Today in Black History: Social worker and National Urban League leader Lester Granger was born in 1896 in Newport News, Va. and raised in Newark, New Jersey.
The New York Times
National
‘You Can’t Code Your Way Out of Racism’
Hollywood, Separate and Unequal
Cleveland Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Shot Will Be Moved to Chicago
Editorial: The Shoot-Me State
A Museum for All Americans
Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party
How Close Is It? Closer Than Before
Trump Still Declines to Say Obama Was Born in the U.S.
Privately Run Mississippi Prison, Called a Scene of Horror, Is Shut Down
California Moves to Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Buy Insurance
Arizona Limits Police Actions in Enforcing Immigration Law
Donald Trump Vows to Create 25 Million Jobs Over Next Decade
Senate Approves Funding for Flint Water Crisis
Local
A 93-Year Journey From a Former Slave’s Lap to the Electoral College
New York Public Schools Have Safest Year on Record
Connecticut to Appeal Decision in Schools Funding Case
The Christian Science Monitor
Patriotic ferment: California teen's grades docked over Pledge of Allegiance
Trump's and Clinton’s favorable ratings are awful. Here’s why.
Why Clinton eyes GOP-led North Carolina: It's more purple than it looks
Why Americans' trust in the media is at an all-time low
US teacher shortage: how to keep teachers from quitting
The Star-Ledger
What N.J. women earn compared to men revealed by the Census for first tme
More than 90 percent of N.J. residents have health insurance (MAP)
Fastest growing field in medicine is physician assistant
Guardian Angels to keep watch at Paterson back-to-school nights, report says
Christie: 'My patience has run out' with N.J.'s urban 'failure factories'
Bill putting armed, retired cops in N.J. schools passed by Senate
Philly.com
U.S. House races in Pa. highlight lack of women candidates
SRC delays vote on closing charters
T-shirt memorial symbolizes toll of South Jersey gun violence
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Residents offer input on proposed Cleveland police use-of-force policy
Ohio incomes increase, poverty decreases, Census Bureau reports
Akron must give notice before removing homeless people's belongings, settlement says
Columbus police chief: Boy's BB gun 'practically identical' to police weapon
The Chicago Tribune
In 4 years, majority of children in Illinois will be minorities
Is state Sen. Kwame Raoul considering run for mayor?
Timothy Evans withstands challenge to win sixth term as chief judge
Willie Wilson bails out inmates charged with misdemeanors in bid for reform
The Detroit Free Press
U.S. Senate passes bill with $100 million for Flint
New poll shows Clinton and Trump nearly tied in Michigan
Detroit teachers: Newly ratified deal just the start of fixing schools
Exclusive: Obama administration to launch new effort on heroin crisis
The Washington Post
The deeply troubling federal report targeting religious freedom
This woman got [expletive] mad at a school board meeting. Then she got called into court.
Brain cancer replaces leukemia as the leading cause of cancer deaths in kids
Columbus police officer fatally shoots Tyre King, 13-year-old with a BB gun
African Americans worry Trump has awoken a resentment that won’t go away
Public-interest groups are calling on Education Dept. to track racial disparities in student lending
David Axelrod’s ‘dirty filter‘ theory about Hillary Clinton and the media
Hillary Clinton regrets her Iraq vote. But opting for intervention was a pattern.
Trump bullish as poll numbers rise, won’t say Obama was born in United States
Woman in ‘demon assassin’ case found criminally insane in her children’s deaths
At D.C.’s Anacostia High School, police department builds a foundation
The Los Angeles Times
Anger and passion drive the debate over more overtime pay for California farmworkers
L.A. charter City High School is about to close, and is rushing to find many of its 116 students new schools
USA Today
Exclusive: Obama administration to launch new effort on heroin crisis
For Obama, a shift in clemency strategy
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