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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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Listen Up! "Why Making Healthful Food Cheaper Isn't Enough"
NPR's Morning Edition explains why more affordable healthy food isn't enough to curb poor diet trends
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Check It Out: A Hop into the Time Machine
Cartoonist Tom Toles takes a look into the future of Obamacare debates between Democrats and Republicans.
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Black Leaders Through the Looking Glass
From a parallel universe, the Vox Africanus debuts
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The Return of Blackface
Recent plays have resorted to a device that harks back to the days of the minstrel shows, says Broadway and Me blogger, Janice C. Simpson.
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Fugees Video Director Faces Unspeakable Charges
Aswad Ayinde charged with impregnating daughters in bizarre end-of-days plot
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Smoking Gun, Gawker PWN Yele and Wyclef Again
It appears Clef paid a gal pal $105,000 from Yele funds.
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James Brown's Body Has Not Been Moved from Crypt
One of his daughter's said this was the case. TMZ says this is not the case.
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Leader Defends Agency Response to Toyota Fiasco
David Strickland told a House subcommittee that the findings of an NHTSA investigation did not warrant a recall.
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Pardons Sought for Those Who Help Slaves Escape to Freedom
A group is working to have Kentucky governor clear the names of the men and women who were convicted for this act.
