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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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Anti-Prop 8 Legislation Moved to 2012 Ballot
Some wanted it on the ballot as soon as 2010, but the leaders from Equality California put the kibosh on that...
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Ex-Nebraska Star Lawrence Phillips Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
With all the health care "debate," you might forgot some Black folks can be crazy as well...
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Women of the Ivy Persuasion Get Offers for Eggs
Jennifer Anyaegbunam writes that a joke among cash-strapped co-eds of the Ancient Eight is considered a very lucrative business with real medical risks...
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Racists Stay Classy with Georgia Rep. David Scott
Why break a sweat over being civil when you can just spraypaint a swastika on something?..
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Clinton Tries Telling Nigeria What to Do
Secretary Clinton on Wednesday urged oil-rich Nigeria to embrace broad political reform and ease tensions that have led to sectarian violence and disrupted energy production in the Niger Delta...
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VIBE Ain't Dead Yet
Let's be honest: It's not like they could end with that Christina Milian/The Dream cover, right?
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Missed Obama's Town Hall?
Want some town hall coverage in 140-characters or less? Sweet...
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Lost in Translation: Hillary Ethered Student Due to Poor Translation
It appears the person translating for the Secretary of State PUNK'D her...
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Our President is Like a Lucky Black Cartoon Cat
So sayeth Niall Ferguson of the Financial Times...

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