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Today in Black America - July 14

POSTED: July 14, 2015, 7:30 am

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Today in Black History: The George Washington Carver National Monument is dedicated in 1943 in Diamond, Missouri in honor of the famous scientist
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The New York Times

National

Obama Commutes Sentences for 46 Drug Offenders

Historic Nuclear Deal Reached With Iran

Obama’s Bet on Deal Will Take Years (if Ever) to Pay Off

Scott Walker Enters 2016 Presidential Race, Pledging Conservative Agenda

What Scott Walker Would Need to Do to Win

Scott Walker on the Issues

Hillary Clinton to Release the Names of Her Top Fund-Raisers

How Much Money Presidential Candidates Have Raised So Far


Local

Eric Garner Case Is Settled by New York City for $5.9 Million

CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic

New York City Public Housing Has Pileup of Repairs, Comptroller’s Audit Finds


Sheldon Silver’s Son-in-Law Pleads Guilty in Ponzi Scheme Case


The Christian Science Monitor

US Evangelicals ponder their role, now that gay marriage is law of the land

Scott Walker 2016: rock star or villain?


The Star Ledger

Fact checking Christie on Donald Trump


Christie asks Obama for $15 million in disaster relief for South Jersey storm clean up

Court reverses civil rights violation rulings against N.J. sheriff's officers


Christie and Walker, now 2016 Republican rivals, have a long history


The Los Angeles Times

Police shouldn't keep money, cars when suspects aren't charged, lawmakers say

Syphilis cases increasing in California women and newborns

Details emerge about inmate shackled without food

Brown signs bill barring fines for dead lawns during drought


The Chicago Tribune

Chicago Public Schools' budgets spend $500 million district doesn't have

Illinois state workers' paychecks to go out as court fight continues

Taste of Chicago attendance sluggish


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Ohio's Common Core math and English tests will be cut to 3 hours each

Ohio's not totally done with PARCC as this year's tests are graded

Cleveland joins Let's Move! Outside youth initiative

South Russell circus cancelled over threats of gun violence


The Washington Post

National

Obama’s calling for sentencing reform. Will it happen?

Walker seeks to rally GOP on a pledge of victory with no compromise

Jindal’s false claim that Louisiana families will see a ‘tax cut’ through a new program

The mainstream response to Donald Trump affirms Latino political power

Boy Scouts executive committee endorses ending ban on gay leaders

Sanders and O’Malley slam Trump


Local


The homeless man who graduated Harvard Law with John Roberts

Ivey bests his fundraising numbers with $275,000 in the second quarter

Md. Dems ask Obama to reconsider denial of aid for Baltimore riot recovery


Philly.com

Philly struggles to hire black officers

Longtime KYW announcer Vince Hill is laid off

Temple sees payoff from making ACT, SAT optional

Byko: U.S. history book a story skewed

Fight the Obama-inspired 'backlash,' DNC chair tells NAACP


The Detroit Free Press

To cut prison costs, reform sentencing and parole


Debate resumes on fixing crumbling Michigan roads

Detroit man's drug sentence among 46 commuted by Obama

































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