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How Did Vikings End Up in My Family Tree?
Tracing Your Roots: A black reader wonders about a DNA test that turned up Orcadian roots.
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What Was the Double V Campaign?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A paper's call for blacks to support the WWII effort had a twist.
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Old-School Tips for Better Finances
Mixing Dad's advice with sound financial planning can help us regain stability.
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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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Corrective Rape: An Ugly Contradiction
In South Africa, thirty-one lesbians have been reported raped and murdered since 1998. According to one rights group, only two of those cases have ever made it to the courts...
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Remember When We Didn't Like Wall Street?
"Investment banks, of all things, are making serious money again, thanks in part to government aid. Ironically, they are benefiting from the crisis they helped to create. As profits go up, so do salaries -- only this time, it's the taxpayers who are shouldering the risks..."
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Sgt. Crowley: No Racial Comments. A Fellow Cop...Not So Much
This internet machine has a way of coming back to bite people...
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Twitter Hi-Jinks: How Black Are You?
"This Week in Blackness" funnyman Elon James White wants to know...
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AKAs: Get Your Girl Post Haste
In a skeewee heard 'round the world, the sorority is looking to fire its national president for a $900,000 dalliance of the wax figure persuasion...
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Nigeria Tracking Down Islamist Fighters While the Block Cools Down a Bit
With the block a little less hot, Nigeria's army hunts members of the Islamist group Boko Haram...
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UPDATED VIDEO: Generally Speaking: Colin Powell on Arrest of Dr. Gates
Powell sat down with Larry King and, among other things, shared his thoughts on the arrest of Dr. Gates...
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12-Year-Old Boston Girl Hit By Stray Bullet
She was watching television when a round from an AK-47 came through the siding of her home...
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Many Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Turks and Caicos
"At least 85 people are missing in open water off the Turks and Caicos islands after a boat with up to 200 Haitian migrants on board capsized, killing at least two..."
