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Soyinka on 'Obscene' Push for Achebe Nobel
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?
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
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
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
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Teen Won't Be Charged for Science Experiment Gone Bad
Kiera Wilmot faced up to five years in prison in a case that caused national outrage over law enforcement's overreaction.
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Explaining That Race Is a Social Construct -- Again
The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to recent writing on race and intelligence by reminding us exactly what race is and what it isn't.
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Bill Maher Responds to White Guys. Why Not to Wayne Brady?
Morris W. O'Kelly writes at the Huffington Post that the talk-show host only picks fights that he thinks he can win. But with Wayne Brady, he lost badly.
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Exec on Bad AIDS Drugs: 'Who Cares? It's Just Blacks Dying'
Ranbaxy Laboratories has pleaded guilty to selling adulterated drugs. Fortune has an account of what one insider said were internal attitudes toward the India-based company's most vulnerable victims.
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Did Jay Harris Actually Choose Rap Over Football?
It seems that Michigan State had a hand in the athlete-artist's surprising career decision.
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Obama Calls Staffer Shot While Caught in Crossfire
Organizing for Action's Gregory Jackson and the president discussed his firsthand lesson about the importance of gun-violence prevention.
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Details of Malcolm Shabazz's Death Revealed
Update: The men who beat Malcolm Shabazz to death used a bat or stick during the attack.
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Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
The civil rights leader's thoughts on love, lynching and the law.
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AP, IRS, Benghazi: How Can Americans Trust Obama?
Writing at the Guardian, conservative blogger Crystal Wright weighs in on the various controversies swirling around the Obama administration and determines that Republicans -- and Americans in general, for that matter -- only want answers.
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