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Today in Black America - November 25

POSTED: November 25, 2013, 7:30 am

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Today in Black America: Chicago Tribune newspaper publisher John Sengstacke was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912.

The New York Times

Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations


In Report, 63% Back Way to Get Citizenship

Kerry Defends Nuclear Pact With Iran

Israeli Leaders Denounce Geneva Accord

Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash

McKinsey & Company Report on the Health Care Law and the Website

Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter a City

Signs of Change in News Mission at Bloomberg



The Christian Science Monitor

Africa to world's top court: Stop picking on our leaders

Washington blows up: Has American politics hit an all-time low? (+video)

Obama must convince many Democrats as well as Republicans on Iran nuclear deal (+video)

Most Americans back Obama on Iran nuclear deal – for now, anyway (+video)

A Sudanese 'Lost Boy' saved by the kindness of strangers


The Star Ledger

Newark teen shooting victim recalled as 'good dude' who tried to shield girlfriend from gunfire

Jersey City implementing 'Beat the Streets' hoop program

The Auditor: Conservative senator's vote could give Christie cover on immigrant tuition bill


'No-confidence' vote stirs controversy around Montclair police chief; town may hire police director

Eminent domain to fight foreclosures is divisive


The Detroit Free Press

Grosse Pointe Park police to undergo sensitivity training to deal with mentally ill people


Program allows DPS kids, reading tutors to connect via Internet

10 revealing exchanges: How Judge Rhodes is conducting Detroit's bankruptcy

As poverty spreads and funding is cut, charities need metro Detroiters' help

Civil rights leader Imad Hamad retires in the face of sex harassment, assault allegations



Philly.com

Philadelphia could make history with land bank plan

Fund manager bleeds Fumo dry

University City program gives new life to shuttered buildings


NJ preps for Tuesday's online gambling debut



The Washington Post

Crucial health-law test awaits IRS

The abysmal success of the federal health-care exchange


In 16 states, unemployment is at its lowest in at least four years


Meningitis victims hope for criminal charges

Eliminating the filibuster would matter less than you think

Md. test exclusion rate raises questions


Getting into nation’s biggest college readiness program


D.C. mayor proposes $10-an-hour minimum wage

Pr. George’s executive promotes “Buy Suitland” campaign


The Chicago Tribune

Political season begins with candidate filings

UIC makes a bid for Obama presidential library and museum


Turning young Chicagoans into readers



The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Sixteen-year-old killed on Cleveland's East Side


Federal prosecutor: Toledo felon stashed guns, ammunition for what he hoped would be a race war


Ohio's prison suicide rate is at a six-year high, statistics show

Ohio lawmakers join in push for national convention on balanced-budget amendment


Transgender Day of Remembrance has deeper meaning in Cleveland this year



The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Atlanta-based immigrant actor given reprieve from deportation

Councilwoman Cleta Winslow to pay $2,000 ethics fine


The Los Angeles Times

Area ecomony benefits from L.A. Unified's local food push

Rulings on jail terms inconsistent after changes to three-strikes law


Gov. Jerry Brown's not saying whether he'll seek fourth term


Wanda Coleman dies at 67; Watts native, L.A.'s unofficial poet laureate

California lawmakers want BB guns made in bright colors

NAACP seeks harsher charges in San Jose racial hazing case


USA Today

Secrecy still shrouds Sandy Hook investigation





















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