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Obama at Morehouse: Try Another Listen
You might find that attacks on his commencement speech -- a hit among graduates -- missed the mark.
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Oklahoma and Defense of Big Government
The GOP's notion of "self-reliance" won't hold up after disaster hits one of the nation's poorest states.
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'Scandal' Withdrawal: It's a Real Thing
Here's what the ABC drama's obsessed fans plan to do with their time now that its second season is over.
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Yes, Fried-Chicken Jokes Are Racist
Golfer Sergio Garcia's jab at Tiger Woods is subtle racism at its finest.
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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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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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