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It's Not Your Grandmother's NAACP
The 104-year-old organization is working to dispel myths that it's black-only and mired in the past.
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Will There Ever Be Unity in Africa?
On the African Union's 50th anniversary, ethnic strife and economic competition remain barriers to peace.
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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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Santorum Brings Obama's Race Into Abortion Debate
VIDEO: The ex-senator "goes there" and invokes the "three-fifths of a person" formula used during slavery.
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Carlina White: Kidnapped Baby Comes Home 23 Years Later
VIDEO: A rare happy ending to the story of an infant snatched from Harlem Hospital in New York back in 1987.
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Is Cleric's 1997 Letter the 'Smoking Gun' in Molestation Cover-Up?
Letter reveals that the Vatican enforced a worldwide culture of cover-up in child-molestation cases.
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Will the Republicans' Attempt to Repeal National Health Care Work?
Republicans would need approval from the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Obama.
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Piers Morgan to Condi Rice: Are You High Maintenance?
The talk-show host asks why one of the country's most eligible bachelorettes has never married.
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Pipe Bomb Discovered Along MLK Parade Route
The device was found in a backpack along a parade route in Spokane, Wash.
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Arizona Shooting Victim Giffords May Leave Hospital by Friday
There may be a silver lining in this dark cloud after all.
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Obama and Hu to Tackle Issues of 'Mistrust'
The White House has rolled out the red carpet for President Hu. Now the counterparts get down to business.
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South Carolina Boy, 14, Kills Father and Great-Aunt; Wounds Grandmother
The boy used the .22-caliber rifle his father had given him as a gift.
