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GALVESTON, Texas—　A man who stole a car left idling on the seawall returned and chastised the owners after realizing a child was inside, authorities said.

Massachusetts (Gawker)– That was quick. Just hours after covertly-filmed video of a racist woman berating a mailman went viral, she’s been identified as Erika Winchester, speech coach and citizen police academy graduate. But did this incident really get the mail carrier fired?

Florida (TheGrio)– Two teenage store clerks took a gun away from a man attempting to rob their family’s Clearwater, Florida store Saturday night, then locked him in the business until police arrived.

(Atlanta-Atlanta Journal-Constitution) When Walter Broadnax took the helm of one of Atlanta’s historically black colleges — Clark Atlanta University — in 2002, the school, he said, was in financial trouble. So he set about laying off professors, shutting down some programs and increasing the tuition. At the time, those moves provoked widespread controversy on campus […]

New Jersey (TPMMuckraker)– The New Jersey teacher stung by James O’Keefe’s latest “investigation” is speaking out.

National (Time)– In a finding that surprised its authors, a new study revealed that vitamin D deficiency does not contribute to rates of fatal stroke in African Americans, even while it doubles the risk of death from stroke in whites. This, despite the fact that blacks are known to be more vulnerable to vitamin D […]

National (FortMyersPress)– The poorest minority homebuyers were hit harder by Lee County’s real estate crash than their white counterparts as they were pushed into ill-advised loans to fuel the boom’s building frenzy.

National (HuffPo)– “Black males continue to perform lower than their peers throughout the country on almost every indicator,” concludes a new report released by the Council of the Great City Schools titled, “A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools.” The Council declares the […]

New York (NYDailyNews)– An NYPD cop on his way home from work was killed Monday when his car was rammed by a boozed-up Brooklyn man driving the wrong way, authorities said. Officer Andre Menzies – a father of five – was driving east on the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills, L.I., about 12:05 a.m. […]

GULFPORT, Miss (NYT) — Federal and state officials and housing advocates announced on Monday the creation of a $133 million program to address housing problems that remain for poor Mississippi residents five years after Hurricane Katrina.