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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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Shots Not Heard Round the World in NOLA
This witness to the Mother's Day mayhem that injured 19 wants to know: Why don't more people care?
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Quote of the Day: Shirley Chisholm
The politician shares her thoughts on perseverance.
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Happy Mother's Day! Your Daughter Is Gay
Clutch magazine's Kimberley McLeod chronicles a revelation about her sexual orientation and an evolving relationship with her mother.
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Teacher Made Student Lick Desk Clean?
The latest allegations of school discipline gone wrong come from a New York classroom.
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Kimani Gray's Parents to Sue NYC
The slain 16-year-old's family is reportedly planning to take their claim that officers used excessive force to court.
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Malcolm Shabazz on 'Formula for a Public Assassination'
As reports about the death of Malcolm X's grandson circulate, a March statement on what he said was harassment by law enforcement is getting new attention.
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Quote of the Day: J.W.E. Bowen
The minister on our individual capacity to effect change.
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A Brief History of the FBI's Most Wanted Lists
Assata Shakur is just the latest in a long list of black revolutionaries who have been among the FBI's most sought-after criminal suspects, Jamilah King writes at Colorlines.
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Racism in 2013: Just Get Over It?
Writing at the Huffington Post, Theodore Johnson says that "move on" is the most ridiculous of propositions when it comes to concerns about African-American stereotypes.
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My Racist Experience at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
"It's the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul," the Huffington Post's Seema Jilani writes in a piece about what she says was "white privilege on display."
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Aunt Viv: I Felt Demonized, Beaten Up and Crucified
Speaking out about decades-old Fresh Prince drama, Janet Hubert says Will Smith and Alfonso Ribiero were "bad kids."

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