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With Attacks on Foreigners, South Africa Exposes Its Anti-Africa Bias
South Africa is struggling with the diplomatic and economic fallout from a recent episode of xenophobic violence that saw seven foreigners killed, scores wounded and thousands of people displaced. Several African governments have sharply criticized South Africa’s tardy response and sent buses and planes to repatriate their citizens. Some threatened to retaliate against South African…
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: A Fight of Extremes
Saturday’s long-awaited Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao bout is a fight of differences. Of excess and access. Of past and present. Of crime and punishment (or lack thereof). Of the loved and the hated. It’s a fight that ultimately exposes gaps in how we think, how we feel and how we live. It underscores cultural chasms that are…
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Black College Students Seize Rare Chance for Career Development Through Travel-Abroad Initiative
Few African Americans will ever get the chance to visit China—a country that’s modernizing at a dynamic pace and becoming a global center for technology and commerce. So Kamari Wright and Rachel John Kazungu jumped on an opportunity. They applied for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Emerging Leaders: U.S.-China Study Abroad Program and began their…
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How a Single Dad Manages the Stepdad in His Daughters’ Lives
I am a single dad. I have twin daughters whom I would describe as thoughtful, smart, funny, spirited, respectful, (insert adjective) young women whom I love more dearly than my own breath. I am also a weekend dad, not by design but by circumstance. I have learned to let go of my desire to be…
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Ga. Teacher Killed in Car Accident While Driving to School to Chaperone the Prom
A Georgia high school teacher lost her life on Saturday after a car she was driving collided with a vehicle carrying two students from her school, the New York Daily News reports. Both parties were en route to the school prom, where O’Brien was going to be a chaperone. Leah O’Brien, a teacher at Lakeside…
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Police Actually Do Show Restraint—When They’re Facing Armed White Guys
As a ceaseless flat line of tragedies snuffs out the lives of young brothers, one peculiar parallel trend emerges: For every unarmed black man who dies at the hands of white police officers, it seems as if there’s one armed white man who survives such an encounter. In a way, that flies in the face…
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Urban Gardens Provide an Oasis of Hope and Health
With nearly 47 million Americans living under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, access to affordable fresh food is still a daily struggle for some, especially for those living in so-called food deserts, areas with limited access to healthy fruits and vegetables. But in cities across the country, where infrastructure is crumbling and vacant…
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NY Teen Who Lost Everything in Hurricane Is Accepted at 7 Ivy League Schools
In the latter part of 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed the Baldwin, N.Y., family home of Daria Rose. The Long Island teen, then a sophomore in high school, lost everything she had accumulated in her young life: her clothes, photos, furniture—all gone in an instant. “It was hard because it’s really unpredictable when you don’t have…
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Boxing’s Last Big Bout?
Is this how boxing ends—not with a whimper but a bang? The May 2 bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has been six years in the making. In that time, there’s been a flirtation with retirement and a brush with the law for Mayweather, and political office and album-making for Pacquiao, while their teams…
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2nd Woman Fears Baby May Have Been Stolen From St. Louis Hospital Nearly 50 Years Ago
Brenda Stewart felt a pang of sadness when she heard about the bittersweet reunion of a woman and her mother, who was told in 1964 that the newborn girl had actually died. She was struck not just by the tale’s inherent sadness but also because she believes the same thing happened to her about the…