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Civil rights pioneer Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was born on this date in 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Today in Black America - January 18

POSTED: January 18, 2017, 8:00 am

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Today in Black History: Rep. William L. Dawson (D-IL) is elected chair of House Expenditures Committee in 1949.

The New York Times


National

Obama to Free Manning, Jailed for a Vast Leak of U.S. Secrets

National Security Council Sees Rocky Transition


Reince Priebus Emerges as Potential Tamer of Trump

Education Pick Seeks to End ‘One Size Fits All’ System


DeVos Endorses 'Choice' in Education


Trump Lashes Out at Foes, and Approval Polls That Follow

Angst Simmers in Washington as Trump Presidency Nears

Who Decides Who Counts as Native American?


Commerce Pick Wilbur Ross to Divest at Least 80 Holdings


Local


White Officer Who Killed Ramarley Graham Is Cast as Unfit, and as ‘Hero’

Cuomo Takes a New Approach in Unveiling His 2017 State Budget Proposal

Cuomo and Trump to Meet About ‘Issues of Importance to New York’

Paul J. Massey Jr. Takes Lead in New York’s Mayoral Fund-Raising Race


The Christian Science Monitor

Arizona ethnic studies bill and what it means to be American

Income inequality: The good, the bad, and how to tackle it


Trump isn't the first president to distrust US intelligence

THE MONITOR'S VIEW: Breaking the fall of trust in institutions


The Star-Ledger


Passaic settles cop's sex discrimination suit for $1.2M, report says

Another N.J. lawmaker skipping Donald Trump's presidential inauguration

3 more N.J. prisoners granted clemency by President Obama


Ex-foes Christie Whitman and Jim Florio team up with this message for 2017 candidates


N.J. Supreme Court awards trooper $500K in State Police discrimination suit


Philly.com


GOP prescription of minority outreach forgotten with Trump

Armstrong: Rev. Herb Lusk, an ex-Eagle, says conservative blacks are being intimidated by liberal ones


DA Williams fined $62,000 for ethics violations

8 Penn State students charged in riots so unruly, police had to use pepper spray


The Detroit Free Press


Warren Mayor Jim Fouts balks at calls to quit over alleged comments

Region's top political leaders rebuke Mayor Jim Fouts


Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State 'light on Flint'

Highlights from Snyder's State of the State speech

Bill Schuette splits with Rick Snyder over Flint water deliveries



The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Ohio's 33 wrongfully convicted prisoners who served 10 years or more


Cuyahoga County prosecutor, top judge pledge to end years of discord: Justice For All (video)

Mike DeWine, Ohio join 12 other states in suit against federal government

Cleveland-area contractor sentenced to prison for paying workers criminally low wages

University of Akron hires chief diversity officer


The Chicago Tribune


Obama commutes sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, member of Puerto Rican militant group

Ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy subpoenaed in Jackson Jr. divorce case

EDITORIALS: What's behind Chicago's surge in violence?

List of Illinois Democrats skipping Trump inauguration grows



The Washington Post


Trump’s education pick lauded as bold reformer, called unfit for job


Former D.C. Mayor Tony Williams endorses Betsy DeVos


Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, soldier in WikiLeaks case

Why are no senators boycotting the inauguration? National ambition is part of it.

Pressure mounts on GOP for post-Obamacare plan following CBO report


Black Secret Service agents agree to $24 million settlement in a decades-old race bias case

A mayor denies it’s his voice on tapes calling blacks ‘chimps’ and n-word. His colleagues say ‘resign.’

Obama climbs to 60 percent approval in final presidential approval rating, Post-ABC poll finds


Congress is considering an extremely dangerous idea almost nobody has heard of

These presidents all said they were going to change America. How’d that work out?


Businesses pledge to help Women's March participants

Montgomery County Council passes $15 minimum wage for most businesses



The Los Angeles Times

Repealing Obamacare without replacement would hike premiums 20% and leave 18 million uninsured, report says

Jury convicts LAPD officer of destroying evidence and sending 'harmful' messages to teen

Just how much money has Donald Trump's secretary of Education choice given to Republicans?

Black Americans reflect on eight years with Obama: The pride, the triumphs and the missed opportunities


USA Today


President Obama pardons Willie McCovey for tax evasion


Nikki Haley could face questions about human rights abuses at Senate hearing

Taggart apologizes for hospitalized players, suspends coach




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