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Johnny Bellamy portrays abolitionist Frederick Douglass, as his grandaughter Briana Bellamy plays the part of young Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave who ran the Underground Railroad, during a re-enactment of Civil War era “colored” troop activities at Fort Wayne in Detroit. (Photo by Paul Warner / AP)

Celebrating Black History Month across the US

It began with Dr. Carter Woodson. Son of slaves, he worked in Kentucky mines as a child. He became the second black person to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he learned the truth: history ignored blacks.

Daily Jeffersonian

‘Heart and soul’: how to teach all American children black history

NPR

Special section:

Milestones in Black history

PBS

Angelo Dundee, legendary boxing trainer, dies at 90 in Tampa, Florida

Angelo Dundee, renowned trainer who guided Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard to boxing glory, has died. In more than 60 years in professional boxing, he gained acclaim as a brilliant cornerman.

Sydney Morning Herald

Angelo Dundee dead at 90

YouTube

Facebook files for IPO

Facebook filed papers for one of the largest initial public offerings in U.S. history. Ending speculation, the networking company’s papers set a goal of $5 billion.

Los Angeles Times

Facebook IPO: pressure to turn personal data into profit

Telegraph.co.uk

Why Facebook’s IPO matters

TIME

Status update: Facebook to go public, plans to raise $5B

YouTube

Indiana becomes 23rd ‘right-to-work’ state

Indiana became the first in the nation’s manufacturing heartland to pass anti-union “right-to-work” legislation, dealing a blow to organized labor by allowing workers to opt out of paying union dues.

Reuters

Darrell Issa challenges Eric Holder at hearing on ‘Fast and Furious’

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., challenged the Attorney General to prove that the Justice Department would never again allow the controversial tactic of gun-walking.

Politico

China may consider bigger role in EU rescue fund

China is considering increasing its participation in the rescue funds for the European debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told journalists, without making any explicit commitments.

Reuters

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A tribal Indian dancer from Gujarat waits before performing at the opening of the Surajkund Fair in Faridabad, Haryana, India. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)	Members of a dissident indigenous group wait for the arrival of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales before a meeting in La Paz, Bolivia. (Photo by Juan Karita / AP)	A bison digs under the snow to graze inside Yellowstone National Park, Mont. (Photo by Anonymous / National Park Service / AP)

NATION

Pockets of prosperity across the nation

The recession hammered household income across the nation, but nearly a quarter of the states remained pockets of prosperity, with wages and other earnings actually growing through the downturn.

USA TODAY

WA Senate approves bill to legalize same-sex marriage

The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the state closer to becoming the seventh to allow lesbian and gay couples to wed.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

POLITICS

Obama uses prayer breakfast to call for assistance for the poor

President Barack Obama used his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to discuss the poor. The comments came a day after GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said he was “not concerned about the very poor.”

The Hill

Crunch time, but many states not ready for looming health law changes

By 2014, states and insurers must begin signing up an estimated 32 million people in Medicaid and private insurance. But a successful rollout hinges on crucial decisions and actions.

McClatchy Newspapers

Health reform law gaining wider acceptance

U.S. News & World Report

BUSINESS

New leader to reinvent J.C. Penney

Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive credited with developing its successful retail concept, is now CEO of J.C. Penney and is taking steps to overhaul the look and feel of the department store chain.

Houston Chronicle

Foreclosures draw private equity as US sells homes, mortgages en masse

Private equity firms are jumping into distressed housing as the U.S. government plans to market 200,000 foreclosed homes as rentals to speed up the economic recovery.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Multiyear study of community-colleges asks: What helps students graduate?

A new, multiyear project will produce reports annually for the next three years from the perspective of entering and experienced students, faculty members and institutions.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Analysis raises questions about rigor of teacher tests

The average scores of graduating teacher-candidates on state-required licensing exams are uniformly higher, often significantly, than the passing scores states set for such exams

Education Week

HEALTH

Experts urge control of sugar supply

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic.

ScienceDaily

Indigestion drugs taken by millions linked to hip fractures

Post-menopausal women taking proton pump inhibitors are 35 percent more likely to suffer a broken hip, research suggests. Millions of people take the drugs for heartburn, acid reflux or peptic ulcers.

Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Battle brews between Catholic Church and Obama administration

Pulpits across the country are sounding off over a recent federal mandate that may force Catholic Church employers to offer employees outside their faith health insurance covering contraception.

Oklahoma News

Blog:

Aides: President Obama’s birth-control gamble based on conviction

Politico

Religious trash talk goes mainstream in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process suspended, religious fundamentalists on both sides are gaining influence. Palestinian and Israeli analysts warn that this could complicate prospects for peace.

Christian Science Monitor

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The Daily Quote

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

The Obama Administration’s abject failure on transparency

The Atlantic

Column (Nathanael Massey):

Could climate change put the groundhog out of business?

Scientific American

Editorial:

Informant’s treatment is test of Pakistani loyalty

San Francisco Chronicle

Cartoon (Kevin Siers):

Vulnerable species disappearing in Florida

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

With Facebook IPO, time to friend privacy

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Matthew J.X. Malady):

Kill the caps lock: improve contemporary computer keyboards

Slate

Column (J. Bradford Delong):

Europe’s fiscal diet: Starving yourself is not the road to health

Business Day

Column (Jordan Weissmann):

Why is college so expensive? And can Obama make it cheaper?

The Atlantic

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Washington Post

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Washington Post

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Aussie bosses thank employees with $15M after sale

Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a 15 million dollar share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty.

San Francisco Chronicle

Giving circles: big bang for the buck

Most don’t have bulging bank accounts, but desire to change the world. That’s where philanthropic geometry of “giving circles,” banding together to get the most out of charitable donations, fills a niche.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Science decodes ‘internal voices’

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

BBC

WORLD

Defense Secretary Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan ends in 2013