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Football great Emlen Tunnell, the first Black player inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame was born on this date in 1925 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Today in Black History: Poet, musician, lyricist and social activist Gil Scott Heron was born on this date in 1949.

The New York Times

As Views Shift on Guns, Reid Corrals Senate


Editorial: Using Medicaid Dollars for Private Insurance

Obama Pushes Plan to Build Roads and Bridges


More Diagnoses of A.D.H.D. in New C.D.C. Data


A Simple Way to Send Poor Kids to Top Colleges


Gunfire Claims 2nd Prosecutor in Texas County

On and Off the Debate Stage, Candidates Spar in the Mayoral Race

New Ads to Press Albany on Campaign Financing



The Christian Science Monitor

School suspensions: Does racial bias feed the school-to-prison pipeline?

Business, labor reach immigration deal on guest workers. Will it stand?

Gun control: Did Obama let the moment pass?

How high oil prices lead to financial collapse



The Star Ledger


Spike in aging prison inmates creates tax turmoil in N.J.


Trenton's Foundation Academy pulling ahead of public schools


Obama, mother of Chicago shooting victim team up for youth violence movement

Camden joins the fold, but does N.J. takeover of schools actually improve them?


The Detroit Free Press

Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy cuts start to affect suburbs


Meningitis outbreak hit Michigan hardest: 259 infected, 14 killed

John Carlisle: Once homeless, one local barber offers free haircuts to help poor improve their lives

Poll: Support for right-to-work law evenly divided in Michigan


The Atlanta Journal Constitution

No rush by DeKalb board members to regain jobs

Charters face cuts after dispute with school district

From scandal at APS to suspicious scores nationwide

Reaction to the indictments

Atlanta schools defendants must turn selves in by Tuesday

'The art of war' at Atlanta Public Schools


The Washington Post


How one federal agency beat the sequester

Slain district attorney had armed himself


Hopkins’s Ben Carson apologizes for ‘choice of words’ on gay marriage

Epithets against Latinos, gays hamper Republicans’ outreach efforts

Top prosecutor returns to court

Elwin Wilson, reformed racist who apologized for his past, dies at 76


The Los Angeles Times

U.S. budget cuts will mostly spare Calif. economy

A mayor's full-court press to keep basketball

Healthcare divides GOP and many Latinos

Gov. Jerry Brown issues 65 pardons over Easter weekend

Engineers, conservationists work on lasting fix for Watts Towers


The Chicago Tribune

Victim of attack by teens on CTA train: 'It was terrifying'

28 teens charged in 2 downtown attacks

Hadiya Pendleton's family putting final touches on foundation

141 counts in girl's slaying


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Minister recounts Easter Sunday shooting outside his Ashtabula church; one dead

Activists push Kent State to invest in African studies program



USA Today

Report: Man shot after Ohio church’s Easter service

Study: Sexual activity is rare among young adolescents







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