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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
Ask Demetria: A suddenly insecure boyfriend may mean that something's changed in your relationship.
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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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No 2nd-Class Families
The plights of African Americans and immigrants in America aren't so different, and NAACP leader Benjamin Todd Jealous writes on the Huffington Post that blacks should support the universal struggle for equality.
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Memory of My Absent Dad Pushed My Single Mother
Raised by her single mother, Sharda Sekaran reflects in a piece for Ebony.com on how her absent father's legacy of intelligence pushed her mother to push her.
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Watch This: Kid President Wishes All a Happy Mother's Day
The adorable Internet star tells moms that they're loved.
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Bill Clinton Tells Howard Grads They Have a Gift, Choice
The former leader delivered the commencement address at the HBCU on Saturday.
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Lauryn Hill, Girl, Stop It!
Michael Arceneaux couldn't believe his ears when Hill told a judge that she was the descendant of slaves, and that's why she couldn't pay her taxes on her healthy income. At Ebony, Arceneaux begs the troubled singer to come back to reality -- you know, where people pay their bills and such.
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Is Janelle Monae Revealing Her Sexuality on New Song?
Some are speculating that Janelle Monae might be talking about her own sexuality in her new song, "Q.U.E.E.N." But writer Andreana Clay of Queer Black Feminist writes that she'd rather focus on Monae's self-proclaimed status of being an oddball.
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Hey, White People, Here's How You're Racist
On the York Daily Record, attorney Dawn Cutaia says that white folks don't have to be part of the KKK to be racist. It can be as easy as laughing at a black person's ethnic name or not hiring them because of it.
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