Week In Review

Associated Press WASHINGTON — Howard University in Washington, D.C., has confirmed that six employees have been fired for “gross misconduct and neglect of duties” after school officials discovered financial aid money had been misappropriated. News outlets reported last week that an investigation from 2007 to 2016 found that some employees at the historically black university…

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Associated Press BEIJING — China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of American pork, fruit and other products Monday in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce. The Finance Ministry said it was responding to a U.S. tariff hike on steel and aluminum that took…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Charles Barkley (Photo: Shutterstock)   Associated Press HERNANDO, Miss. — Charles Barkley has donated $250,000 toward educating Mississippi and Alabama high school students about African-American history. The Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported last week that the basketball Hall of Famer and TV analyst’s donation to the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi will help…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This May 8, 1964 file photo shows Linda Brown Smith standing in front of the Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. The refusal of the public school to admit Brown in 1951, then nine years old, because she is black, led to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In 1954, the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Anita Ross holds a photo of shooting victim Stephon Alonzo Clark, as she and other protestors block the entrance to Sacramento City Thursday, March 22, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Clark was shot and killed by two Sacramento police officers who were responding to a call of a man breaking at least three vehicle…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  People attend the first ever March For Our Lives to demand stricter gun control laws on March 24, 2018 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Olivier Douliery/ Abaca – Sipa via AP Images)   ASSOCIATED PRESS Charlie Goodman looked at the massive crowd around him, the largest youth-led protest in Washington since the Vietnam War…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., closes her eyes and cries as she stands silently at the podium and times the amount of time it took the Parkland shooter to go on his killing spree during the “March for Our Lives” rally…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Draylen Mason  (Photo courtesy: Trice Edney Wire.com)   ASSOCIATED PRESS ROUND ROCK, Texas — The suspect in the deadly bombings that terrorized Austin blew himself up early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him, bringing a grisly end to a three-week manhunt. But police warned that more bombs could be out there. The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Les Payne, a journalist for nearly four decades with Newsday. The newspaper reported Tuesday, March 20, 2018, that Payne died unexpectedly Monday night at his home in Harlem. He was part of the Long Island newspaper’s reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for a series titled “The Heroin Trail.” (Ken…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 photo, DeLores Venable addresses Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper during the Asheville Citizens Police Action Committee meeting at the Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center in Asheville, N.C. The FBI is probing the Aug. 25, 2017 beating of a black man by a white police officer as…

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