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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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Canada, Hide Your Strippers: Pacman Jones Signs with CFL Team
Good to know the recession isn't affecting the very best among us...
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AUDIO: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing Warns City Has More Rough Days Ahead
"We are at a point in the history of this city where we have a major responsibility, and a major opportunity to take this city from where it is to where it needs to go..."
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Remember the War in Afghanistan? There's a Progress Report Coming Out
And President Obama will have that as light reading as he continues his vacation...
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Rwandan Genocide Trial Begins in Finland
Francois Bazaramba is accused of planning and carrying out the murder of Tutsis, many of whom were women and children...
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VIDEO: AZ Pastor Doesn't Want President Obama Killed, Sort Of
He just hates him and hopes he dies of brain cancer like Ted Kennedy, preferably today...
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AG Holder, Justice Department Not Playing When It Comes to Civil Rights
Seven months on the job and Attorney General Eric Holder is commissioning the Civil Rights division of the DOJ to get back into the fray...
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Black Woman Wins Mayoral Race in Italian Town
Wait, it gets even more interesting...
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Ethiopian Troops Enter Somalia to Help Out
Ethiopian troops entered the town of Beledweyne to help subdue Islamist forces...
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Chris Brown Claims He Doesn't Remember Mollywhopping Rihanna
Mother claims her son has never in his life been a violent person...
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Obama Supporters Trying to Get Tough on Health Care
Between bus tours and campaign style events, supporters of health care reform are doing a little shouting of their own...

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