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What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
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10 Pieces of Advice for Postcollege Life
She Matters: This writer wishes someone had told her these things at her commencement.
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Celebrating Race in the Renaissance
Image of the Week: What's the meaning behind this 16th-century cameo featuring a black and a white face?
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IRS Apology for Tea Party Racists?
If any other group called for the government's demise, the GOP would have a fit.
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Doing Write while Doing Time
Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while relegated to solitary confinement for assaulting a guard: a love of literature.
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Party Time! Southerners Celebrate 150th Anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression
Some people also call it the "Civil War", but those individuals obviously hate freedom...
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Clinton Ends African Tour in Cape Verde
Many Cape Verdean citizens were said to be wailing in the streets, forced to come to grips with the fact that, despite their years of trying to convince people otherwise, they are indeed AFRICANS...
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Bird of a New Feather: Vick Signs with Eagles
Having paid his debt, the former Falcons star looks to get his career back on track in Philadelphia...
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VIDEO: Michael Vick Schools the Youth
Michael Vick Speaks To Englewood Youth About Negative Impact Of Dogfighting At a church in Chicago, IL...
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Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dies at 94
Paul was a guitar and electronics mastermind whose creations -- such as multitrack recording, tape delay and the solid-body guitar that bears his name, the Gibson Les Paul -- helped give rise to modern popular music, including rock 'n' roll...
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Photo: And He Thought His Air Force One Jacket Was Cool
Until Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow - High Bird came and stunted on him at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday...
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Money in the Bank: The Big Business of Torture
As you're probably aware, the government will pay top dollar to build prisons you're not supposed to know about...
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Suspect Apprehended in Vernon Forrest Murder
Charman Sinkfield was picked up by US marshals on the interstate wearing a dreadlock wig...
