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Today in Black America - February 8

POSTED: February 08, 2016, 6:30 am

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Today in Black History: Three S.C. State College students were killed while protesting a segregated bowling alley in the "Orangeburg Massacre" in 1968.

The New York Times


National

Editorial: The Republicans in New Hampshire, Angry and Afraid

Bill Clinton Unleashes a Stinging Attack on Sanders

Blow: Hillary Has ‘Half a Dream’


Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders

Marco Rubio Comes Back Swinging After Difficult Debate


Obama’s Lofty Plans on Gun Violence Amount to Little Action


Chicago Officer, Citing Emotional Trauma, Sues Estate of Teenager He Fatally Shot


In Flint, Hillary Clinton Prods Congress and Calls Response to Crisis ‘Immoral’


Local


Rikers Officer Is Accused of Having Sex With an Inmate


The Christian Science Monitor

Republican debate: Why Rubio is bigger target than Trump

Why Sanders vs. Clinton is not a rerun of 2008


The first Black Lives Matter mayor?


Progress in the global war on poverty


The Star-Ledger

Christie hints he may go after Trump soon

Man targeted Newark churches, businesses during burglary spree, police say


Which counties in N.J. have the highest, lowest property taxes?

PARCC 2015 results: 5 things we learned about Essex County schools


Philly.com

Deaths at Philly hospital raise questions

Editorial: Poor funding not schools' only problem

Mediation could help 'Porngate' justice avoid public trial

Why a cyber charter had to close its doors


The Chicago Sun-Times


BGA: CPS and DCFS failed Laquan McDonald

City to expand full-day pre-kindergarten program

2 aldermen jump on TIF pain train to help CPS


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Communities hit hard by heroin epidemic trying new approaches to get users into treatment

Making validly cast absentee ballots count in Ohio: editorial



The Detroit Free Press

Water woes could sink Flint's property values even more

Rare slavery document to go on display in Lansing

DEQ: Marathon refinery already allowed to hike pollution

'Walking man' settles into new life, friends, waist size


The Washington Post


Clinton looks to sisterhood, but votes may go to Sanders


Why won’t Clinton release the transcripts of those paid speeches?

As the going gets tough, Christie’s campaign rhetoric gets rougher


With economy improving, Obama wages war of words with GOP doomsayers

Hope — and clean water — remains elusive for the people of Flint

Paying criminals to stay out of trouble? D.C. could be next city to try experiment.


New WSSC chief got job despite history of incidents with the utility’s vehicles

Lynch touts hate-crime prosecutions: ‘This country should be a safe place . . . for all who seek freedom’

Hogan agrees to $15 million subsidy for Pr. George’s hospital system


The Los Angeles Times

California issued 605,000 new driver's licenses for immigrants in the U.S. illegally last year

City Atty. Mike Feuer, turf rebate recipient, steers clear of DWP records lawsuit

How California can entice young people back to teaching


Cities want to raise the minimum wage. But it's complicated.

Documents ex-L.A. councilman sought to destroy are made public by successor


USA Today


Bill Clinton seeks one more New Hampshire comeback

Civil rights advance man recalls tales from front lines











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