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Sports briefs: Ex-Northwood star Kent wins javelin at NCAA Mideast Regional (The Shreveport Times): FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Louisiana-Monroe freshman Kyle Kent, a former Northwood star, won the javelin Friday at the NCAA Mideast Track and Field Regional. 'The Colfax Massacre' and 'The Day Freedom Died' (International Herald Tribune): LeeAnna Keith and Charles Lane bring significantly different perspectives to the appalling story of the Colfax, Louisiana, riots of Easter Sunday, 1873, that essentially ended Reconstruction and post-Civil War efforts at racial equality.