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A Birmingham Prom 50 Years in the Making
Class of '63 finally gets a ball that was denied to those who participated in the Children's March.
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Intimate Look at the Williams Sisters
Director explains how Venus and Serena doc explores the way their enigmatic dad shaped their lives.
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Help! My Black Nephew Thinks He's Yellow
Our Race Manners columnist answered your burning questions in a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Check out her answers!
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19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows
Because you learn quickly that it's nothing like A Different World. At all.
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Meet the Anti-Violence Blogger Shot in New Orleans
Brentin Mock writes at Colorlines about journalist and documentarian Deborah "Big Red" Cotton, who has expressed both her concern about New Orleans violence and her compassion and love for black men in the city.
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The Story Behind 'Fruitvale Station'
Slate's Aisha Harris predicts that the film about the last day in the life of Oscar Grant -- who was fatally shot by a police officer in Oakland, Calif. -- will be both powerful and unsettling.
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Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty
The Philadelphia abortion doctor has been convicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter.
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High School 'White Girls Club' Sent to Counseling
"What we can address and attempt to control is how that behavior affects our school climate and culture," said the New Jersey school superintendent.
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O.J. Back in Court to Ask for New Trial
Simpson will argue that he was inadequately represented at his 2008 trial for armed robbery and kidnapping.
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19 Injured in New Orleans Shooting
At least two children were among those shot when gunmen opened fire during a Mother's Day parade.
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Malcolm Shabazz: A Life Cut Short
Jelani Cobb writes in the New Yorker that Malcolm Shabazz, who died last week in Mexico, was a young man still defining his place amid a looming legacy.
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No 2nd-Class Families
The plights of African Americans and immigrants in America aren't so different, and NAACP leader Benjamin Todd Jealous writes on the Huffington Post that blacks should support the universal struggle for equality.
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Memory of My Absent Dad Pushed My Single Mother
Raised by her single mother, Sharda Sekaran reflects in a piece for Ebony.com on how her absent father's legacy of intelligence pushed her mother to push her.
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