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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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NeNe Leakes Reporting for Atlanta Television Station
From stripper to Real Housewife to reporter. Wow, anything is possible in America.
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Microsoft Researcher Argues That White Flight From MySpace Led to Facebook Success
Danah Boyd suggests that it wasn't necessarily ingenuity that let to Facebook's mass appeal.
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Ellis Cose Restores Balance to Tea Party Debate
Newsweek columnist highlights the complexities of the Tea Party through a historical lens.
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Time Poll: Voters Like Obama but Not His Policies
The majority of voters like President Obama but feel the country is on the wrong track.
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Despite Protests, Bud Selig Shows Little Signs of Moving 2011 All-Star Game From Arizona
MLB commissioner says SB 1070 is a political issue, not a baseball issue.
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Players Association Doesn't Buy NBA's Reported Financial Woes
The players union prepares for a lockout.
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One Million People Will Lose Their Homes This Year
The number of people who will lose homes to foreclosures continues to grow.
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Health Alert: FDA Panel Votes to Restrict Avandia
The majority of the panel voted to pull it from the shelves.
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Terri Sewell Wins Democratic Nomination in Alabama's 7th District
She could become the first woman elected to Congress from Alabama.
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Anonymous Group Engages in Illegal Act to Expose Pregnant 'Illegal' Immigrants
Group sent detailed information of 1,300 people to government agencies and news outlets in Utah.
