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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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John McCain Calls for Obama to Act in Syria
The former presidential candidate offered advice on Sunday's Meet the Press regarding the conflict.
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Stop-and-Frisk Whistle-Blower Cops Say They're Harassed
Officer Pedro Serrano says he's been targeted by co-workers since blowing the whistle on the NYPD.
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Chris Brown's Dad: I Don't Want Chris and Rihanna Together
Clinton Brown disapproves of the pop singers' rocky relationship.
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Obama's Top Correspondents' Dinner Jokes
For some, the POTUS was funnier than comedian Conan O'Brien.
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Does Young Black America Even Need a Leader?
Jonathan Lykes wonders on the Black Youth Project whether his generation looks to any one person to lead.
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Fighting Felon Disenfranchisement and Winning
In a victory for voters' rights, felon-disenfranchisement laws are being overturned in Deleware, and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous writes on the Huffington Post that it's high time for the rest of the country to follow suit.
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How Adoption Taught Me to Surrender
Adoption can be grueling for hopeful parents, writes Shonda Rhimes in the Daily Beast. Yet the process, says the creator of Scandal, brought her a deep understanding of the meaning of surrender.
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Countee Cullen to Be Inducted Into the NY Writers Hall of Fame
This year's additional honorees include Calvin Trillin, Alice McDermott, Walter Mosley and Marilyn Hacker.
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Women Shot in Chris Dorner Manhunt to Receive Millions in Settlement
Shot while delivering newspapers in front of a police official's home, the women have reached a settlement with the City of Los Angeles.
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Man Arrested in Ricin Case Targeting Obama
James Everett Dutschke was apprehended early Saturday morning in Mississippi.
