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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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Shots Not Heard Round the World in NOLA
This witness to the Mother's Day mayhem that injured 19 wants to know: Why don't more people care?
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Malcolm X's Grandson Killed in Mexico
There are reports that Malcolm Shabazz was thrown off a building or shot as he was being robbed in Tijuana.
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Wet Seal Settles Racial-Discrimination Case
The complaint charged the company with firing black management employees to protect its "brand image."
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How a 'Proud' Lesbian Became a Pol's Wife
She made the transition "by letting myself be as free as I felt when I went natural," Chirlane McCray told Essence magazine.
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Ramsey: Criminal Past 'Helped Me Become the Man I Am'
He not only admits to the domestic violence but links it directly to his efforts to rescue three Cleveland women.
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Reading, Writing and Rape: Sexual Assaults on Campus Must End
In a piece for BlackAmericaWeb, Tom Joyner says that these drug- and alcohol-fueled incidents have gone too far, and parents need to step in and drill into children's heads that sexual violence is never OK.
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An Open Letter to Charles Ramsey
Before the domestic violence reports surfaced, Eris Zion Venia Dyson analyzed the now-fallen Internet star's racial insights at the For Harriet blog.
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Student-Loan Debt: Time to Get Serious
Writing at the Huffington Post, Rep. Karen Bass makes the case for a comprehensive fix to the student-loan debt crisis. For one thing, student-loan interest rates will double on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
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Report: Charles Ramsey Repeat Domestic Abuser
According to the Smoking Gun, he served jail time for assaulting his wife on more than one occasion.
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