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Soyinka on 'Obscene' Push for Achebe Nobel
A Nigerian Nobel laureate wants fans of the late fellow writer to table calls for a posthumous prize.
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Child-Support Laws: A Boon for Gold Diggers?
Experts say that flaws in the system punish poor parents and motivate others to have kids for money.
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Doggie Racism Is Real! Here's How to Deal
Race Manners: Maybe your friends' pets are doing you a favor? At least now your social circle can't ignore race.
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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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After-School Programs, Vital to Working Parents, Coming Undone
"As schools open their doors this month and next, closings and cutbacks at thousands of after-school programs nationwide have parents scrambling to make alternative arrangements..."
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Prior Incidents Emerge at Chris Brown Sentencing
At least two incident took place between Brown and Rihanna before the February attack...
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Are We Surprised?
Health care industry's PR machine isn't laying down in the reform debate either...
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The Overlooked: Seven Groups the Media Doesn't Touch
Ashton Lattimore of NewsOne understands the media doesn't engage most of Black America, but some groups get no love at all...
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Obama to Give Bernanke Another Title Shot
"Bernanke, a Republican, has played a central role in the government's extraordinary response to the recession and 2008 banking panic..."
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South Sudan Issued a Hunger Warning
The number of people needing assistance has surged since the beginning of the year due to inter-tribal conflict, poor rains and the high cost of food commodities in the region...
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More than a Woman: Reflecting on Aaliyah's Legacy Eight Years Later
What would have become of the L-I-Y-A-H?..
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Jena 6 Teen Gets Chance to Turn It Around
"Jesse Ray Beard said he was constantly in trouble, even when he behaved. It took being accused of the racially charged attempted murder of a white classmate in the Deep South to turn his life around..."
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Michael Jackson's Death Ruled a Homicide
"Los Angeles' coroner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran reached that preliminary conclusion after reviewing toxicology results carried out on Jackson's blood..."
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BREAKING: AG Holder to Appoint Prosecutor for Interrogation Investigation
"Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws..."
