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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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Watch This: Kid President Wishes All a Happy Mother's Day
The adorable Internet star tells moms that they're loved.
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Damon Dash Drowning in Debt
The former Roc-a-Fella Records head owes more than $2 million in taxes.
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Bill Clinton Tells Howard Grads They Have a Gift, Choice
The former leader delivered the commencement address at the HBCU on Saturday.
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Black Singing Couple Goes Viral
Jay Leno turns Will and Monifa Sims into Internet stars.
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Lauryn Hill, Girl, Stop It!
Michael Arceneaux couldn't believe his ears when Hill told a judge that she was the descendant of slaves, and that's why she couldn't pay her taxes on her healthy income. At Ebony, Arceneaux begs the troubled singer to come back to reality -- you know, where people pay their bills and such.
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Is Janelle Monae Revealing Her Sexuality on New Song?
Some are speculating that Janelle Monae might be talking about her own sexuality in her new song, "Q.U.E.E.N." But writer Andreana Clay of Queer Black Feminist writes that she'd rather focus on Monae's self-proclaimed status of being an oddball.
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Hey, White People, Here's How You're Racist
On the York Daily Record, attorney Dawn Cutaia says that white folks don't have to be part of the KKK to be racist. It can be as easy as laughing at a black person's ethnic name or not hiring them because of it.
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NJ Hostage Situation Is Over, Suspect Dead
In Trenton, N.J., a man who fatally shot his girlfriend and teen son, then held three other children hostage, has died.
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How Lil Wayne and Rick Ross Lost: When Hip-Hop Polices Itself
How rap fans demanded more of artists and their lyrics by attacking their branding deals.

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