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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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White Dad Accused of Kidnapping Biracial Daughters
A customer was concerned that the family "didn't match up."
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New Yorkers Rally After Murder of Gay Man
Mark Carson's murder was just the latest incident in a month that's seen an uptick in homophobic violence in the city. Demonstrators' message: "Mark is not going to die in vain."
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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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Trayvon Martin: The Latest
Experts debate origins of shouts on 911 recording. Plus: George Zimmerman's wife files a witness list for her perjury trial.
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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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