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Today in Black America - March 2

POSTED: March 02, 2015, 10:00 am

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Today in Black History: In Montgomery, AL 15 year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested for refusing to move from her seat for a white passenger on a city bus in 1955.


The New York Times


Justice Department to Fault Ferguson Police, Seeing Racial Bias in Traffic Stops

Netanyahu’s Visit Bringing Uninvited Problems for Jewish Democrats

Psychiatric Drug Overuse Is Cited by Federal Study

Wells Fargo Puts a Ceiling on Subprime Auto Loans

Martin O’Malley, in Veiled Jab at Hillary Clinton, Derides Politics of ‘Triangulation’

Before Justices Rule, Floridians Consider Life Without Health Subsidies

How an Adverse Supreme Court Ruling Would Send Obamacare Into a Tailspin


As Common Core Testing Is Ushered In, Parents and Students Opt Out


The Christian Science Monitor

Major Supreme Court challenge threatens to gut Obamacare (+video)

Pentagon push for women's equality gets murky at academies' doorsteps

Many girls in Africa and the Middle East are under pressure to leave school


The Star Ledger

The High Cost of Jersey: Why some of us are willing to pay for it, and some of us are not

6 times N.J. Republicans have refused to go against Christie vetoes of legislation they supported

Vineland ex-solicitor tapped as new chief public defender



Philly.com

AP EXPLAINS: Supreme Court case against Obama's health law


Green defies Gov. Wolf, now out as SRC chair

Lawyer: Police, witness disagree on shooting

Hopeworks program has helped Camden youth succeed for 15 years

Monday the day for controversial student testing in New Jersey


The Detroit Free Press

Snyder's focus: Boost reading by third grade

Treetops Resort: Fraternity damage could top $400,000

Tuskegee Airmen exhibit could land at Wright Museum


The Washington Post


GOP discord undercuts efforts to fund DHS

GOP infighting in Va. may harm the party’s White House bid in 2016

Tribes’ bet on high-interest lending comes with some uneasy feelings

Jeb Bush hopes his Florida record erases doubts of conservatives


Phil Robertson: STDs are the 'revenge of the hippies'

Phil Robertson’s warning about sexually transmitted diseases was more politically loaded than it seemed

D.C. cannot shy away from teaching boys about August Wilson, and anger

Will new curriculums save our schools? Not anytime soon.



The Los Angeles Times

LAPD seeks more video in fatal skid row shooting

Ex-interns defend City Council candidate accused of misusing nonprofit

In election with a bid to boost turnout, participation may be lacking



The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Cuyahoga Community College's top students courted by universities

Readers sound off after city says Tamir Rice's death was caused by his own actions

Nothing to celebrate in Statehouse's gun regulations bill: Jennifer Thorne, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence


USA Today


Deadly bacteria release sparks concern at Louisiana lab


Cellphone video captures LAPD fatal shooting


Exonerated La. man faces second death sentence: cancer


The Chicago Tribune

State budget would take bite out of major crimes task force

Fans of Minnie Minoso pay tribute to player, baseball ambassador

Unions spend big in Chicago City Council races









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