly legislator who tried to hide her felony conviction should resign before the election

Inquirer's parent company settles libel suit brought by former Convention Center official

Pa. bill would give NRA, others right to sue over gun laws



The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Trump should use Cleveland visit to tell black voters what the hell they have to gain by his election: Phillip Morris


Cleveland poverty numbers drop sharply


Forum sheds light on Cleveland residents' lingering concerns with police use of force


Rocky River Montessori school accused of kicking out child with autism settles with U.S. Justice Department

Ohio lawmaker asks parents to get rid of real-looking toy guns



The Washington Post

For Clinton, attacking Trump may not be enough

African American Museum offers chance to talk about slavery, but few people want to

Violent protests erupt in Charlotte after police fatally shoot black man

A bank too big to fail and too arrogant to admit it


Trump faces backlash after saying African Americans are ‘in the worst shape they’ve ever been’


Marshawn Lynch finds his voice on police shootings, Colin Kaepernick protest


Fairfax approves hiring auditor to monitor police use-of-force investigations


Federal appeals court questions D.C.’s restrictions on concealed carry of firearms

College student from D.C. is fatally stabbed in Baltimore


The Detroit Free Press

Corrections officers: Sept. 10 disturbance at Kinross 'was a riot'

DTE helps improve energy reliability at DPS

Morale low among Michigan teachers, survey shows

New express bus connects Detroit to Somerset mall



The Chicago Tribune


Chicago Teachers Union strike authorization vote starts today

3 dead, 6 hurt in city shootings


Emanuel to boost police force by 500 officers, promote hundreds

As other cities dig up pipes made of toxic lead, Chicago resists


The Los Angeles Times


Police Commission faults LAPD officers in two deadly shootings

Anger grows in Tulsa as police release video of fatal shooting of unarmed black man


Demonstrators rally on N.C. highway; 12 officers injured in protests over police shooting


Seattle's new war on drugs: Giving heroin addicts 'safe sites' to shoot up


State agency under fire for pressuring open-government groups it regulates to change position on legislation


USA Today


Protests erupt in Charlotte after police kill man; 12 officers hurt


ACLU: Tulsa officer shot Terence Crutcher 'in cold blood'










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