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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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Listen Up! Hugs Help Reporter Cover Stories
Pam Fessler has found that warm embraces seem par for the course on her new beat covering poverty...
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Check It Out: Questions Still Circle McNair Death
Steve McNair's death may not be as simple as it seems...
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Gates Foundation Puts $10M on Black History Museum
Gates Foundation gives $10M to Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture...
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Check It Out: Spike Jonze and Kanye West's 'We Were Once A Fairy Tale'
Short film begins with a nightclub setting, but then gets "really weird."
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Listen Up! Is Harry Reid Tough Enough?
Because right now, the Nevada senator is the key to health care reform...
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UCONN Football Player Fatally Stabbed
Cornerback Jasper Howard was killed outside a school dance after a fight broke out between two groups...
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Rap Responds to Derrion Albert's Murder
David Banner, 9th Wonder, others group in Chicago for MTV special/"Something's Wrong" video shoot.
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Breaking the Last Racial Taboo?
White candidate for NYC Public Advocate Places black wife and kids front and center.
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Obama Too Cautious, Slow on Judicial Posts?
Delays having a ripple effect in fed courts; caseloads are backed up.
