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Today in Black America - July 5

POSTED: July 05, 2016, 7:00 am

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Today in Black History: Arthur Ashe, Jr. won the men's singles tennis championship at Wimbledon in 1975, making him the first Black male to take the title.

The New York Times

National

Lengthy Sentences of the ’90s Cram Prisons Today

Quiet Fixer in Donald Trump’s Campaign: His Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner


Graphic: Where Trump Breaks With the Republican Party


Donald Trump Finds Himself Playing Catch-Up in All-Important Ohio

Israelis’ Favorite Thing About Donald Trump? His Style (to Put It Bluntly)

In Dissents, Sonia Sotomayor Takes On the Criminal Justice System


White House Prohibits Cabinet From Addressing Democratic Convention


Drone Strike Statistics Answer Few Questions, and Raise Many

From a New President, New Justices

San Francisco Considers Tax on Tech Companies to Pay for Boom’s Downside

House Returns From Break to Resume a Fight Over Gun Control



Local

Tammany Hall’s Auditorium, Where Politics Once Took Center Stage, Will Be Demolished


Off-Duty Officer Fatally Shoots Man in Brooklyn Traffic Dispute

Man Injured in Central Park Explosion


In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve

New Jersey Savors Reprieve From Gas-Tax Increase, but Halt in Roadwork Looms


The Christian Science Monitor


What can be done for free trade's 'victims'

Calif. Gov. Brown signs gun control package: An emerging model for states?

Road trip America: a journey inside the mind of Millennials


Hillary Clinton and Benghazi look very different through lens of history

Opinion: A progressive tech platform for the 99 percent



The Star-Ledger

Donald Trump meets with possible V.P. picks in N.J.

On charter schools, Newark is no Detroit | Editorial


Will Christie reveal today which N.J. road projects will shut down?

'It's got to stop,' Plainfield residents remember those lost to gun violence

N.J. gets $4M to beef up security at houses of worship, nonprofits



Philly.com


Boy, 16, fatally shot at S. Philly holiday BBQ

The D.A. and the GOP part ways


Temple's law dean promoted to provost

Camden prosecutor: Never issued Collingswood school directive

Camden officials investigating 13 suspicious vacant rowhouse fires


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Avon mayor: Police followed protocol when they mistakenly arrested Emirati man (video)

New JFK high school and recreation center clear a key hurdle with land swap

Cleveland firefighters receive bulletproof vests: Union president says they're too little, too late

Cleveland police release surveillance video of Detroit-Shoreway shootout


Federal judges name new head of Cleveland's U.S. Probation Office


The Chicago Tribune


3 children among at least 60 shot over holiday weekend

With so many kids shot, what kind of city has Chicago become?


'Heroin is the drug du jour, but crack is still here, cocaine is still here'

EDITORIALS: Emanuel's property tax rebates? Costly gimmick. Thanks, but no thanks.

Fired Allstate employees awarded $27 million in defamation lawsuit


The Los Angeles Times


CHP officers shoot and kill driver in Fullerton during street racing investigation


Bosnian Muslims in Southern California may not fit the stereotype but they feel the prejudice

Glendale police hope to 'open up dialogue' with youth through Teen Academy


The Detroit Free Press


Flint's broken trust: 'I just can't continue living like this'

Detroit community benefits law could be on Nov. ballot

Uber driver aids a Detroit teen's college dream

Michigan woman fights for accessible websites in U.S. school districts

Stuffed animal found hanging in black family's backyard


The Washington Post


Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric rattles Clinton, unions

Will guns be a wedge issue in November?


A new chapter of the gun-control showdown coming to the House this week


Revisiting Clinton’s claim she used personal email out of ‘convenience’

Can Hillary Clinton overcome her trust problem?


Koch brothers group to wade into Colorado race amid worries GOP could lose the House

Here are two ways that Breyer’s wonky opinion in Whole Woman’s Health could transform abortion politics

Can Democrat Loretta Sanchez win over Republican voters in California?


How a Muslim advocacy group in Florida is doing what the government has so far failed to do


Schools around the country find lead in water, with no easy answers


When it comes to pretrial release, few other jurisdictions do it D.C.’s way

Judge who freed ‘Hurricane’ Carter now helping six imprisoned men, but only Obama can save them

D.C. public school program wants students to see the world — for free



USA Today


USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to 5 points

House returns to resume a bitter fight over gun control




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