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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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Trafigura's Toxic Waste Won't Let Ivory Coast Be Great
So the oil company offers settlement package for Ivory Coast victims of toxic waste dump...
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Stepping Up: Vince Young Takes McNair Boys to School's Dads' Breakfast
Backing up Steve McNair in the best way, Young surprises young sons for a school event...
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UPDATE: Lab Tech in Arrested Annie Le Murder
Raymond Clark was arrested this morning for the murder of the Yale med student...
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Dozens Killed as Kenya Continues to Suffer from Drought
At least 24 people have been killed and dozens more wounded amid tribal clashes in drought-stricken northern Kenya...
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Caster Semenya Placed on Suicide Watch
Supporters feared for her mental health following the revelation that the track star is intersex...
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Trevor Rhone, Famed Jamaican Playwright, Dies at 69
Rhone is probably best known for him work on the 1973 classic "The Harder They Come"...
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Woman Beaten in Front of Daughter at Cracker Barrel
Army reservist Tasha Hill asked that Troy West apologize for nearly hitting his daughter on the way out of the restaurant. Hill responded with violence...
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The Woman Who Would Be King
Peggielene Bartels lives in Silver Spring and works as a secretary. When she steps off an airplane in Ghana on Thursday, arriving in the coastal town her family has controlled for half a century, she will be royalty...
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Social Networks in Ghana Used to Entrap Gays
Homosexuality in Ghana is a felony offense, which has put the country's gay population in a particularly vulnerable position on the Internet...
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Death by Samurai Sword for Man Who Broke into Student's Garage
A Johns Hopkins undergrad defended himself against a burgular who attacked him...
