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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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Don't Call It a Comeback: Egypt in Row Over Artificial Virginity Device
Egypt is up in arms over a device which claims to restore a woman's "purity" before her wedding night...
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94 Years Later, S. Carolina Pardons Two Death Row Inmates
Two great-uncles of radio show host Tom Joyner were pardoned after being wrongfully accused of murder...
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Ghosts of Katrina Await Obama in New Orleans
The president is set to speak at a town hall in New Orleans and see the uneven rebuilding process taking place following Hurricane Katrina...
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Who Doesn't 'Swastika' Obama?
The Secret Service and local police are investigating an odd message carved into the green of a Massachusetts golf course...
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UCLA Chem Lab Stabber Pleads Not Guilty
Damon Thompson pleaded not guilty to premeditated attempted murder on a fellow student in UCLA's chemistry lab...
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Morehouse Takes a Page Out of GQ
Morehouse College enforces stricter dress code to bring a touch of professionalism back to the classroom...
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Roger Goodell Likes Mike Vick More than Rush Limbaugh
Apparently, the NFL commish is none-too-keen on having a public intellectual such as Limbaugh having anything to do with owning a team of any kind. Not even the Rams...
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Baucus Bill Passes Senate Finance Committee
Bill passed by 14-9 vote, Sen. Olympia Snowe the lone Republican to vote in support of the bill...
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Has Hip-Hop Come "of Age"?
"We were tired of the drugs, the gangs, the burning buildings. This was our way to say: We're going to do what we want."
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Russian FM: "Hey Hils, Easy on the 'Iran Sanctions' Talk"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow believed that such threats would not persuade Iran to comply and that negotiations should continue to be pursued...
