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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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Which Slave Sailed Himself to Freedom?
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Life took him from a daring sea escape to a stint in Congress.
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I'm Creole. Why Do I Have South Asian DNA?
Tracing Your Roots: Several reasons could explain a questioner's surprising genetic testing results.
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School a Beacon of Hope in Nigeria
At a university in Yola, graduates offer a glimpse of a promising future in a strife-torn region.
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'Scandal,' Black Women and the Super-Black Mammy-Jezebel
Writing at the Shadow League, Megan Livingston explains why she sees Olivia Pope as a game changer and an everywoman.
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How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills of black people -- and particularly black youths -- and another way of addressing everyone else, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.
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Enough of Nice-Nasty Christianity
Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, Evette Dionne writes at Clutch magazine.
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Wole Soyinka: Push for Nobel Prize for Achebe Is 'Obscene'
"You know damned well that the Nobel Committee doesn't engage in such tradition," he says of the call for a posthumous conferment.
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Justin Fairfax Gets Wash. Post Endorsement for Va. Attorney General
This 34-year-old former federal prosecutor is one to watch.
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South African Whites Question Their Future
One writer contemplates life after the days when "the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else."
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Va. Lt. Gov Candidate's Questionable Views
E.W. Jackson thinks the president has "Muslim sensibilities," and he's not afraid to throw around a KKK reference.
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Zoe Saldana: 'People of Color' Don't Exist
Clutch magazine's Evette Dionne takes Zoe Saldana to task for saying, "There's no such thing as people of color," and suggests that she enroll in a Critical Race Theory class.
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Black Pastors to Star in Reality TV Show
Black America Web's Michael H. Cottman asks if pastors should sanctify the foolishness of reality TV in an insightful piece about an impending Oxygen Network reality show about, well, black pastors.

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