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Today in Black America - December 21

POSTED: December 21, 2016, 7:00 am

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Today in Black History: Prolific Negro League baseball home run king Josh Gibson, who never got the opportunity to play in Major League baseball, is born in 1911
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The New York Times

National


Documents Reveal F.B.I. Reasoning in Clinton Case


Obama Restricts Drilling Off Atlantic and Arctic Seaboards

Can Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Work?

2 Flint Ex-Emergency Managers Charged Over Tainted Water

Obama’s 78 Pardons and 153 Commutations Extend Record of Mercy

Access to Donald Trump, for $500,000: Pitfalls for Presidents’ Families

Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic

Trump Slaps Back at Bill Clinton and Links Three Attacks to Terrorism



Local


Retired Westchester Officer Charged With Killing 4 in Hudson Valley Bar

Ride-Hailing Gains Prominence for Any Special Session in Albany



The Christian Science Monitor


With floods rising, cities enlist nature to tame the risks

Gardendale, Ala. wants its own schools. A return to segregation?


To figure out his tweets, understand Trump

THE MONITOR'S VIEW: Finding alternatives to solitary confinement


The Star-Ledger


N.J. superintendent slammed for Sandy Hook massacre reference, report says

Man grabbed hijab from woman's head in 'hate crime,' Newark mayor says


NCAA report: 6 most damning accusations against Rutgers football

Report finds 'staggering racial disparities' in which N.J. kids land behind bars

Millions coming to Camden to help build 'cradle-to-career' pipeline

Camden homicide count climbs following fatal shooting



The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Dredging shut down until spring in Cuyahoga River shipping channel; Army Corps of Engineers says law doesn't compel it to dredge

RTA facing $30 million budget shortfall as uncertainty looms at the state level


Ohio lawmaker calls for payday loan lender reforms


Plan to wipe out school levies is "bothersome," school funding advocate Bill Phillis says



The Detroit Free Press


New Flint charges: Who's responsible when government fails?

New criminal charges in Flint water crisis: Who they are


How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you — and don't blame Coleman Young

Wayne County looks to ink sale of 'gateway' building



Philly.com


Ex-Philly prosecutor suspended for revenge plot against lover

2 Philly judges removed from bench for ethics violations

Drexel study: Blacks nearly three times as likely as whites to be killed by police


Byko: State prisons have a color bias

Byko: When it comes to mail, state prisons have a color bias


The Chicago Tribune

Eight surgeries, but 'still here': The story of a boy touched by Chicago violence

EDITORIALS: Firing Speaker Madigan: Legislators, oust him now or doom Illinois to 2 more years of dysfunction

Illinois loses more residents in 2016 than any other state

State program that brought 1,000 Amazon jobs to Chicago area set to expire because of budget impasse

Outcry at Loyola after students learn athlete accused of rape was enrolled for three years



The Washington Post

Berlin attack typical of ISIS strategy to divide Muslims from others


Senate Democrats plan to run Trump playbook against Rex Tillerson

Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe


A black doctor barred from helping on a flight gets an apology — and triggers a policy change

Walmart to stop selling ‘Bulletproof’ shirts after police union protests

Texas sheriff found dead in home amid investigation into possible training violations


Lawsuit accuses Education Department of reversing course on student loan forgiveness

Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis

Antwan Wilson confirmed as chancellor of D.C. Public Schools

D.C. Council votes for expansive paid family and medical leave for private-sector workers.



The Los Angeles Times


Millions more Americans able to afford doctor's visit under Obamacare, study shows

The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries

Death penalty in steep decline, but not in Los Angeles County


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