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Today in Black America - February 24

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Today in Black History: A.M.E. Bishop Daniel Payne, first Black president of a Black college (Wilberforce), is born on this date in 1811 in Charleston, SC.

The New York Times

National


Bannon Urges Unity Amid Concerns Over Trump Agenda

EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Big Tent or Circus Tent?


Fact-Checking Claims About Trump’s Travel Ban


An Alarmed Base Prods Democrats Into an All-Out War

Education Secretary Is Publicly Polite, but a Political Fighter

How Much Can the U.S. Economy Grow?

Justice Department Keeps For-Profit Prisons, Scrapping an Obama Plan

Trump Vowed to Protect the Safety Net. What if His Appointees Disagree?


The Big Question for the U.S. Economy: How Much Room Is There to Grow?

Trump Turns to Manufacturing Executives to Help Develop Jobs Plans


Citing Racist Testimony, Justices Call for New Sentencing in Texas Death Penalty Case



Local


Subway Ridership Declines in New York. Is Uber to Blame?


An Anti-Black Slur on an Interracial Couple’s Garage Stirs Tension in Connecticut

Mayor de Blasio Will Meet With Federal Prosecutors on Friday

Law-Abiding but Illegal, and Fearing the New Trump Rules


The Christian Science Monitor

The logistical case for Trump's deportation plan – and the legal case against it (+video)

CPAC dismisses Richard Spencer: How conservatives are severing alt-right ties (+video)


Jeanette Epps set to become first African-American astronaut on ISS Expedition crew

Behind raucous town halls, a return to messy roots of democracy?


The Star-Ledger


N.J. education groups to Christie: Your new school funding plan would cause chaos

N.J. cops who shot man won't face civil rights charges

Fulop critics cry hypocrisy over double-dipping city attorney


N.J. congressman holds low-key 'telephone town hall'

Safety checks in Newark are not part of immigrant crackdown, cops say


Proposing a Trump Test for Guadagno and Piscopo | Editorial



Philly.com


Kenney on state senator's claim about city students: 'It's racism'

After subway derailment, Council to hold hearing on SEPTA safety


For DA candidate, one step forward, one step back on tax debt

Philly courts bar cellphones, hoping to curb witness intimidation

Covering towns without local police costs Pa. troopers $600M a year, commissioner says


Accused of being anti-business, Council looks to deregulate


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Proposed limits for medical marijuana supply in Ohio among strictest


Two East Cleveland men cleared in 1995 homicide sue city, prosecutors over two decades in prison

Cleveland Public Power resumes charging hidden fee, despite promise to wait until class action case concludes

Ohio cities could stop paying prevailing wage to construction workers under proposed bill

LeBron's Hard Work Club offers more than 300 Akron students after-school help


Halt Ohio's ESSA plan until state testing is cut, 150 angry educators, officials tell state



The Chicago Tribune


Chicago homicide victim identified as second transgender woman killed in 6 months

Pregnant woman among 7 killed in Chicago's deadliest day this year


Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say

Hate crimes rising since Trump's election, activists tell AG Lisa Madigan


Immigrant children who cross border alone find themselves in Chicago shelters

Hundreds of protesters urge Bobby Rush, other Illinois Democrats to fight harder against Trump


The Detroit Free Press


Mayor Duggan: Kevyn Orr hid pension plan details; city may sue firm


Questions & answers on Detroit's pension problem


State pushes back time line for school closures


New Detroit partnership aims kids at skilled trades


Michigan tax cut talk in tatters after defeat in House



The Los Angeles Times


Political spending of AIDS nonprofit comes under fire

Can the Calif. Republican Party bounce back in 2018? Here's the chairman's game plan


Protesters seek out California's Republican members of Congress at their homes


Santa Cruz and federal agents in war of words over whether a gang sweep was really a secret immigration raid

Hugging employees may create a hostile work environment, appeals court rules


The Washington Post


‘We literally live and die by insurance’: Cancer patients fear GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act

At town hall, conservative lawmaker calls on Trump to release tax returns

Bannon vows a daily battle for the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’


Alt-right leader expelled from CPAC after organizer denounces ‘sinister organization’

GOP lawmaker who won’t hold town hall invokes Giffords shooting. She responds: ‘Face your constituents.’


Justice Dept. plans ‘greater enforcement’ of federal laws against marijuana, Spicer says

Law professors file misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway

‘Get out of my country,’ Kansan reportedly yelled before shooting 2 men from India, killing one


U.S. agents searching domestic flight for undocumented immigrant ask passengers for IDs before deplaning


How racial bias could be hurting Silicon Valley’s bottom line

With a flying leap, a black activist tried to take down a Confederate flag in Charleston, S.C.

Mayor names Peter Newsham as District’s police chief

Botswana’s interracial love story: On American movie screens and inside its U.S. embassy

Bill to stop Md. municipalities from raising minimum wage will die in committee

Virginia dedicates state office building in honor of civil rights pioneer



USA Today


FBI refused White House request to refute story on Trump-Russia link

NAACP to announce details of N.C. boycott regarding 'bathroom bill'










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