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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
Ask Demetria: A suddenly insecure boyfriend may mean that something's changed in your relationship.
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Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen
You might find that attacks on his commencement speech -- a hit among graduates -- missed the mark.
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Oklahoma and Defense of Big Government
The GOP's notion of "self-reliance" won't hold up after disaster hits one of the nation's poorest states.
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'Scandal' Withdrawal: It's a Real Thing
Here's what the ABC drama's obsessed fans plan to do with their time now that its second season is over.
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Why I Agree With Obama's Morehouse Speech
Sade Muhammad writes on her Tumblr, the Glossy Diaries, that perhaps the president is speaking from his personal experience as a black man in America.
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Quote of the Day: Kimi Gray
The public-housing activist on everyone's right to dream.
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Chicago Approves Largest School Shutdown in US History
Although teachers, parents and children protested, the school board will shutter 50 locations.
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Obama: We Must Define the War on Terror or It Will Define Us
In a major national-security speech on Thursday, the president addressed Guantánamo and drones and pushed to reframe the war on terror.
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Lee Rigby Named as Victim in Suspected London Terror Attack
Knife-wielding assailants attacked the British soldier in broad daylight, in what's being investigated as an ideologically motivated crime.
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Stop and Frisk and ... Give Us Your Weed?
The New York Civil Liberties Union's leader says that stop and frisk is a ruse to create marijuana arrests.
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Oklahoma Mom Delivers Baby Boy During Tornado
Shay-la Taylor beat the odds and the weather with her son Braeden.
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Look: President Obama's 'Foxy' 1979 Prom Photos
Thanks to a classmate, the world can enjoy the president's prom-night tuxedo and Afro.
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Tiger Woods Accepts Garcia's Apology, but Will Sponsors?
The Spanish golfer apologized Wednesday for his fried-chicken joke, but it may not be enough.
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Quote of the Day: Charles Hamilton Houston
The lawyer and civil rights activist on black strength.

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