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Virginia Conversations: Graduating in the Black
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From NPR News- Flooding Brings San Antonio To Standstill, Kills One May 25, 2013In one neighborhood, 54 were people rescued. They described a water level that "swallowed up trucks and was chin-high."
- 'We'll Keep Running': Thousands Complete Final Mile Of Boston Marathon May 25, 2013On a cold and rainy day in Boston thousands gathered to finish what two bombs stole from them. A one-mile run traced the home-stretch of the Boston Marathon, giving spectators, runners and victims a chance at closure.
- Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes May 25, 2013As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military's failure to repair a system that has placed service members in more danger of sexual assault than of battlefield injury.
- Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap? May 25, 2013Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
- Obama Forgets To Salute; Sparks Debate On Presidential Tradition May 25, 2013The presidential salute actually breaks with military decorum and was started by Ronald Reagan in 1981.
- Flooding Brings San Antonio To Standstill, Kills One May 25, 2013
- From BBC News
- More arrests in Woolwich inquiry May 25, 2013Three men are arrested in south-east London in connection with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby near Woolwich barracks on Wednesday.
- Extremism taskforce after Woolwich May 25, 2013David Cameron is to set up a taskforce to "look again" at the government's strategy for dealing with extremism and radicalisation in the wake of the killing of a soldier in Woolwich.
- French soldier stabbed near Paris May 25, 2013French authorities are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier in a Paris suburb was a copycat attack after a soldier was killed in London on Wednesday.
- Hezbollah promises Syria 'victory' May 25, 2013The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group promises victory in Syria where his supporters are backing President al-Assad, amid an upsurge in fighting there.
- Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Bayern Munich May 25, 2013Arjen Robben scores a dramatic late winner as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final.
- More arrests in Woolwich inquiry May 25, 2013
