Today in Black History: Edward W. Brooke, III, the first Black to serve in the U.S. Senate in the 20th century, is born in 1919 in Washington, D.C.
The New York Times
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The Christian Science Monitor
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The Star Ledger
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Philly.com
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The Detroit Free Press
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State Sen. Virgil Smith's trial pushed back to March
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Testing in schools is "beyond reason," urban educators find, and should be cut back
The Chicago Sun-Times
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Nailah Franklin's accused killer goes on trial 8 years after her death
The Los Angeles Times
Girl, 13, shot in head while watching TV in grandmother's West Sacramento home
Fair offers students of color a better shot at prep school dreams
Mayor's return to church where protesters disrupted him is scuttled
Black Lives Matter defends this week's protest of L.A. Mayor Garcetti
The Washington Post
Prosecutors’ racially coded jury notes at center of Supreme Court case
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The big paradox of criminal justice in America
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Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools
Leader of the Empowering Males of Color program is leaving D.C. schools
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At 12, he pushed for a rec center in D.C. and got a photo with the mayor. He was fatally shot seven years later.
USA Today
Ole Miss removes state flag with Confederate symbol
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