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Today in Black America - August 11

POSTED: August 11, 2014, 11:00 am

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 Today in Black History: Pioneering journalist Carl Rowan, who served in the Kennedy administration, was born in 1925 in Ravencroft, Tennessee.

The New York Times


U.S. Actions in Iraq Fueled Rise of a Rebel

In Gaza, Growing Weary of a War and Hoping for Change

Editorial: Controlling the Ebola Epidemic

Blow: Intervening in Our Name

Op-Ed: Sentencing, by the Numbers

Protests Follow Shooting of a Teenager in St. Louis

Nigeria Struggles to Cope With Outbreak

Midterms Give Parties Chance for Control of States

Task Force of Mayors Addresses Income Gap


In Chokehold Case, Staten Island District Attorney Faces Big Test


The Christian Science Monitor


Unarmed black teenager shot: Is #MikeBrown the next Trayvon Martin?

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio walks thin blue line in chokehold aftermath (+video)

A switch in time: How Nixon might have survived Watergate (+video)


Uganda offers lessons on how West Africa can contain Ebola outbreak


The Star Ledger

Bamboozled: Ex-con promises to pay bills, but steals money instead, customers say

5 clues Chris Christie is running for president

In Newark, a campaign to restore Military Park monuments


Philly.com

White students no longer the majority

A rare bright spot for Philly schools

Temple prof shocks students by resigning


The Detroit Free Press

As student debt soars, income-based program helps avoid defaults

Mason man says he's innocent of ethnic intimidation attack on Muslim woman


Nancy Kaffer: When did Michigan stop caring about its schools?


THEN & NOW: Watch Detroit change before your very eyes


The Washington Post

GOP takeover of Senate looking more and more likely

The number of states controlled by one party is the highest in a half-century


The FCC could start posting more information about political ads online


Ebola experimental treatment only for the exceptional

Go home kids: Baltimore launches strict curfew for youths

Vanity Fair poll: Was slavery or treatment of American Indians the biggest ‘misjudgment’

SketchFactor, the allegedly racist app, is on top of suspicious squirrel activity

County’s Virtual High School sees record enrollment


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Mortgage delinquencies fall to seven-year low in U.S. but rise in Ohio

Vigil for man shot by police in Missouri deteriorates into unrest, looting

Ohio's out-of-power Democrats need to emulate '80s GOP in the grass-roots grunt work that can turn the political tide: Thomas Suddes


The Chicago Tribune

Emanuel heads to NYC to talk minimum wage, education

Obamacare law funds studies on better health care

Quinn dumps Democratic state fair rally for second year in row

Clarence Page: 'War on whites'? No way



The Los Angeles Times

Looting, vandalism follow vigil for dead teenager

Social media react: Rioting, looting over Missouri teen's shooting


State legislation could put more minorities in local offices

'Poor doors' development proposal draws scorn in West Hollywood

Editorial: It's time for California to eliminate the crack-coke sentencing disparity


The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Atlanta schools cheating trial begins today

Federal judge arrested in Atlanta; accused of assaulting wife







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