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Today in Black America - February 22

POSTED: February 22, 2016, 8:00 am

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Today in Black History: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY) is denied his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for misuse of funds on this date in 1967.

The New York Times

National


Delegate Count Leaves Sanders a Steep Climb to Catch Clinton

Cruz and Rubio Vie to Become Top Rival to Trump

Donald Trump’s South Carolina Victory Spurs New G.O.P. Jostling

In a Black Church in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders Struggles to Get an ‘Amen’


Kalamazoo Shootings Leave 6 Dead as Gunman Fires Randomly


Like the Last President to Visit Cuba, Obama Seeks a Change

How Will Supreme Court Work? First, See How Congress Works

A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding

16 Years After Bush v. Gore, Still Wrestling With Ballot-Box Rules



Local

Subway Sex Crimes Increase as Police Urge Women to Come Forward

Teaching Bronx Students the Language of Computers

2 Plainclothes Police Officers Are Shot After a Brief Car Chase in Brooklyn


The Christian Science Monitor

CSI Cleveland: How the city is curbing sexual violence

How California residents are changing the water landscape


Fight over Scalia's successor reignites Supreme Court term limit debate

Trump victory in South Carolina primary: Can he be stopped?

What Hillary Clinton’s Nevada victory means


The Star-Ledger

NJ Transit's riders have suffered enough — get this labor deal done | Editorial


South Jersey mental hospital tops state injury, death report

Guess which N.J. lawmaker refuses to toe the party line?


'Black Lives Matter' banners stolen, lights smashed at N.J. church

Elizabeth schools spent more on lawyers than textbooks, report says


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Ohio voters support medical marijuana amendment, poll finds

Reggie Rucker's failures will harm future creative non-violence in Cleveland: Phillip Morris

Ohio will get millions more to fight blight and foreclosures



The Detroit Free Press

Kalamazoo mourns shooting victims at Sunday night vigil


Farrakhan: Black unity can help rebuild Detroit

Presidential endorsement from Snyder unlikely, for now

Scoring change will make GED easier to pass

Flint mayor opposes no-bid choice to assess city pipes


Philly.com


Porngate: Lots of emails from 1 lawyer

Philly spends more than other big cities for its elections office

Educators challenging Philly union leadership

Wolf endorses Montco's Shapiro for AG

A month in as police chief, how's Ross doing?


The Los Angeles Times

Labor and business groups in L.A. are united against one housing measure — and divided by another

Only one of California's pot legalization initiatives has the green that counts

The problem with slut shaming in schools


Local districts express alarm over ruling allowing access to student data


The Washington Post


Uber driver accused in Michigan shooting spree had alarmed his passengers

Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb

GOP candidates chart different paths ahead of Super Tuesday

Clinton defeats Sanders in Nevada; black voter support appears decisive

Editorial: Rethink life tenure for the Supreme Court

He was fired from the CIA and imprisoned for a leak. Now he’s trying to hang on.


After almost every official in this Texas town was arrested, the water turned black


In the age of Common Core, states are still defining ‘proficient’ differently


Andrew Jackson: The violence, the fight

John King is trying to repair the Obama administration’s frayed relationship with teachers

Edwards, Van Hollen agree to four debates in race for Md. Senate seat


D.C. attorney general seeks to ban PACs like the one that benefited mayor


USA Today

After Kalamazoo shootings, the big question: Why?


106-year-old dances her way through the White House





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