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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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Goin' Up Yonder: Walter Cronkite Passes at Age 92
During turbulent times, he was "the most trusted man in America..."
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Wanting to Avoid the One-Time, Bashir Avoids Uganda Conference
The Sudanese president was warned that if he went, he could be arrested on war crimes charges...
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Obama Says: Those Indonesian Attacks Were Extremely Lame
The President calls the attack 'outrageous', condemning those behind it...
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VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
He neglects to mention the Black 'on-site consultants' that made this work possible...
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Obama Goes to Chuuuuuuuurch at NAACP Convention
He was in rare form while addressing the convention-goers in New York...
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Does Gitmo Have Room for One More?
Some clown showed up to a city council meeting in Klan robes. He was black...
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VIDEO: Barbara Boxer Makes Some Black Folks Mad
"You're speaking on behalf of the Black community?" -- A very angry man...
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VIDEO: A Glimpse of Afro Punk
Afro Punk has been getting in it in Brooklyn. Check out the young up and comers Shinobi Ninja...
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Steve McNair's Wife to Oversee Estate
The slain quarterback did not leave a will...
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...And So Began the Health Care War...
House Dems set to vote on health care bill...

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