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Today in Black America - July 30

POSTED: July 30, 2013, 6:30 am

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Today in Black History: Law professor Anita Hill, who courageously testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, was born in 1956 in Lone Tree, OK.

The New York Times

Obama Reassures Leaders on Enforcing Voting Rights

A Bet on Clinton: If They Network, She Will Run


Editorial: Choosing the Next Fed Leader

Senate Backs F.B.I. Chief and Considers Other Picks

Sinclair Group Is Buying 7 Allbritton TV Stations

F.B.I. Charges 159 Men With Forcing Teenage Girls Into Prostitution


Thompson and de Blasio Vie for Opening as Quinn Rises


The Christian Science Monitor

How Trayvon Martin case could tip New York mayor's race


Views on abortion in US: regional differences grow wider


The Star Ledger

Largest sex-trafficking bust in U.S. history nets 70 N.J. arrests

Jersey City Mayor Fulop pushes ordinances to merge police and fire departments

Newark teens charged with robbery after shootout with corrections officer

Booker cancels planned Iowa speech

Bergen County NAACP holding 'Justice for Trayvon' vigil in Hackensack



The Detroit Free Press


Child sex trafficking bust rescues 10 youths, arrests 18 pimps in metro Detroit

Detroit, St. Clair Shores police sergeants accused in gas station robbery, assault

State appeals court bows out of Detroit bankruptcy case

Ex-Detroit City Council aide expected to plead guilty in pension fund case

Kwame Kilpatrick makes pitch for new trial, blames lawyer for guilty verdict


The Washington Post

FBI job screenings raise concern about racial bias

Holder sees defense of civil rights as legacy

Rev. Sharpton meets with Obama on voting rights

EPA official’s report links fracking to damaged drinking water in Pa.

McDonnell’s private lawyers bill the state $54,000 in embezzlement case


The Chicago Tribune


Girl, 4, shot along with man in Marquette Park neighborhood

Wheeling police officer dies unexpectedly

Teens charged after mall guard is pepper-sprayed

Officials: New Trier ACT scores dispel myth of kids lost in the middle


The Atlanta Journal Constitution

8 arrested here in child sex trafficking crackdown

Indicted CEO Ellis wants all charges dismissed


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Former Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee to get $5.8 million in retirement


Tea Party questions Sen. Rob Portman's commitment to kill Obamacare


Number of cancer cases higher near factories, refineries that release benzene, study finds


Cuyahoga Community College's free online developmental math course open to all


The Los Angeles Times


L.A. County literacy initiative reaches juvenile offenders

Commission to begin sweeping reform effort in child welfare

Celebrities join prison hunger strikers in protesting isolation



USA Today

Study: Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 U.S. cities

Masses of plastic particles found in Great Lakes

AGING IN AMERICA


Philly.com

Newly created firm owned home that exploded

District partially restores school staff thanks to $33 million in new funding

Nutter aide: Put focus on racial crime












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