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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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Exec on Bad AIDS Drugs: 'Who Cares? It's Just Blacks Dying'
Ranbaxy Laboratories has pleaded guilty to selling adulterated drugs. Fortune has an account of what one insider said were internal attitudes toward the India-based company's most vulnerable victims.
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Did Jay Harris Actually Choose Rap Over Football?
It seems that Michigan State had a hand in the athlete-artist's surprising career decision.
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Obama Calls Staffer Shot While Caught in Crossfire
Organizing for Action's Gregory Jackson and the president discussed his firsthand lesson about the importance of gun-violence prevention.
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Details of Malcolm Shabazz's Death Revealed
Update: The men who beat Malcolm Shabazz to death used a bat or stick during the attack.
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Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
The civil rights leader's thoughts on love, lynching and the law.
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AP, IRS, Benghazi: How Can Americans Trust Obama?
Writing at the Guardian, conservative blogger Crystal Wright weighs in on the various controversies swirling around the Obama administration and determines that Republicans -- and Americans in general, for that matter -- only want answers.
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Report: Evening Cable News Lacks Diversity
At ColorLines, Jorge Rivas looks at a report revealing a dramatic lack of diversity on evening cable news shows. He quotes a Latino leader who says this gives the impression that minorities are not making positive contributions to the country.
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Cleveland: It's No Longer Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Against the backdrop of the Cleveland kidnapping saga and the heroism of rescuer Charles Ramsey, Nikki Woods explores at BlackAmericaWeb.com how the concept of community, when everyone knew their neighbor, has been lost.
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Kicked Off Plane for Singing 'I Will Always Love You'
A pilot stopped in Kansas City, Mo., on a flight from Los Angeles to New York after a passenger refused to stop singing the song made famous by Whitney Houston.
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Angelina's Double Mastectomy: What Black Women Can Learn
A recent study found that African-American women not diagnosed with breast cancer were less likely than white women to get genetic testing for gene abnormalities, despite recommendations from their doctors.
