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Today in Black America - July 2

POSTED: July 02, 2015, 9:00 am

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Today in Black History: NAACP attorney and Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve on the Supreme Court, is born in 1908 in Baltimore
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The New York Times

Local


Malcolm Smith, Ex-New York Senate Majority Leader, Is Sentenced to 7 Years in Bribery Case

New York’s Rent Freeze May Change How Tenants Decide on Lease Duration

New York Democrats Join Mayor de Blasio in a Chorus of Dissent Against Governor Cuomo

‘Nothing Left to Lose’: How Mayor de Blasio Came to Call Out Governor Cuomo

Fewer New York City Students Must Go to School This Summer

New York Comptroller Faults Payment System in 39 City Agencies


National

Today in Politics: A Backlash Costs Donald Trump, and Possibly Republicans

Macy’s Drops Donald Trump’s Fashion Line Over Immigrant Remarks

Hillary Clinton, Loudly and Proudly, Taps Into a Vein of Support Among Gay Voters

Announcing Cuba Embassy Deal, Obama Declares ‘New Chapter’

Report Concludes Police Shooting Victim in Washington State Probably Had a Rock

A Call to Revise How Chicago Funds Teacher Pensions



Philly.com

Philly NAACP confab lands Obama

Jurors side with cops in unlawful-arrest case

A resignation among personnel moves at Philly school district

SAT snafu worries scholarship-seeking teen

Lawyer's solution to Philly's poor tax collection


The Christian Science Monitor

How Supreme Court ruling could jump-start political innovation

Same-sex marriage: Will conservative religious colleges lose tax-exempt status?

As South Carolina mulls furling flag, pro-Confederate protests grow (+video)


Chicago implements $10 minimum wage. Other cities aim for $15 by 2020.



The Washington Post

As Donald Trump surges in polls, Democrats cheer

Before church shooting, Dylann Roof went on tour of slavery and racism

Actor protests, tweets photo of Roof after TV Land pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’


Researcher who faked HIV vaccine results receives rare prison sentence

Gerrymandering didn’t make politics this vicious. But vicious politics will soon make gerrymandering so much worse.

Hispanic business group commends Macy's for ending ties with Trump

White support for the Confederate flag really is about racism, not Southern heritage

Former Moco Council member Valerie Ervin announces for Congress


D.C.’s Bowser hails increase in city minimum wage to $11.50 per hour


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Discrimination against gays still legal in Ohio

Ohio picks AIR to replace just-ousted PARCC for Common Core tests


Forming a more perfect union: Editorial Board Roundtable

Ohio tests group prenatal care model to combat infant mortality



The Detroit Free Press

Ex-DMC chief dies under police guard in Panama

Michigan Senate passes increase in gas tax

Detroit council rejects proposed water rate hike

Church leaders: Stop 'summer of killing' in Detroit


The Chicago Tribune


Preckwinkle defends quick tax hike push

CPS set for $200 million in cuts; mayor floats property tax plan


Former Illinois treasurer employees sue over firings

Judges opposed to gay marriage refusing to issue any licenses


The Los Angeles Times


U.S. economy adds 223,000 jobs in June

Wages shrink for state's middle-income workers

New L.A. school board members are sworn in, but old challenges remain

Attack on Chinese teen puts new focus on 'parachute kids' in California

L.A. councilman takes rare step in bid to expedite proposed gun-lock law


USA Today


Lost, stolen, broken: TSA pays millions for bag claims, USA TODAY investigation finds







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