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Today in Black America - April 19

POSTED: April 19, 2016, 6:30 am

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Today in Black History: Black students take over Willard Straight Hall on the campus of Cornell University to protest racism at the school on this date in 1969.

The New York Times

National


Supreme Court Sharply Divided on Obama Plan for Immigrants

Pressure on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to Shine at Home

Bernie Sanders Gets the Celebrity Treatment in Midtown Manhattan


As Donald Trump Speaks, Some Voters Hear Echoes of Ed Koch


Top Donald Trump Campaign Aide Quits in Shakeup


Donald Trump Tries to Show Support of Blacks at a Chaotic Gathering

Potential G.O.P. Convention Fight Puts Older Hands in Sudden Demand

Michigan Governor to Drink Flint Tap Water for a Month


Panel Would Make Insurers Help Contain Rising Drug Costs


Local


Cuomo and de Blasio Campaign Hard for Hillary Clinton Despite Complex Ties


Ex-Inmate Describes Rikers Beating as ‘Open Season’ for Guards on Trial


Zika Virus Campaign Planned by New York City


New York City Council to Review 5 Bills Reining In ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes

Harold Wood, Westchester County Legislator and Justice, Dies at 96


The Christian Science Monitor


For millions of immigrants, future hinges on Supreme Court


Is Donald Trump actually getting ready to lose?

Saudi Arabia: Obama's foreign policy conundrum


In a changing US Army, turbans and hijabs allowed



The Star-Ledger

N.J. hospital fined again for failing to produce financial records

How's it looking for Trump in N.J.'s suddenly critical Republican primary?

Ex-Kean student admits sending Twitter threats aimed at black students

Prieto: No N.J. estate tax cut without transportation funding fix


Are N.J.'s top lawmakers closer to an Atlantic City compromise?



Philly.com

Hillary, the Panama Papers, and the death of American kleptocracy

Green goes to court to regain post as SRC chair

Principals announced for four city turnaround schools

City settles Occupy Phila. suit for $200,000


Pennsylvania's new prison is as big as the Comcast Center



The Washington Post


Trump’s national field director quits amid major staff changes

Clinton and Trump hope N.Y. primary cements their front-runner status

As bitter N.Y. primary draws close, Sanders accuses Clinton of campaign finance violations

Trump meets with ‘diversity coalition’ in New York


Student’s racist video spreads online, draws concern at elite private school

Duke leaders call for repeal of North Carolina’s ‘bathroom law’ on discrimination

Washington College gives graduating seniors a parting gift: Debt reduction


4 times innocent people were escorted off airplanes


Texas, Arizona high schools dominate new U.S. News rankings

District 8 Democrats get one last chance to jab at one another

Rep. Elijah Cummings endorses Will Jawando in Md. congressional primary


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Don't undercut historical resonance of 'Black Lives Matter' by calling it 'All Lives Matter': Ronald E. Santoni (Opinion)

Complaints about IRS imposters double in March, Ohio attorney general says


Accused serial killer was the neighborhood 'weed man' who dealt marijuana, neighbors say

Death of Canton firefighter on Ohio 8 ruled suicide


The Detroit Free Press


DPS to open Montessori school, plans no school closings for 2016-17

After Flint, DEQ drinking water official takes new job


Snyder: At work, at home, I'll drink Flint water

Elevated lead, copper readings detected at six Grosse Pointe schools

Big Michigan road construction holdups on tap for 2016



The Chicago Tribune


Democratic lawmakers dismiss comptroller's get-in-line paycheck move

Emanuel's Lucas Museum plan relies on $1.2 billion in borrowing, a lot of help from state

Chicago schools need to borrow more, CEO Forrest Claypool says

Laura Liu, Illinois' first Asian-American appellate judge, dies

Clinton continues to fumble the transcript issue



The Los Angeles Times

Has the war on drugs failed? U.N. session will examine alternatives

Lawmakers seek to tighten bullet train oversight, suggesting growing concern about the project


Would-be independents joining the American Independent Party could blame California's voter registration card


UC president calls for stronger steps in faculty sexual harassment cases

Case against 3 who ran fake police force collapses; phony chief dies



USA Today


Police: N.C. teacher traveled to Va. for sex with former student, 13

U.S. will send 217 more troops to Iraq to help fight ISIL

Rainbow-colored nooses on campus 'disturbing'

Tennessee set to sue federal government over refugee resettlement









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