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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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Torture Prosecutions May Target Low-Level Offenders
Because, obviously, the higher-ups didn't know nothin' about it...
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Mentally Ill Offenders Burden Juvenile System
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders...
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Swine Flu Prepares to Make a Comeback
And just when we were getting over being shook when somebody sneezed in a public place...
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Lucky Number 70: Tiger Wins at Bridgestone
The victory marks the 70 time in his PGA career that Tiger Woods made other golfers feel inadequate...
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40 Inmates Hospitalized in CA Prison Riot
The trouble started after a heated discussion over Obamacare...
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A Saint Goes Marching In
Derrick Tabb of New Orleans is giving kids a good old-fashioned tune up: With a tuba...
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VIDEO: GOP to Heather Blish: Stop Snitchin'
A "mom from a few blocks away" ran a bit of roughshod over an Iowa town hall meeting and it seems she was not just a concerned citizen...
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Jobless Rate Falls from 9.5 to 9.4%
Time to party! Not really, but let's take any improvement we can get...
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AUDIO: Preview - Whitney Houston "Million Dollar Bill"
A snippet of a track off Whitney's forthcoming album...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Expected Today
It's a truly sad state of (GOP) affairs when an underqualified woman of color uses all her empathetic ethnic guile to ascend to the highest bench in the land...
