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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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South African Whites Question Their Future
One writer contemplates life after the days when "the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else."
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Va. Lt. Gov Candidate's Questionable Views
E.W. Jackson thinks the president has "Muslim sensibilities," and he's not afraid to throw around a KKK reference.
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Zoe Saldana: 'People of Color' Don't Exist
Clutch magazine's Evette Dionne takes Zoe Saldana to task for saying, "There's no such thing as people of color," and suggests that she enroll in a Critical Race Theory class.
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Black Pastors to Star in Reality TV Show
Black America Web's Michael H. Cottman asks if pastors should sanctify the foolishness of reality TV in an insightful piece about an impending Oxygen Network reality show about, well, black pastors.
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Obama Alleged Scandals: The Public Should Yawn
The four alleged scandals faced by the administration don't pass the smell test for a public flogging of the president, argues Earl Ofari Hutchinson in a blog for EURWeb, because there is no clear evidence that he had any knowledge or hand in the missteps.
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Watch This: Miguel's Stage Dive Goes All Wrong
The fans who were kicked during the singer's Billboard Awards performance are reportedly fine, so it's safe to laugh at this mishap caught on tape.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Highest-Paid Athlete
He was paid $90 million in the past year, none of it from endorsements.
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Michelle Obama Has Retired Her Bangs
The first lady revealed a new look for her commencement speech at Bowie State University: side-swept bangs.
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Watch This: President Obama Delivers Morehouse Commencement Address
After a tough week in Washington, the president delivered strong words of encouragement to more than 500 graduates on a rainy Sunday.
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