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 Gas prices rising every week | VIDEO Prices at the pump are soaring, especially in Chicago, where the average gallon of gasoline costs $3.82. Boy lying on tollway hit, killed A teenage boy is dead after he was struck by a vehicle while he was apparently lying on the pavement of the Jane Addams Tollway Sunday night near S. Elmhurst Rd. Hammond mom killed in hit-and-run crash | VIDEO Police are searching for a suspect after a hit-and-run accident killed a mother and injured four members of her family in Calumet City. Officer accidentally shoots himself during chase A Chicago police officer is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in the leg. Apparent arrest made in 2008 hit-and-run crash A hit-and-run driver reportedly turned himself in to the family of a woman who was struck and killed by a car in Joliet four years ago. Chicago street named after comedian Bernie Mac Bernie Mac is getting a Chicago street named after him in a posthumous honor from his hometown. MORE STORIESStrange News Consumer Healthbeat MOST POPULAR | Advertisement  TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK
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Black Male Teachers Are Becoming Extinct in America; Black Women Greatly Outnumber Black Men at HBCU's; New Jim Crow Social Justice Movement Heads to Nebraska; Only 4% of U.S. College Students Are Black Males
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"There are African American men all over the country with skills, and with passion, that can serve these boys in so many capacities that they don't even know," King says. "It makes a huge difference because [the students] are able to be comfortable with themselves, they're able to see what they'll become one day, and if those images are positive, it raises their self identity to another level."
Of Black males who make it to an HBCU, only 29 percent will graduate within six years, which is worse than the 33 percent national average of black males at all colleges. Nationally, the six-year graduation rate is 57 percent.
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National Memo: How Fragile Is Obama's Lead?
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The Big Story, By E.J. Dionne If the election were held right now, President Obama would likely win by about the same margin that propelled him into office in 2008. But how fragile are his current advantages? READ MORE | ||||||
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Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. Do you watch "Mad Men"? If so, you know that one of the things that drama about a 1960s advertising agency does best is transport you back to the days when women still were "gals." We think we remember what that was like. We use words like "sexist" and "paternalistic" to describe it. When Rick Santorum's Super PAC sugar daddy Foster Friess describes how things were "back in my days," it is worth remembering that those are the days he is referring to. READ MORE | ||||||
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GOP Primary Rick Santorum has begun to call out Ron Paul and Mitt Romney for their bizarre alliance in the Republican presidential primary as he seeks to unite the broad majority of his party that has rejected Romney's suspect politics for something more pure (and fiery). "We need to go out and say we don't need the Ron Paul faction and the moderate establishment teaming up to attack the real conservative in this race," he complained. READ MORE | ||||||
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Around The World The U.S. and its allies dismissed the Syrian regime's referendum on a new constitution Sunday as a "farce" meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent. But voters in government strongholds suggested why some Syrians have not joined the uprising against President Bashar Assad: Loyalty, distrust of the opposition, and fear his fall will ignite a civil war. READ MORE | ||||||
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My Front Pages, By Joe Conason Seeking applause from a right-wing audience in Michigan, Mitt Romney vowed on Saturday: "I will cut spending, I will cap spending and I will finally balance the budget," saying that he will end federal funding for all the usual Republican budgetary scapegoats -- the Public Broadcasting System, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But Romney must think the Tea Party "conservatives" he is courting are very stupid indeed, if he's promising to balance the federal budget by eliminating the miniscule amounts spent on the nation's cultural programs. As the former businessman and governor certainly knows, his numbers -- including the massive tax cuts and defense increases -- simply don't balance, ever. READ MORE | ||||||
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Pop Culture "The Artist" won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. READ MORE | ||||||
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