By: Becky Vevea Article Reprint Chicago Public Schools officials told 550 teachers and 600 more school staff Thursday that they’re out of a job.
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Evictions are as bad for Black women as prison is for Black men
In Milwaukee, Black women are only 9.6% of the population, but 30% of the evictions BY MATTHEW DESMOND Article Submission Patrice is, in many ways, typical. A low-income woman, she’s struggling to find affordable housing
Read moreFirst female black student-president at nation’s most expensive prep school is forced to resign after ‘offensive’ photographs of her mocking ‘typical white classmates’ emerge online
Maya Peterson was Lawrenceville School’s first black, female student body president By James King Article Reprint The former black student body president at a pricey New Jersey prep school was forced to resign from her
Read moreCould Drones Finally Expose One Of The Country’s Most Secretive Industries?
By Tara Culp-Ressler Article Reprint Are aerial drones the answer we need to a wave of state laws seeking to criminalize efforts to expose health hazards and inhumane practices on corporate farms? One animal rights
Read moreObama to seek $2B for border control
mprnews.org Article Reprint President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas and ask for new
Read moreFederal judge upholds Colorado gun laws, dismisses lawsuit
DENVER (Reuters) – A federal judge upheld gun laws on Thursday introduced by Colorado in the wake of deadly shooting rampages there and in Connecticut, dismissing a lawsuit brought by sheriffs, gun shops, outfitters and
Read moreCity Hall Rapper Fixes Potholes, Kills Rats and Geeks Out on Infrastructure
By Mark Konkol Article Reprint [CHICAGO THE LOOP] — The most important person at City Hall is an opera-singing rapper — and, thank goodness, it’s not Mayor Emanuel.
Read moreCentral Park Five Settlement: Would you sit in Jail for a Million Dollars a Year?
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Last Thursday an settlement was reached in the wrongful conviction case of five men accused of raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. Forty million dollars was rewarded to the
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