| Thousands gather in Washington on anniversary of Million Man March Posted: 10 Oct 2015 04:21 PM PDT  By Tom Ramstack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday for a rally led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on Washington and decry racial and economic injustice. Farrakhan joined a number of speakers at the "Justice or Else" march. Speakers at the rally, which followed a number of high-profile deaths of black men at the hands of police, called for reforms to law enforcement's use of force and greater access for poor people to health care and higher education.
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| Knowing what to do if shooting starts still hazy at colleges Posted: 10 Oct 2015 07:17 AM PDT  Eight years after the Virginia Tech massacre led to tighter security at colleges across the U.S., some schools make "active shooter" training mandatory for incoming students, while others offer little more than brief online guidance on what to do if there's a gunman on the loose, a review by The Associated Press finds.
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