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I'm Creole. Why Do I Have South Asian DNA?
Tracing Your Roots: Several reasons could explain a questioner's surprising genetic testing results.
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School a Beacon of Hope in Nigeria
At a university in Yola, graduates offer a glimpse of a promising future in a strife-torn region.
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A Birmingham Prom 50 Years in the Making
Class of '63 finally gets a ball that was denied to those who participated in the Children's March.
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Intimate Look at the Williams Sisters
Director explains how Venus and Serena doc explores the way their enigmatic dad shaped their lives.
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Somali Forces Retake Town
The town, claimed on Wednesday, is the second taken by government troops as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Somalia's president, seeks to crush opposition fighters...
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BREAKING: Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
The former Giants star and Super Bow hero will serve 20 months in jail...
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Lockerbie Bomber Being Allowed to Die in Libya
Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who in 1988 killed 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, has terminal prostate cancer and is being allowed to die at home...
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Mr. President, The People Who Voted for You Are Not Joking
Despite the fact that they are going in on you comically via Elon James White's #DEMSinTHEmovies Twitter trend...
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Don Hewitt, '60 Minutes' Creator, Dies at 86
The winner of eight Emmy and two Peabody awards, Hewitt began working for CBS News as an associate director in 1948....
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Skee-Weeeeee Don't Play That!
Pinkies raised in fury, AKA sisters file a lawsuit against their president, Barbara McKinzie...
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76-Year Old MD Man Beaten While He Fished
One of the assailants admitted in his police interview that he did not care for the Black folk...
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Obama Feeling Good about Mideast Peace Chances
"There has been movement in the right direction," Obama said. "If all sides are willing to move off of the rut that we're in currently, then I think there is an extraordinary opportunity to make real progress..."
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First Black Ref in NFL Passes Away
After suffering a career-ending knee injury in a 1952 college All-Star game, Burl Toler turned to officiating and was hired by the NFL in 1965...
