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Today in Black America - December 5

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Today in Black History: The National Council of Negro Women is founded in 1935 by famed educator Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.

The New York Times

Editorial: The President on Inequality

Obama Presses Case for Health Law and Wage Increase

Democrats’ Latest Campaign for Health Care Law Begins


Treasury Chief to Declare Big Gains in Financial Reform


Poll Finds Young People Souring on Health Law and Obama


Hagel Details 20% Cut in Personnel Who Report to Him

Poor Black and Hispanic Men Are the Face of H.I.V.

Student Debt Load Found to Vary by College and State


Professors in Deal to Design Online Lessons for A.P. Classes


For Top Deputy, de Blasio Picks Government Veteran


The Christian Science Monitor

Teachers union chief offers four steps to boost US results on PISA test

Detroit bankruptcy: Creditors eye city’s art, but museum vows a fight

Poll: Millennials turn on Obama, don't like Obamacare, either

Why Obamacare will never enroll all Americans (+video)


Malawi's embattled Banda says huge scandal is 'opportunity'


The Star Ledger


Police investigate alleged sex assault of Seton Hall softball player -- possibly caught on video

Chris Christie leaves for Oklahoma Thursday, raising ire of Democrats and gay rights activists


Online gambling issues persist into second week of web betting in N.J.


Christie sitting on federal grant funds given to help explain Obamacare, critics say

Mt. Laurel mortgage firm agrees to $6.35 million settlement over alleged foreclosure abuses



The Detroit Free Press

Survey: Snyder approval rating up to 35.6%, highest level since summer 2012

Detroit Chapter 9 bankruptcy sends warning to other cities, bondholders


Detroit's employee pension systems file appeal of Detroit bankruptcy ruling

MEA defends itself in teachers' anti-union complaint: Time frame for leaving is clear, it says


Bert Johnson throws hat in the ring for 14th District congressional seat race in 2014



Philly.com

GUEST POST: Glenn Beck's worst nightmare comes to Camden


And let the job offers begin for a Philly hero


Phila. Art Commission approves Joe Frazier statue



The Washington Post

NSA collects 5 billion records a day on cellphones

Young people have bailed on Obama. Here’s why that’s a problem for him.

Obama focuses on economic inequality

Does the minimum wage affect jobs?

How attitudes toward AIDS have changed, in the White House and beyond

Wal-Mart opens first two stores in D.C.

D.C. birthing center for low income struggles to attract poor clients

First Knights of the transfer game


Brown announces backing by county council leaders


The Chicago Tribune


Preckwinkle won't back felons

Downstate prosecutor cited for 'appeal to racial prejudice'

Pension deal to test legal prep work

Lucas gives $25 million to After School Matters


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Nina Turner and Eric Kearney step down from Senate leadership posts to focus on statewide campaigns

Kent State University unveils See You @College to encourage first-generation high school students to attend college

Cleveland dad shot Monday picking up children from East Side school still in critical condition

Having more college graduates is critical to Northeast Ohio's economic prosperity, University of Akron president says


If Obamacare is overturned, a Case Western law professor gets the credit



The Los Angeles Times

California economy continues uneven recovery, UCLA says


Assembly speaker shuffles committee assignments, names new chairs

Rep. Janice Hahn calls on state GOP to take down 'fake' Obamacare site

Fourth meningitis case has UC Santa Barbara students on edge


The Atlanta Journal Constitution

CAU reactivates Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society


HOPE bill would restore funds for technical college students



USA Today

The global epidemic we can’t afford to forget

A deadly parasite moving north

Diseases on the move because of climate change


Study: States that reject Medicaid expansion lose money














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