Week In Review

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has presented U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) with its highest honor, the 2011 Louis E. Martin Great American Award, in recognition of his decades of exemplary service as…

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Visualize being miles away from your home and family and knowing that you will be surviving for the next couple of weeks with little or no money in your pockets and feeling imprisoned indoors due to a very rainy day.

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Opponents of education cuts proposed to help balance the state budget focused Tuesday on central Pennsylvania in trying to persuade lawmakers to restore funding for K-12 schools and public universities.

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The head of Orange County’s Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local GOP official to resign for sending an offensive email about President Obama. Marilyn Davenport spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday and said she considered the email depicting Obama as a chimpanzee political satire — not racism.

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Officials at Shaw University decided this week to end the semester early after a storm damaged buildings and displaced students on April 16. No injuries were reported, school officials say.

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President Barack Obama’s relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other.

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Barry Bonds stepped outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building for the first time as a convicted felon, and a school bus went by. The home-run king flashed a victory sign with two fingers.

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Manning Marable, an influential Columbia University scholar of African American history and culture whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died April 1, just days before the book described as his life’s work was released. He was 60.

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The NAACP has just announced an upcoming report that examines escalating levels of prison spending and its impact on state budgets and our nation’s children. “Misplaced Priorities: Under Educate, Over Incarcerate” uncovers a disturbing connection between high incarceration rates and poorly performing schools.

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A friend of slain radio and TV personality DJ Megatron told investigators Monday the two were chatting on the phone as the deejay went out to buy marijuana when the line went dead, likely because he’d been shot.

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