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Today in Black America - August 30

POSTED: August 30, 2017, 11:30 am

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Today in Black History: Journalist and civil rights leader, Roy Wilkins, who served as the executive director of the NAACP, was born in 1901 in St. Paul, MN.

Continuing coverage of tropical storm Harvey in the Houston Chronicle

The New York Times

National

A Boom in Confederate Monuments, on Private Land

Editorial: Making Sure Your Help Gets to Hurricane Harvey’s Victims


Relentless Storm Makes Second Landfall, in Louisiana


Blue-Collar Volunteers, Rushing to the Rescue in Boats

Toll on Energy Industry Exposes a Vulnerability


Despite Reassurances, Immigrants Fear Being Arrested

Pleas in Port Arthur: ‘Our Whole City Is Underwater’


Trump Tax Plan May Free Corporate Dollars. Then What?

Fight for Senate Complicated by ‘Trump Republicans’

Day Trading in Wall Street’s Complex ‘Fear Gauge’ Proliferates


Local


They Have a Say Over the Subways, From Hundreds of Miles Away


To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding



Philly.com


'I'm not racist. . . . My grandkids are biracial'

In charged climate, Philly teachers learn how to keep immigrant students safe


The Star-Ledger


Town's only female cop details years of sexual harassment in lawsuit

This is scary: NJ Transit compliance chief fired after saying it's not safe | Editorial

Allegations against 7 cops put criminal cases on hold, report says

6 cops could face discipline for raiding home without warrant, report says


Major developer: Why we're betting big on Newark now | Opinion


The Chicago Tribune


Senate advances landmark school funding bill; Rauner to sign measure Thursday


Emanuel defends CPS property tax increase

Son giving kidney to top cop Eddie Johnson: 'You want something done right, you do it yourself'

EDITORIALS: At last, the path to a consent decree on Chicago policing


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Election has become a referendum on Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's performance, panel says


More than 40 percent of college grads owe at least $20,000 in student loans, report says

Family of man killed by Euclid police officer 'angry and disappointed;' chief calls for peace

Brother of Akron teen who died in police custody 'just wants the truth'

Former Cuyahoga County Jail inmate sues, says staff ignored severe withdrawal symptoms



The Detroit Free Press


Push is on to sell, develop former DeHoCo prison site in Plymouth


Here are Michigan's top SAT scoring high schools

Family of Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard wants statue, but ownership at issue

Rochelle Riley to host radio talk show on 910AM


Keegan-Michael Key defends Detroit: 'It's not the wild, wild West'


The Washington Post

Storm makes landfall in a state once left reeling by Katrina

Disaster relief agencies ready to help Harvey victims, but they can’t get in

‘He could hear the kids screaming’: Six family members swept away trying to flee Harvey

Even in visiting ravaged Texas, Trump keeps the focus on himself

Trump and Harvey: 'There was something missing' from what the president said

Kremlin says it got the Trump Tower email but didn’t respond

Less ‘resistance’ from Democrats up for reelection next year in states Trump won

With his tax effort in peril, Trump to pressure Congress for swift action

‘We don’t pretend this is over’: After Charlottesville, colleges expect trouble

Gillespie hires Trump operative who believes country is on verge of civil war


Hogan promises ‘truth in sentencing’ measure for repeat violent offenders


Redskins name and logo barred by Green Acres School in North Bethesda, Md.

Firm hired to probe graduation rates in Prince George’s County schools


The Los Angeles Times


Why it's harder for African American women to report campus sexual assaults, even at mostly black schools


The fight over what to call Columbus Day in L.A. is about two very different politicians

The fight against syphilis takes county health teams through fences, under bridges, into homes

Laura Weinrib: The ACLU's free speech stance should be about social justice, not longstanding precedent


USA Today


Harvey to be costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, with an estimated cost of $160 billion

She went from paycheck to paycheck to starting her own business






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