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Could Big Data Reduce the Prison Population?

Urban News Service - February 9, 2016

Technology Could Prove As Important As Legislation Eric Easte Better use of technology and data could help solve the problem of mass incarceration. That's one conclusion that...

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Urban Prep Academy Turns Boys into Scholars in Chicago’s Roughest Neighborhoods

Urban News Service - February 9, 2016

by Curtis Bunn CHICAGO — In some of Chicago’s lowest income neighborhoods, African-American teenage boys are overcoming their challenging surroundings. They are the young men...

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Artist: Will Miss 10th Post-Katrina Mardi Gras

Urban News Service - February 4, 2016

By Eric Easter Jennifer Renee Johnson desperately misses New Orleans during Mardi Gras. But the New Orleans she misses, she says, no longer exists. Johnson is...

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Drexel’s ‘Healing Hurt People’ Program Helps Young Victims Recover from Emergency Room Trauma

Urban News Service - February 4, 2016

By Curtis Bunn Sobering facts: For every black youth murdered in Philadelphia, 90 others experience grave injuries, including gunshot and stabbing wounds. Each year, more...

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Black Republicans Back Trump as Democratic Mayors Unveil Urban Agenda

Urban News Service - January 27, 2016

By Michael H. Cottman Days before the Iowa caucuses, the nation's largest association of black Republicans is endorsing Donald Trump, a candidate with little history of working...

IN MEMORIAM: O.J. Simpson, an Iconic Athlete, Dies at 76

Orlando Commissioner Permanently Barred from Contact With Alleged Elderly Victim

UN underscores commitment to stay and deliver in Myanmar

Gaza: Resuming night-time aid deliveries, UN reports ‘dire’ conditions

Temporary Channel Opens as Authorities Strive to Clear Key Bridge Wreckage

Biden Woos Haley Voters and Salutes Transgender People

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: New MSCS Superintendent Dr. Marie Feagins Makes New Friends on Day 1

OP-ED:Embracing Black Men’s Voices

COMMENTARY: D.C. Crime Bill Fails to Address Root Causes of Violence and Incarceration

Quinn Minute: School recess was the best

‘Black Opry Revue’ Throws the Covers Off of Black Country Music

IN MEMORIAM: The Burton Wire — Interview Louis Gossett Jr.

OP-ED: Why the Biden campaign should invest in the Black Press

UK’s newly passed ‘Safety in Rwanda’ bill is anything but safe: UN officials

Airlines urged not to facilitate UK-Rwanda asylum transfers

Transform landmark Indigenous rights declaration into reality: UN General Assembly President

UN leaders call for more action to end racism and discrimination

COMMENTARY: D.C. Crime Bill Fails to Address Root Causes of Violence and Incarceration

Mayor, City Council President React to May 31 Closing of Birmingham-Southern College

From Raids to Revelations: The Dark Turn in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Saga

Baltimore’s Key Bridge Struck by Ship, Collapses into Water

Climate change threatens global forest carbon sequestration, study finds

Independent Women’s Forum Establishes National Energy Appreciation Day

Removing invasive caimans from Florida Everglades

‘Terrifying’: Tuesday Was Hottest Day Ever, Breaking Record Set Just 24 Hours Earlier

The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) Will Hurt African American and Other Minority Owned Newspapers

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: New MSCS Superintendent Dr. Marie Feagins Makes New Friends on Day 1

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