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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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Lockerbie Bomber Being Allowed to Die in Libya
Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who in 1988 killed 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, has terminal prostate cancer and is being allowed to die at home...
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Mr. President, The People Who Voted for You Are Not Joking
Despite the fact that they are going in on you comically via Elon James White's #DEMSinTHEmovies Twitter trend...
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Don Hewitt, '60 Minutes' Creator, Dies at 86
The winner of eight Emmy and two Peabody awards, Hewitt began working for CBS News as an associate director in 1948....
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Skee-Weeeeee Don't Play That!
Pinkies raised in fury, AKA sisters file a lawsuit against their president, Barbara McKinzie...
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76-Year Old MD Man Beaten While He Fished
One of the assailants admitted in his police interview that he did not care for the Black folk...
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Obama Feeling Good about Mideast Peace Chances
"There has been movement in the right direction," Obama said. "If all sides are willing to move off of the rut that we're in currently, then I think there is an extraordinary opportunity to make real progress..."
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Uh...Word? Rodney King to Box. A Cop.
Be careful: Shaking your head like that can cause injury...
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First Black Ref in NFL Passes Away
After suffering a career-ending knee injury in a 1952 college All-Star game, Burl Toler turned to officiating and was hired by the NFL in 1965...
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VIDEO: Michael Jackson's Doctor Releases a Message
Dr. Murray wanted to say thanks to the seven people who are currently supporting him...
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Breaking: Conservative Columnist Robert Novak Succumbs to Cancer
Novak wrote the longest-running current U.S. syndicated political column...

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