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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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Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen
You might find that attacks on his commencement speech -- a hit among graduates -- missed the mark.
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Obama Declares State of Emergency in Oklahoma
Update: The death toll from Monday's tornadoes is lower than originally reported.
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'Scandal,' Black Women and the Super-Black Mammy-Jezebel
Writing at the Shadow League, Megan Livingston explains why she sees Olivia Pope as a game changer and an everywoman.
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How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills of black people -- and particularly black youths -- and another way of addressing everyone else, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.
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Enough of Nice-Nasty Christianity
Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, Evette Dionne writes at Clutch magazine.
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Wole Soyinka: Push for Nobel Prize for Achebe Is 'Obscene'
"You know damned well that the Nobel Committee doesn't engage in such tradition," he says of the call for a posthumous conferment.
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Justin Fairfax Gets Wash. Post Endorsement for Va. Attorney General
This 34-year-old former federal prosecutor is one to watch.
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South African Whites Question Their Future
One writer contemplates life after the days when "the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else."
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Va. Lt. Gov Candidate's Questionable Views
E.W. Jackson thinks the president has "Muslim sensibilities," and he's not afraid to throw around a KKK reference.
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Zoe Saldana: 'People of Color' Don't Exist
Clutch magazine's Evette Dionne takes Zoe Saldana to task for saying, "There's no such thing as people of color," and suggests that she enroll in a Critical Race Theory class.
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