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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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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...
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Doing Write while Doing Time
Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while relegated to solitary confinement for assaulting a guard: a love of literature.
