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Intimate Look at the Williams Sisters
Director explains how Venus and Serena doc explores the way their enigmatic dad shaped their lives.
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Help! My Black Nephew Thinks He's Yellow
Our Race Manners columnist answered your burning questions in a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Check out her answers!
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19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows
Because you learn quickly that it's nothing like A Different World. At all.
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Shots Not Heard Round the World in NOLA
This witness to the Mother's Day mayhem that injured 19 wants to know: Why don't more people care?
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A Saint Goes Marching In
Derrick Tabb of New Orleans is giving kids a good old-fashioned tune up: With a tuba...
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VIDEO: GOP to Heather Blish: Stop Snitchin'
A "mom from a few blocks away" ran a bit of roughshod over an Iowa town hall meeting and it seems she was not just a concerned citizen...
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Jobless Rate Falls from 9.5 to 9.4%
Time to party! Not really, but let's take any improvement we can get...
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AUDIO: Preview - Whitney Houston "Million Dollar Bill"
A snippet of a track off Whitney's forthcoming album...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Expected Today
It's a truly sad state of (GOP) affairs when an underqualified woman of color uses all her empathetic ethnic guile to ascend to the highest bench in the land...
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The Right Roughage Lacks in the South Bronx
The dearth of supermarkets leave Blacks and Latinos without healthy food choices...
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VIDEO: A PSA from Nasir Jones
A public service announcement from the guy who pays Kelis' tuition every month...
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A Congressman from New Orleans Involved in Corruption? Come On...
Believe it or not, Former Representative William J. Jefferson was convicted Wednesday afternoon of using his office to try to enrich himself and relatives through a web of bribes and payoffs involving business ventures in Africa...
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Violated, Too: Congo's Male Rape Victims
For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men...
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The Russian Obama
Because any black person who makes unlikely political runs can't really be anything else...
