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by Hank Willis Thomas onFebruary 16, 2012
"Soul" is explored in this excerpt from Rebecca Walker's tome of essays decoding our swagger.
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by Helena Andrews onJanuary 13, 2012
Single-Minded: What are we really trying to say with all these "S--t People Say" videos?
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by Helena Andrews onOctober 28, 2011
Single-Minded: A Q&A with the leaders of an Ohio University campaign against offensive garb.
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September 23, 2011
This week on the Confab: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Helena Andrews about Troy Davis' death, capital punishment and whether or not there's a trending-topic conspiracy on Twitter.
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by Helena Andrews onSeptember 21, 2011
As the Troy Davis case takes over the news, one writer can't help thinking of her cousin on death row.
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by Helena Andrews onJuly 15, 2011
Journalist Mac McClelland's essay about how violent sex cured her post-Haiti PTSD unleashed a torrent of criticism. Some say she doesn't have a right to the stories of Haitian rape victims.
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by Helena Andrews onJuly 1, 2011
Single-Minded: I've always dreamed of having a white wedding. My still-unmarried lesbian mother never had that luxury.
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by Helena Andrews onMay 26, 2011
But I'm pretty sure she didn't know that I existed.
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by Helena Andrews onMay 18, 2011
Single-Minded: When Don Lemon announced that he was gay, it made big news. But is this kind of revelation really so shocking?
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by Helena Andrews onMay 5, 2011
Single-Minded: Just as the prince and princess married in a fantasy wedding, Barack Obama rode in to slay the dragon.
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The former baseball star posted the personal information of a woman he's charged with assaulting.
By pleading the Fifth, the person at the scandal's center didn't quell the uproar.
His Morehouse gradation speech reignited the debate over his posture toward blacks.
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