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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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An Open Letter to Charles Ramsey
Before the domestic violence reports surfaced, Eris Zion Venia Dyson analyzed the now-fallen Internet star's racial insights at the For Harriet blog.
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Student-Loan Debt: Time to Get Serious
Writing at the Huffington Post, Rep. Karen Bass makes the case for a comprehensive fix to the student-loan debt crisis. For one thing, student-loan interest rates will double on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
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Report: Charles Ramsey Repeat Domestic Abuser
According to the Smoking Gun, he served jail time for assaulting his wife on more than one occasion.
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The Onion on Chris Beating Rihanna: Offensive or Funny?
Clearly, abuse is no laughing matter. But is it that bad to make a joke at the expense of the perpetrator?
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Ramsey: I'm American and a Human Being
The Cleveland man celebrated for discovering missing teens doesn't want to be called a hero.
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Can We Raise Colorblind Children?
Writing at her MyBrownBaby blog, Denene Millner hip-checks Eve, who says she wants to raise colorblind children, arguing that the star has been blinded to reality by the veneer of money and celebrity.
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Jason Collins' Ex-Fiancée Lands Book Deal
Carolyn Moos will be writing a book about hearing the news that her former fiancée is gay.
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Charles Ramsey: An Internet Hero for All the Wrong Reasons
Atlantic Wire blogger Connor Simpson lambastes the Internet's instant meme-ification of Cleveland kidnapping hero Charles Ramsey.
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Jamaica Kincaid Rejects the 'Angry Black Woman' Label
In a piece at her For Harriett blog, Kimberly N. Foster agrees with author Jamaica Kincaid's rejection of the "angry black woman" label that critics try to stamp on her work.
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Quote of the Day: Barbara Jordan
The lawyer and U.S. congresswoman said that what the American people want is very simple.

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