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    Soyinka on 'Obscene' Push for Achebe Nobel

    by Sahara Reporters

    A Nigerian Nobel laureate wants fans of the late fellow writer to table calls for a posthumous prize.

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    Child-Support Laws: A Boon for Gold Diggers?

    by Keli Goff

    Experts say that flaws in the system punish poor parents and motivate others to have kids for money.

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    Doggie Racism Is Real! Here's How to Deal

    by Jenée Desmond-Harris

    Race Manners: Maybe your friends' pets are doing you a favor? At least now your social circle can't ignore race.

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    What Black High School Grads Need to Hear

    by Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D.

    Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.

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    How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills of black people -- and particularly black youths -- and another way of addressing everyone else, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.

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    Enough of Nice-Nasty Christianity

    by Evette Dionne

    Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, Evette Dionne writes at Clutch magazine. 

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    Wole Soyinka: Push for Nobel Prize for Achebe Is 'Obscene'

    by Jenée Desmond-Harris

    "You know damned well that the Nobel Committee doesn't engage in such tradition," he says of the call for a posthumous conferment. 

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    Justin Fairfax Gets Wash. Post Endorsement for Va. Attorney General

    by The Root Staff

    This 34-year-old former federal prosecutor is one to watch.

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    South African Whites Question Their Future

    by Jenée Desmond-Harris

    One writer contemplates life after the days when "the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else."

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    Va. Lt. Gov Candidate's Questionable Views

    by Jenée Desmond-Harris

    E.W. Jackson thinks the president has "Muslim sensibilities," and he's not afraid to throw around a KKK reference.

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    Zoe Saldana: 'People of Color' Don't Exist

    by Evette Dionne

    Clutch magazine's Evette Dionne takes Zoe Saldana to task for saying, "There's no such thing as people of color," and suggests that she enroll in a Critical Race Theory class.

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    Quote of the Day: Oprah Winfrey

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    The media mogul on freedom.

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    Black Pastors to Star in Reality TV Show

    by Michael H. Cottman

    Black America Web's Michael H. Cottman asks if pastors should sanctify the foolishness of reality TV in an insightful piece about an impending Oxygen Network reality show about, well, black pastors.

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    Obama Alleged Scandals: The Public Should Yawn

    by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

    The four alleged scandals faced by the administration don't pass the smell test for a public flogging of the president, argues Earl Ofari Hutchinson in a blog for EURWeb, because there is no clear evidence that he had any knowledge or hand in the missteps.

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