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Today in Black America - December 1

POSTED: December 01, 2015, 6:30 am

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Today in Black History: In 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparking a boycott that changed history.

The New York Times

National

Four Charged in Shooting of Minneapolis Protesters


Jury Selection in Freddie Gray Death Offers Look at Life in Baltimore

Edfitorial: The Children Left Behind After Mass Shootings

Op-Ed: Cover-Up in Chicago

‘Love’ and Disbelief After Trump Meets With Black Leaders

Breaking Out (Special: The California Sunday Magazine)

Clinton Email Is Released After Security Concern Is Dismissed

Hillary Clinton Unveils $275 Billion Infrastructure Investment Plan

Syrian Family of 7 Is Settled in New Jersey Against Christie’s Opposition


Making It Harder to Prove White-Collar Crimes


Local

Ex-Assembly Speaker Is Convicted of Corruption

Reformers in Albany May be Spurred by Silver Verdict

Nonprofits, Aiming for Relevance, Try On New Names


The Star Ledger


Federal transportation funding cut could jeopardize tunnel project, say Menendez, Sires

Is the shaming finally over for Rutgers athletics? | Editorial

Christie: Patrick Hobbs will 'straighten out' Rutgers athletics

Booker, Menendez: Keep tax credit that helps N.J.'s working poor



The Christian Science Monitor


Chris Christie's N.H. coup: How endorsements shape voters' choices

Why climate change isn't a winning issue in US politics

More than 1,000 racism complaints at US colleges. What happened? (+video)

Chicago Black Friday protests test power of new civil rights movement


Philly.com


What's next for Black Lives Matter in Philly?

Jail for Gosnell's son in bizarre burglary

Cheyney University lands on probation


Ex-Philly school official claims retaliation over book on schools


Mayor-elect Kenney begins meeting constituents


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Cleveland's lead program plagued by cuts for a decade; city vows to get program on track: Toxic Neglect

Tamir Rice's mother testifies before grand jury, her lawyer says

Bill to aid homeless vets outlined by Sen. Sherrod Brown


Cleveland Heights pastor Darrell Scott connects Donald Trump with other black ministers

Cleveland schools may be gaining students, not losing them by the thousands


The Detroit Free Press


Detroit seeks $50M from vendors paid before bankruptcy

Ford invests $1.3B, adds 2,000 jobs at Kentucky plant

Ron Scott, Detroit activist, dies at 68

Mayor: Detroit police officers to get 4% pay raises


The Chicago Sun-Times


Cop charged in Laquan McDonald case bonds out of jail

1 in 5 African-Americans say they've been treated unfairly by police in past month

Chicago Teachers Union plans strike vote on Dec. 9: report


The Los Angeles Times


9th Circuit says L.A. broke the law when it cut housing subsidies for the poor

Critics want more urgency from L.A. leaders on the homelessness crisis

Ex-L.A. County sheriff's deputies sentenced to prison for beating of jail visitor


The Washington Post


Why many high-stakes testing foes see ‘modest’ progress in No Child Left Behind rewrite

How schools would be judged under ‘Every Student Succeeds,’ the new No Child Left Behind

Man arrested for threatening to kill ‘white devils’ at the University of Chicago

For Clinton, one glaring holdout among female Democratic senators

The black clergy endorsements for Trump that never came


Fear, faith and the rise of Ben Carson

First trial in death of Freddie Gray begins in a city still on edge

Murals of pain, anger and hope in Freddie Gray’s Baltimore neighborhood

A quarter of D.C. students ‘on track’ for college, PARCC test results show

Just 4 percent of special education students in the District considered proficient on new PARCC tests


USA Today

U.S. Marine found guilty of killing transgender Filipino

1 dead in Atlanta police shooting near hotel










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