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Bill Clinton Needs to Shut Up
The ex-president's willingness to speak out on Syria spells disaster for Obama in more ways than one.
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Alabama County May Change Voting Rights
Shelby, which is challenging Section 5, has changed, but voter advocates say work is still needed.
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Educated Black Women Do Find Husbands
She Matters: A revived story sparks an age-old debate about going to college versus getting married.
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Da Vinci's Patron -- as a Black Man?
Image of the Week: This 15th-century piece depicts an Italian duke as the embodiment of his nickname, "The Moor."
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I Went to an HBCU to Experience Being a Minority
A white Howard student explains a choice of college that many dismissed as a joke and others wondered whether she could handle.
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What Lautenberg's Death Means for Cory Booker
"It's going to be a little more difficult or a lot more difficult" for the Newark, N.J., mayor if he wants to run for the Senate, says one expert.
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Quote of the Day: Garvey on Our Ancestors
The black nationalist leader on what lessons we should pass on to our descendants.
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George Zimmerman Will Go on Trial, Not Trayvon Martin
The Huffington Post's Mark I. Pinsky is dishing out legal analysis about the George Zimmerman defense team's attempt to make use of Trayvon Martin's past bouts with marijuana use and fighting.
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Michael Steele and Reince Preibus Judged by Different Standards
In a piece for Ebony, Michael Arceneaux sheds light on former Chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele's problem with his successor. Apparently Priebus is getting breaks that eluded Steele.
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I'm Pregnant, and I Have a Mother-in-Law From Hell
An expectant mother tells writer Danielle T. Pointdujour at Ebony why she has concerns about bringing a child into the world while a war with her overbearing mother-in-law rages on.
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Michael Steele 'Looking at' a Run for Governor
The former Republican National Committee chairman is considering the run despite calling Maryland a "tough state" with "a lot of challenges."
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Supreme Court OKs Warrantless DNA Collection
Police can now collect swabs from anyone who is arrested, in what the ACLU calls "a gaping new exception to the Fourth Amendment."
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Report: Push to Expel Dark-Skinned Malians From Kidal
Residents say that members of the light-skinned Taureg ethnic group are attempting to push out the city's darker inhabitants.
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