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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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VIDEO: Michael Vick Schools the Youth
Michael Vick Speaks To Englewood Youth About Negative Impact Of Dogfighting At a church in Chicago, IL...
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Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dies at 94
Paul was a guitar and electronics mastermind whose creations -- such as multitrack recording, tape delay and the solid-body guitar that bears his name, the Gibson Les Paul -- helped give rise to modern popular music, including rock 'n' roll...
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Photo: And He Thought His Air Force One Jacket Was Cool
Until Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow - High Bird came and stunted on him at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday...
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Money in the Bank: The Big Business of Torture
As you're probably aware, the government will pay top dollar to build prisons you're not supposed to know about...
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Suspect Apprehended in Vernon Forrest Murder
Charman Sinkfield was picked up by US marshals on the interstate wearing a dreadlock wig...
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Anti-Prop 8 Legislation Moved to 2012 Ballot
Some wanted it on the ballot as soon as 2010, but the leaders from Equality California put the kibosh on that...
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Ex-Nebraska Star Lawrence Phillips Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
With all the health care "debate," you might forgot some Black folks can be crazy as well...
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Women of the Ivy Persuasion Get Offers for Eggs
Jennifer Anyaegbunam writes that a joke among cash-strapped co-eds of the Ancient Eight is considered a very lucrative business with real medical risks...
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Racists Stay Classy with Georgia Rep. David Scott
Why break a sweat over being civil when you can just spraypaint a swastika on something?..
