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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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Quote of the Day: Malcolm X
An old favorite. Here's one of his most famous, and catchiest, quotes.
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20 Things Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wishes He Knew at 30
You'll love these life lessons from the basketball legend.
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Push to Change Washington Redskins' 'Derogatory, Racist Name'
One D.C. Council member is making moves to switch "Redskins" to "Redtails."
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Issa Rae on an All-Black Version of 'The View'?
It's safe to say that this show, slated for Magic Johnson's Aspire network, will be good for a few laughs.
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Celibate and Black? There's a Dating Site for You
Finding people with "the same values" has never been so efficient.
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4 Tony Nods Each for 'Motown,' 'The Trip to Bountiful'
Cicely Tyson and Condola Rashad are among the black actors being honored. Read the full list.
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GOP Strategist: America Is Tired of Right-Wing Radio
Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch checks in on the leaked comments of GOP strategist Frank Luntz, who said that right-wing radio is preventing moderate Republicans from achieving a compromise on immigration.
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Quote of the Day: James Baldwin
The author and social critic on what it will take to realize the American dream.
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America Gets Outraged Only When Gun Violence Hits Whites
Blogger Mia McKenzie, in a piece for the Guardian, rails against the country's double standard on gun violence, saying that it seems to matter only when it occurs in white neighborhoods.
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Jason Collins Says 'I'm Gay' in the NBA: Why This Is Huge
Writing at the Huffington Post, Michelangelo Signorile says that Washington Wizards center Jason Collins' announcement that he is gay is "huge" because he is helping to break down barriers for LGBT rights.

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