Today in Black History: Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, pioneer, established what would become the city of Chicago on this date in 1773.
The New York Times
Opinion: We Have a President for a Reason
Shots Threaten to Reopen a Well of Unrest in Ferguson
Early in 2016 Race, Clinton’s Toughest Foe Appears to Be the News Media
Key Chicago Figure, Despite a Plea by Obama, Gives a Lift to Emanuel’s Rival
Secret Service Agents Said to Have Driven Into Police Investigation Before Crash
F.C.C. Sets Net Neutrality Rules
Cuomo’s Rule on Purging State Email Roils Albany
De Blasio Names 3 to Rent Board as Annual Fight on Increases Nears
16-Year-Old Arrested After Fight at a Brooklyn McDonald’s
The Christian Science Monitor
Police shootings in Ferguson raise stakes in city's efforts to clean house (+video)
US retail sales fall 0.6 percent as winter worries linger (+video)
The Star Ledger
City unengaged when dealing with student's death, Newark schools say
Trenton police recruit kicked out of academy for cheating starts training with new class
State should have better handled PARCC rollout, N.J. Senate committee says
Rutgers professors will get raises, added financial protections under new contract deal
New rules for investigations of N.J. police debated as Ferguson rages
The Washington Post
Secret Service agents disrupted bomb probe
Why Ferguson marches even though police chief is gone
Some Republican senators caught off guard by backlash to Iran letter
Robinson: Frat boys and racism’s long shadow
An 11-year-old reported being raped twice, wound up with a conviction
D.C. educational system to cut staff at central office, hire 200 at schools
Former chair of Pr. George’s liquor board won’t yield to Hogan pick
The Detroit Free Press
Gun rights tested at Madison Heights, Ann Arbor schools
Snyder yanks school reform office from Dept. of Education
Nine solutions to fix Ferguson
Detroit councilman remorseful on his way to jail
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Three takeaways from Cuyahoga County prosecutor's deadly use of force event
Philly.com
Masturbating SEPTA cop convicted
Former day-care-center operator sentenced in boy's drowning death
Judge: SEPTA buses can be plastered with Hitler's mug
'It hit home, and it hit home hard'
The Chicago Tribune
PARCC testing launches with some pushback, confusion
Rev. Willie T. Barrow, activist and civil rights icon, dies at 90
The Los Angeles Times
In Ferguson, a night of political theater, protest and peace
Public schools see windfall after $1-million lotto prize goes unclaimed
OU black frat president says racist SAE chant unfairly tars school
Family and friends hold vigil for man gunned down near his home
USA Today
Holder: Ferguson shooter 'disgusting,' 'punk'
Big costs to see public documents hinder access
Cost-related FOI issues, solutions in 18 states
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