Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, left, announces the resignation of Chief of Police Greg Suhr while standing beside the new acting Chief Toney Chaplin at City Hall in San Francisco, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. San Francisco’s police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot…

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By Zenitha Prince Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and the University of Pennsylvania’s Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy recently released a study examining trends in higher education based on family income, race/ethnicity, and family socioeconomic status….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  George Zimmerman (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI –George Zimmerman says he’s vetting bids after closing an auction for the pistol he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during an altercation. The former neighborhood watch volunteer , who was acquitted in the 2012 slaying , says on…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Shutterstock.com ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS–A rope burn a 12-year-old black Waco girl received around her neck during an overnight school campout has left the girl’s mother asking if her daughter was victimized by racially motivated bullying by sixth-grade classmates. Sandy Rougely has retained a lawyer to press a personal injury claim against Live Oak…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) By Maggie Michael, Elena Becatoros  and Angela Charlton ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after swerving wildly in flight, authorities said, and Egypt said it may have been a terrorist attack. There were…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to delivered a commencement address at Rutgers graduation ceremonies Sunday, May 15, 2016 in Piscataway, N.J. President Obama delivered a commencement address at Rutgers University.    (AP Photo/Mel Evans) By Josh Lederman associated press PISCATAWAY, N.J.  — President Barack Obama on last Sunday urged college graduates…

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ABOVE PHOTO: At left Daisia Sulton, 17 and Mikayla Mosley, 15 Bridgeton High School students who were killed after their car swerved into a tree after returning from an after prom. (Photo: bilbaoya.com) Associated Press MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A teenage driver lost control of her car and struck a tree, killing her and…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Amy Joyner-Francis  (Photo: Facebook) By Randall Chase ASSOCIATED PRESS DOVER, Del. -Three teenage girls have been charged in a high school restroom assault in Delaware that left a 16-year-old girl dead, authorities said Monday. The Delaware attorney general’s office announced the charges after meeting earlier in the day with the mother and older…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama (Frederic Legrand-COMEO / shutterstock.com ) By Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than a decade ago, a judge bemoaned that the life sentence she was about to impose on Charles C. Brown was overly harsh. This week, relief finally came to Brown, along with 57 other offenders. President Barack Obama commuted…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bryshere Gray Two-mile walk will feature performances by local entertainers, Diversity Expo, kids’ zone, food truck and headline performance by Philadelphia’s own Yazz The Greatest (Empire) The Anti-Defamation League, the nation’s premier civil rights and human relations agency, will be holding the 2016 Walk Against Hate; Sunday, May 15 at 9:00 AM to…

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