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HOUSTON – Black leaders called Tuesday for indictments against eight police officers accused of beating a teenage burglary suspect in an incident caught on surveillance video.

From the Washington Post: For doctors such as Pradeep Chopra, long accustomed to prescribing carefully tested medications by the exact milligram, medical marijuana presents a particular conundrum.

From S2SMagazine.com: Steve Harvey held a black-tie affair last night in New York to support young men.

From STLToday.com: KETTERING, Ohio — Bilal Momin watched as one family member after another succumbed to a genetic and degenerative kidney disease. In 2006, Momin, the associate minister of Freedom-Hill Baptist Church in Dayton, thought he was next.

NEW ORLEANS – BP PLC has managed to cap one of three leaks at a deepwater oil well, but the work was not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

From the NY Times: Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many man-made environmental disasters that this country has produced in its history.

NEW YORK — The oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has drained $32 billion from BP’s stock market value. Lawsuits, fines, cleanup and reputation-repair are certain to cost the company billions more and could tie up BP for many years to come.