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​NAACP Members Arrested For Protesting Trump’s Racist Attorney General Pick (VIDEO)

Hyundai to create 400 jobs at Shreveport plant

A subsidiary company of Hyundai will eventually create 400 jobs at the former General Motors plant in Shreveport, the chief executive of North Louisiana Economic Partnership confirmed with The Times this morning... MORE

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. WHAT AG PICK SESSIONS FACES
Trump's pick for attorney general will be queried about civil rights and immigration at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

2. ROOF'S FATE SOON WILL REST IN HANDS OF JURORS
Prosecutors will deliver their closing arguments to persuade a jury to sentence the convicted Charleston church shooter to death.

3. WHO'S READY FOR FAREWELL
Days dwindling in his presidency, Obama is delivering a parting plea in Chicago to Americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president.

4. HOW LEGAL JOURNEY BEGINS FOR SUSPECTED FLORIDA AIRPORT SHOOTER
Esteban Santiago, 26, an Iraq war veteran, will be appointed a public defender after he was accused of killing five people and wounding six more.

5. CLAPPER BACK ON THE HILL
The nation's top intelligence official will answer questions from another Senate panel about a declassified report that fingered the Kremlin in hacking during the presidential campaign... MORE

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​​Jesse Williams: ‘Just Because We’re Magic, Does Not Mean We’re Not Real’
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​Shreveport HIV/AIDS Call to Action: 
Half of black, quarter of Latino gay men projected to be diagnosed within their lifetime. Heterosexuals not immune.
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​​The Beatings Paradigm: A carryover from our slavery past? Is there a correlation between planta-tion coding, and black parenting and discipline?
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Community Mourns the Loss of Radio Personality ‘Cat Daddy'
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Hillary Clinton: The Secretary Wears Nada​
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REVIEW: Shreveport's Ology Jazz Sextet
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   REVIEW: "United Shades        of America" with With.
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​REVIEW: Larry Wilmore's Set on the White House Correspondent's Dinner

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​​National Museum of African American Music to open on Lower Broadway
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​TAMIR RICE: Settlement of $6 Million, No Culpability
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​Maryland’s Largest Historically Black College Named a National    
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​NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED TO ARTHUR LEWIS

​Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Arthur Lewis from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He was the first Black recipient in a category other than peace.
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