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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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Wanting to Avoid the One-Time, Bashir Avoids Uganda Conference
The Sudanese president was warned that if he went, he could be arrested on war crimes charges...
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Obama Says: Those Indonesian Attacks Were Extremely Lame
The President calls the attack 'outrageous', condemning those behind it...
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VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
He neglects to mention the Black 'on-site consultants' that made this work possible...
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Obama Goes to Chuuuuuuuurch at NAACP Convention
He was in rare form while addressing the convention-goers in New York...
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Does Gitmo Have Room for One More?
Some clown showed up to a city council meeting in Klan robes. He was black...
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VIDEO: Barbara Boxer Makes Some Black Folks Mad
"You're speaking on behalf of the Black community?" -- A very angry man...
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VIDEO: A Glimpse of Afro Punk
Afro Punk has been getting in it in Brooklyn. Check out the young up and comers Shinobi Ninja...
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Steve McNair's Wife to Oversee Estate
The slain quarterback did not leave a will...
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...And So Began the Health Care War...
House Dems set to vote on health care bill...
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VIDEO: Michael Jackson Pepsi Accident Footage
This is the full footage and it's startling...

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