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Today in Black America - August 3

POSTED: August 03, 2017, 11:30 am

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Today in Black History: The U.S. Senate overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of legislation imposing economic sanctions against South Africa in 1986.

The New York Times

National

Trump Supports Plan to Sharply Reduce Legal Immigration


Harvard Admissions Quotas Hurt Asian- Americans, Suit Says

Asian-Americans’ Complaint Prompted Justice Dept. Inquiry

As Allies Stray, Trump Keeps Those on the Right Close

Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War


EDITORIAL: Capitol Shocker

Those Calls to Trump? White House Admits They Didn’t Happen


With Rare Unanimity, Senate Sends G.I. Bill Expansion to Trump


Local

Fishkill Prison Guards Will Not Face Charges in ’15 Death of an Inmate


Shooting of Emotionally Disturbed Man Puts Focus on New Training

Uneasy Welcome as Ultra-Orthodox Jews Extend Beyond New York


Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Is Charged With Murder



Philly.com

Philly to post civilian complaints against police

'Superheroes' gathering to honor Philly's shot kids


Trump affirmative-action move raises concern for colleges



The Star-Ledger


2 men confessed to murder. Their DNA tells another story.


Maplewood seeks to replace top cop over controversial arrests

Here's what people turned in at N.J.'s biggest ever gun buyback


Kushner firm reportedly subpoenaed over Jersey City project

Don't let developers off the hook, Baraka says in support of the anti-gentrification law



The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Girl possibly abducted in Cleveland, police say


Cleveland Police Chief Calvin D. Williams to speak at Akron Roundtable luncheon Aug. 17


Defendant says prison calls directing Cleveland woman to abduct, rape children were 'role play'

Cleveland Metroparks will no longer enforce free speech policies for individuals circulating petitions


Bill would allow Ohio elected officials to carry guns in the Statehouse, other government buildings


The Chicago Tribune

Executive, escort suspected of spending $5.8 million on company credit card

Mayor Emanuel to reappoint Lightfoot as president of police discipline board

A broken blade and blood everywhere: Details emerge as Northwestern professor is sought in stabbing

DAHLEEN GLANTON: In Chicago, young children are lucky to survive a shooting


The Detroit Free Press


'Detroit' film leaves a disturbing feeling of grief, nothing to celebrate

Ex-MSU basketball star Keith Appling: 'I let a lot of people down'


Man dies after road shooting in Detroit's east side

Detroit's Randolph Career and Tech Center to become flagship in skilled trades training



The Washington Post


Trump urged Mexican president to end his defiance on border wall, transcript reveals

Could Trump’s presidency lead to a readjustment of power in Washington?

Stephen Miller vs. Jim Acosta sent the daily briefing totally off the rails


He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he and his brother have been deported.


Christians are more than twice as likely to blame a person’s poverty on lack of effort

Perspective: Don’t use Asian Americans to justify anti-affirmative action politics

‘Cheap slaves’: Trump, immigration and the ugly history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

‘This really opened my eyes up’: Hundreds of D.C. students study abroad for free

Maryland panel to monitor health-care overhaul efforts meets for first time

Gov. Larry Hogan sued by ACLU for deleting comments, blocking Facebook users

The chronically homeless need more than just housing. They need social lives.


USA Today

'It's not a boycott:' NAACP warns the nation about traveling in Missouri




















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