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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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Mentally Ill Offenders Burden Juvenile System
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders...
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Swine Flu Prepares to Make a Comeback
And just when we were getting over being shook when somebody sneezed in a public place...
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Lucky Number 70: Tiger Wins at Bridgestone
The victory marks the 70 time in his PGA career that Tiger Woods made other golfers feel inadequate...
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40 Inmates Hospitalized in CA Prison Riot
The trouble started after a heated discussion over Obamacare...
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A Saint Goes Marching In
Derrick Tabb of New Orleans is giving kids a good old-fashioned tune up: With a tuba...
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VIDEO: GOP to Heather Blish: Stop Snitchin'
A "mom from a few blocks away" ran a bit of roughshod over an Iowa town hall meeting and it seems she was not just a concerned citizen...
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Jobless Rate Falls from 9.5 to 9.4%
Time to party! Not really, but let's take any improvement we can get...
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AUDIO: Preview - Whitney Houston "Million Dollar Bill"
A snippet of a track off Whitney's forthcoming album...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Expected Today
It's a truly sad state of (GOP) affairs when an underqualified woman of color uses all her empathetic ethnic guile to ascend to the highest bench in the land...
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The Right Roughage Lacks in the South Bronx
The dearth of supermarkets leave Blacks and Latinos without healthy food choices...
