2015/5/11-When Baltimore State’s Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, she said they had ignored Gray’s pleas for medical care during his arrest and a 45-minute transport van ride. Records obtained by The Baltimore Sun show that city …..
2015/05/10 – On June 20, it will be three years since Mississippi’s last execution. On that date in 2012, Gary Carl Simmons Jr., a former grocery store butcher, was executed for dismembering a man during a 1996 attack in which he …..
2015/5/9-The Harlem Children’s Zone is a nonprofit known for its innovative, multifaceted approach to ending the cycle to poverty. It’s garnered kudos from President Obama and philanthropists like William Louis-Dreyfus, who recently announced he would donate up to $50 million to the …..
2015/05/08 – The Mississippi Department of Education on Friday released statewide results of the third-grade reading assessment, showing how many students from each school face retention due to the state’s new Literacy-Based Promotion Act. See the results for each elementary school below. …..
2015/5/11-This weekend, the Class of 2015 graduated from Howard University, a historically black college located about a mile from NPR’s headquarters. The new graduates include two of the students who have spent the last semester talking with NPR’sWeekend Edition about their …..
