The Latest: 14-year-old boy charged in school shooting
The Latest on a school shooting in South Carolina (all times local): 12:15 p.m. A 14-year-old South Carolina boy accused of killing his father and wounding three people during a…
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Officials: Firefighter halted teen who killed father, shot 3
By KATE BRUMBACK and JAY REEVES A volunteer firefighter stopped a teenager who shot three people outside a South Carolina elementary school after killing his father at their home, authorities…
Investing Towards The Education and Future in Young African American Adults
Investing Towards The Education and Future in Young African American Adults.Young African American Adults are seeing the plights taking place in the black neighborhoods among unarmed men and women. We…
Key findings from USC’s latest diversity study
By The Associated Press A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism…
Georgetown to give slave descendants priority for admission
By BEN NUCKOLS and COLLIN BINKLEY Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone…
2 Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Wade’s cousin
Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school,…
DIVIDED AMERICA: Town and country offer differing realities
From where Peggy Sheahan stands, deep in rural Colorado, the last eight years were abysmal. Otero County, where Sheahan lives, is steadily losing population. Middle-class jobs vanished years ago as…
DIVIDED AMERICA: Minorities missing in many legislatures
By DAVID A. LIEB As Virginia’s only Latino state lawmaker, Alfonso Lopez made it his first order of business to push for a law granting in-state college tuition to immigrants…