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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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Donte' Stallworth Screwed Up and Did the Right Thing
Jemele Hill of ESPN sees a big difference between Donte' Stallworth and Plaxico Burress...
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The Color of Health Care
Root contributor and American Prospect writing fellow Adam Serwer wants to know: Why aren't people talking about the racial inequities in the current health care system?
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The Block is Hot in Mogadishu: Dozens Killed in Fight Between Rebels and Army
Residents hid in their homes as mortar bombs fired by fighters from al-Shabab, the group battling to remove the government, hit the city on Friday...
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Michael Jackson Movie to be Released in October
Tickets for "Michael Jackson: This Is it" go on sale Sunday, September 27, Sony said in a news release Thursday...
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Ridge Claims He Was Pressured into Raising Terror Alerts
When you have a book coming out, it's a good time to tell the truth about stuff you lied about at one time...
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Frizzy: A Nicer Word than 'Nappy'
Got "challenging" hair? Live in New York and willing to spend a pretty penny?
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Somali Forces Retake Town
The town, claimed on Wednesday, is the second taken by government troops as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia's president, seeks to crush opposition fighters...
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BREAKING: Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
The former Giants star and Super Bow hero will serve 20 months in jail...
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Lockerbie Bomber Being Allowed to Die in Libya
Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who in 1988 killed 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, has terminal prostate cancer and is being allowed to die at home...
