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How Did Vikings End Up in My Family Tree?
Tracing Your Roots: A black reader wonders about a DNA test that turned up Orcadian roots.
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What Was the Double V Campaign?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A paper's call for blacks to support the WWII effort had a twist.
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Old-School Tips for Better Finances
Mixing Dad's advice with sound financial planning can help us regain stability.
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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
Ask Demetria: A suddenly insecure boyfriend may mean that something's changed in your relationship.
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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.
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Party Time! Southerners Celebrate 150th Anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression
Some people also call it the "Civil War", but those individuals obviously hate freedom...
