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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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Um...Isn't the Public Option Kind of the Point?
The White House is considering dropping the public option in favor of a "nonprofit health cooperative"...
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Mr. President, You Have Some 'Splainin' to Do...
Because this internal memo looks like the kind of juicy giveaways to the pharmaceutical companies that you've been publicly putting your shoe into for weeks...
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Doing Write while Doing Time
Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while relegated to solitary confinement for assaulting a guard: a love of literature.
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Party Time! Southerners Celebrate 150th Anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression
Some people also call it the "Civil War", but those individuals obviously hate freedom...
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Clinton Ends African Tour in Cape Verde
Many Cape Verdean citizens were said to be wailing in the streets, forced to come to grips with the fact that, despite their years of trying to convince people otherwise, they are indeed AFRICANS...
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Bird of a New Feather: Vick Signs with Eagles
Having paid his debt, the former Falcons star looks to get his career back on track in Philadelphia...
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VIDEO: Michael Vick Schools the Youth
Michael Vick Speaks To Englewood Youth About Negative Impact Of Dogfighting At a church in Chicago, IL...
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Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dies at 94
Paul was a guitar and electronics mastermind whose creations -- such as multitrack recording, tape delay and the solid-body guitar that bears his name, the Gibson Les Paul -- helped give rise to modern popular music, including rock 'n' roll...
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Photo: And He Thought His Air Force One Jacket Was Cool
Until Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow - High Bird came and stunted on him at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday...
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