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What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
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10 Pieces of Advice for Postcollege Life
She Matters: This writer wishes someone had told her these things at her commencement.
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Celebrating Race in the Renaissance
Image of the Week: What's the meaning behind this 16th-century cameo featuring a black and a white face?
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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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Obama Alleged Scandals: The Public Should Yawn
The four alleged scandals faced by the administration don't pass the smell test for a public flogging of the president, argues Earl Ofari Hutchinson in a blog for EURWeb, because there is no clear evidence that he had any knowledge or hand in the missteps.
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Watch This: Miguel's Stage Dive Goes All Wrong
The fans who were kicked during the singer's Billboard Awards performance are reportedly fine, so it's safe to laugh at this mishap caught on tape.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Highest-Paid Athlete
He was paid $90 million in the past year, none of it from endorsements.
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Michelle Obama Has Retired Her Bangs
The first lady revealed a new look for her commencement speech at Bowie State University: side-swept bangs.
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Watch This: President Obama Delivers Morehouse Commencement Address
After a tough week in Washington, the president delivered strong words of encouragement to more than 500 graduates on a rainy Sunday.
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Farrakhan to Detroit: Investment Needed in City
The Nation of Islam leader urged pastors and the majority black population to take steps to revitalize the struggling city.
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Fixing Journalism's Class and Color Crisis
Farai Chideya writes a trenchant piece at the Nation about the face of journalism today, saying that we are witnessing the resegregation of the American media.
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NAACP: Respecting Black Farmers
Writing at the Huffington Post, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin T. Jealous checks in on a debate raging around a court settlement for black farmers, contending that there is no way to make up for the decades of discrimination that crippled the group's proud history.
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When Are Kids Ready to Handle Life's Heavier Issues?
Arguing that he has taken a firm stance against teaching his 6-year-old daughter from a deficit model, Shawn Taylor writes at Ebony.com that he is prepared to explain the social ills she will confront during her lifetime.
