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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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She's 'Androgynous'? Zoe Saldana Needs a Dictionary
Clutch magazine's Yesha Callahan is perplexed about some of the actress's recent commentary.
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IRS Scandal Is News, but Tax-Exempt Status Was Never Politically Neutral
In a piece for Colorlines, Brentin Mock places the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party groups in historical context.
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The World's Most and Least Racist Countries
The Washington Post's visual of World Values Survey data provides a global snapshot of attitudes.
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Charles Ramsey Tattoo and Action Figure
The Cleveland kidnapping hero will be remembered through more than just memes.
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Teen Won't Be Charged for Science Experiment Gone Bad
Kiera Wilmot faced up to five years in prison in a case that caused national outrage over law enforcement's overreaction.
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Explaining That Race Is a Social Construct -- Again
The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to recent writing on race and intelligence by reminding us exactly what race is and what it isn't.
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Bill Maher Responds to White Guys. Why Not to Wayne Brady?
Morris W. O'Kelly writes at the Huffington Post that the talk-show host only picks fights that he thinks he can win. But with Wayne Brady, he lost badly.
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Ask Jenée Desmond-Harris Anything
Join our Race Manners advice columnist for a chat on Reddit.
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Exec on Bad AIDS Drugs: 'Who Cares? It's Just Blacks Dying'
Ranbaxy Laboratories has pleaded guilty to selling adulterated drugs. Fortune has an account of what one insider said were internal attitudes toward the India-based company's most vulnerable victims.

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