In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)

by Frank Eltman
Associated Press Writer

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — As a family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether officers should have confronted the gunman or waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team.

Council member and attorney Chokwe Lumumba, is shown in this Sept. 14, 2010 photograph. The Democratic primary is likely to be decided in a runoff. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger)

by Emily Wagster Pettus
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An attorney who was active in a Black nationalist group decades ago and still refers to a client as a "former Black Panther heroine" is running for mayor of Mississippi's capital city.

E. W. Jackson delivers his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for Lt. Gov. at the Virginia Republican convention in Richmond, Va., May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

by Bob Lewis
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans have chosen firebrand conservative minister E.W. Jackson's for lieutenant governor, the first Black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988.

President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
 
by Christina Cassidy and Justin Pope

ATLANTA (AP) — When President Barack Obama addressed graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he also spoke to the broader community of historically Black colleges and universities — a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.