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Today in Black America - August 26

POSTED: August 26, 2014, 11:00 am

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Today in Black History: Pioneering artist and civil rights advocate Hale Woodruff was born in 1900 in Cairo, Illinois.

The New York Times

No Link Found for Deaths and Veterans’ Care Delays


Obama Plans More Measures to Improve Health Care for Veterans


Editorial: When Five-Star Care Is Substandard

Election Panel Enacts Policies by Not Acting


Technology Adviser Expected to Leave White House Post

Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges

Uncertainty for Workers Losing Jobs at Atlantic City Casinos


The Christian Science Monitor

Beyond Ferguson, police across US get low marks on fairness (+video)

Why this could be the year of the unhappy voter


Fort Lee shooter turns gun on self, but reasons behind rage unclear (+video)

Israel says no difference between Hamas and Islamic State: True? (+video)


The Star Ledger

Camden County hires private security to be police 'eyes and ears' for city

Atlantic City's Revel Casino to be reminbursed by armored car company

E. Orange man admits giving drugs to a lawyer to smuggle into Essex County jail

Trenton school board abruptly cancels meeting after another board member resigns

Complaints pile up against 'known racist' store owner in Swedesboro


Philly.com


Area day laborers get killed at higher rates

Teachers at Philly tech charter school ratify first-ever contract


The Detroit Free Press

Back to school: 5 tips to build a relationship with your child's teacher


Deadline is Friday to help Michigan hire board of education superintendent

Teachers protest pay cuts as state, DPS tries to find a way to avoid them

Judge lifts federal monitor's oversight of Detroit police


The Washington Post


Mark Pryor injects Ebola into the Arkansas Senate race

If the UK was a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, just ahead of Mississippi

In Calif., nearly half of workers don’t get paid sick days, analysis finds


Which states ranks the best and the worst for gender equity?


African Americans see less harmony with police -- and also with whites

Muriel Bowser opposes Gray’s new school boundaries plan

Designs unveiled for new Richmond Civil War museum


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Ohio families can receive up to $10,000 for child's medical expenses from UnitedHealthCare grants

Projects yield new jobs for Greater Cleveland; state awards tax credits as development incentives

Ohio's largest Head Start program won't release information about its operations: "Hey, Taxpayer!" with Mark Naymik


Cleveland Clinic to put $100 million into Akron General deal as minority owner


About 250 in Cuyahoga County have have registered for Ed FitzGerald's universal college savings account program


The Atlanta Journal Constitution


Federal charges filed against Elaine Boyer

DeKalb Commission remains 2 representatives down


The Los Angeles Times

LAUSD suspends iPad program; bidding process questioned

USC cornerback Josh Shaw injured rescuing his nephew

Ebola scare may keep West African wrestlers out of championships

New enforcement tool for L.A. 'quality of life' issues proposed



USA Today

Ebola has killed more than 120 health workers, WHO says








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