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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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She's Focused, Man...
13-year-old gymnast Alexis Page has an Olympic dream. Tell Stoute to holler at her man...
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VIDEO: Joe Jackson Confirms MJ's Love Child in Interview
So...maybe Billie Jean was his lover?
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Corrective Rape: An Ugly Contradiction
In South Africa, thirty-one lesbians have been reported raped and murdered since 1998. According to one rights group, only two of those cases have ever made it to the courts...
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Remember When We Didn't Like Wall Street?
"Investment banks, of all things, are making serious money again, thanks in part to government aid. Ironically, they are benefiting from the crisis they helped to create. As profits go up, so do salaries -- only this time, it's the taxpayers who are shouldering the risks..."
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Sgt. Crowley: No Racial Comments. A Fellow Cop...Not So Much
This internet machine has a way of coming back to bite people...
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Twitter Hi-Jinks: How Black Are You?
"This Week in Blackness" funnyman Elon James White wants to know...
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AKAs: Get Your Girl Post Haste
In a skeewee heard 'round the world, the sorority is looking to fire its national president for a $900,000 dalliance of the wax figure persuasion...
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Nigeria Tracking Down Islamist Fighters While the Block Cools Down a Bit
With the block a little less hot, Nigeria's army hunts members of the Islamist group Boko Haram...
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UPDATED VIDEO: Generally Speaking: Colin Powell on Arrest of Dr. Gates
Powell sat down with Larry King and, among other things, shared his thoughts on the arrest of Dr. Gates...
