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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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Ignorant Things People Say About My Black Kids
Writing at xoJane, Chantal Rich says that she didn't mind living in rural Tennessee, until strangers started to comment on her adopted children.
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Mad at Rihanna for the N-Word? Don't Be a Hypocrite
Ernest Owens, in a piece for the Huffington Post, encourages those who are upset about the singer's controversial Instagram post to take a look at their own online lives.
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LGBT Athletes of Color Paved the Way for Jason Collins
Writing at Colorlines, Jamilah King says that this movement has been in the works for years and has a diverse set of characters.
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20 Things Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wishes He Knew at 30
You'll love these life lessons from the basketball legend.
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Push to Change Washington Redskins' 'Derogatory, Racist Name'
One D.C. Council member is making moves to switch "Redskins" to "Redtails."
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Issa Rae on an All-Black Version of 'The View'?
It's safe to say that this show, slated for Magic Johnson's Aspire network, will be good for a few laughs.
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Celibate and Black? There's a Dating Site for You
Finding people with "the same values" has never been so efficient.
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4 Tony Nods Each for 'Motown,' 'The Trip to Bountiful'
Cicely Tyson and Condola Rashad are among the black actors being honored. Read the full list.
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GOP Strategist: America Is Tired of Right-Wing Radio
Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch checks in on the leaked comments of GOP strategist Frank Luntz, who said that right-wing radio is preventing moderate Republicans from achieving a compromise on immigration.
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