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Today in Black America - October 21

POSTED: October 21, 2009, 12:00 am

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The New York Times

Volcker Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy

Doctors Told to Give Flu Medicine Promptly

In Shift, Cancer Society Has Concerns on Screenings
 
Obama Takes a Health Care Hiatus
 
In Schools Post, Thompson Was a Conciliator

Shot Kills Woman, 92, in Her Home
 
The New Untouchables
 


Baltimore Sun

Slots accord may cut taxes

City principals say they're spending less time on improving quality of teaching

Police test gunfire-detection system



The Christian Science Monitor

Death penalty is too expensive for states, study finds

Who will rein in healthcare costs? Don’t look to Congress.

Obama stakes Democrats to first fundraising lead since 2004

Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai asks region to rein in Mugabe



Detroit Free Press

Some city union contracts nixed

Kilpatrick's books to stay sealed

Pugh eyes council despite looming foreclosure



Atlanta Journal Constitution

Jenelsie Walden Holloway, 89, advocate for African-American art

Candidates struggle for solutions to city's $750 million challenge

Atlanta's new officers may not hit streets for months



The Washington Post

This is the bust in the boomtown that banks built

U.S. deeply split on troop increase for Afghan war

Liberals increase pressure for public insurance plan in health bill

D.C. teacher contract talks still stuck

On the sidelines, the sad symbol of a sorry tradition



Los Angeles Times

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jack Nelson dies at 80; journalist helped raise L.A. Times to national prominence

Swine flu is 'a disease of the young'

Woman charged with murder, attempted murder in sons' shootings

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