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How Did Vikings End Up in My Family Tree?
Tracing Your Roots: A black reader wonders about a DNA test that turned up Orcadian roots.
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What Was the Double V Campaign?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A paper's call for blacks to support the WWII effort had a twist.
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Old-School Tips for Better Finances
Mixing Dad's advice with sound financial planning can help us regain stability.
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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
Ask Demetria: A suddenly insecure boyfriend may mean that something's changed in your relationship.
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A Bad Science Experiment Doesn't Make Me a Criminal
The teen arrested and kicked out of school for a failed science experiment is telling her side of the story on the ACLU blog. Although she isn't facing charges, it isn't all rosy.
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Chicago Approves Largest School Shutdown in US History
Although teachers, parents and children protested, the school board will shutter 50 locations.
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Obama: We Must Define the War on Terror or It Will Define Us
In a major national-security speech on Thursday, the president addressed Guantánamo and drones and pushed to reframe the war on terror.
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Lee Rigby Named as Victim in Suspected London Terror Attack
Knife-wielding assailants attacked the British soldier in broad daylight, in what's being investigated as an ideologically motivated crime.
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Stop and Frisk and ... Give Us Your Weed?
The New York Civil Liberties Union's leader says that stop and frisk is a ruse to create marijuana arrests.
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Oklahoma Mom Delivers Baby Boy During Tornado
Shay-la Taylor beat the odds and the weather with her son Braeden.
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Look: President Obama's 'Foxy' 1979 Prom Photos
Thanks to a classmate, the world can enjoy the president's prom-night tuxedo and Afro.
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Tiger Woods Accepts Garcia's Apology, but Will Sponsors?
The Spanish golfer apologized Wednesday for his fried-chicken joke, but it may not be enough.
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On Listening to 'New Slaves' With White People
Writing at Noisey, Ernest Baker explains why, although he thinks Kanye West's new single is "27 times better if you're black," he hopes that white listeners will attempt to understand its message.
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