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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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Obama "Joker" Artist is NOT a Conservative
He has no affiliation to speak of other than the Rahm Emanuel Is Not My Homeboy Club...
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The NFL on Vick: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Tommy Craggs of Deadspin wonders why the NFL doesn't take itself more to task for its cruel treatment of human beings...
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Man Brings Street Sweeper to Anti-Obama Rally
With a nation embroiled in the health care debate, now's as good a time as any to toss the right to bear arms into the mix...
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Nigerian Police Round Up Hundreds of Boko Haram
The arrests on Saturday came weeks after a radical sect killed almost 800 people in the north of the country...
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Troy Davis Allowed to Present Evidence to Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Troy Anthony Davis the chance to present evidence in court that the condemned man has said for years will clear him of the murder of a Savannah police officer...
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First Step: Pass the Bill
Adam Serwer of The American Prospect wants to remind people the public option is not the bill itself...
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Usain Bolt Covers 100 Meters Much More Quickly than Everyone Else
9.58 seconds? Homie definitely took the track game into "ludicrous speed"...
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Um...Isn't the Public Option Kind of the Point?
The White House is considering dropping the public option in favor of a "nonprofit health cooperative"...
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Mr. President, You Have Some 'Splainin' to Do...
Because this internal memo looks like the kind of juicy giveaways to the pharmaceutical companies that you've been publicly putting your shoe into for weeks...
