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A Birmingham Prom 50 Years in the Making
Class of '63 finally gets a ball that was denied to those who participated in the Children's March.
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Intimate Look at the Williams Sisters
Director explains how Venus and Serena doc explores the way their enigmatic dad shaped their lives.
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Help! My Black Nephew Thinks He's Yellow
Our Race Manners columnist answered your burning questions in a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Check out her answers!
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19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows
Because you learn quickly that it's nothing like A Different World. At all.
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Michael Jackson Movie to be Released in October
Tickets for "Michael Jackson: This Is it" go on sale Sunday, September 27, Sony said in a news release Thursday...
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Ridge Claims He Was Pressured into Raising Terror Alerts
When you have a book coming out, it's a good time to tell the truth about stuff you lied about at one time...
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Frizzy: A Nicer Word than 'Nappy'
Got "challenging" hair? Live in New York and willing to spend a pretty penny?
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Somali Forces Retake Town
The town, claimed on Wednesday, is the second taken by government troops as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia's president, seeks to crush opposition fighters...
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BREAKING: Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
The former Giants star and Super Bow hero will serve 20 months in jail...
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Lockerbie Bomber Being Allowed to Die in Libya
Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who in 1988 killed 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, has terminal prostate cancer and is being allowed to die at home...
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Mr. President, The People Who Voted for You Are Not Joking
Despite the fact that they are going in on you comically via Elon James White's #DEMSinTHEmovies Twitter trend...
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Don Hewitt, '60 Minutes' Creator, Dies at 86
The winner of eight Emmy and two Peabody awards, Hewitt began working for CBS News as an associate director in 1948....
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Skee-Weeeeee Don't Play That!
Pinkies raised in fury, AKA sisters file a lawsuit against their president, Barbara McKinzie...
