June 2011
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The impact of drinking soda everyday →
Sometimes we don’t think about everything we put into our bodies, including me. Here’s a reminder of why its important
Jun 28th
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Is Chocolate City over? →
Jun 27th
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R&B at Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Telling it... →
Jun 27th
DC Chillin' - Lafayette Square (by philliefan99) →
Jun 23rd
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More Americans Should Go To Parenting Classes... →
Jun 23rd
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For new life, blacks head South →
Interesting, though not wholly original, piece in the New York Times about black people picking up stakes to head back South.
Jun 22nd
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Jun 20th
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Some of Va.'s 'Brown v. Board' college grants go... →
Seems like a stretch to include white students when the state’s public schools shut rather than accept black students.
Jun 20th
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Class, not race, a divider for many in D.C. →
Jun 20th
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Obama impersonator pulled offstage after making... →
Jun 20th
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PGCC Again Ranked Among Top 25 African-American... →
Jun 14th
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Black Role Models Engineer Future of 3rd-5th... →
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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First 48: HBCU Yard Edition by Roundup Russy —... →
Jun 11th
Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
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Did Malcolm X Hate Women? →
Malcolm’s complicated relationship with his wife and other women.
Jun 10th
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Throwaway people →
Getting beyond the stigma of being a convicted felon. A powerful piece by a strong sista. Go Patrice!
Jun 9th
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Black Generation Gap Event: Scenes from the... →
Jun 9th
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Ethio­pian Yellow Pages: Life, by the book →
Jun 9th
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You Left Out the Part About ... - NYTimes.com →
Hollywood’s glaring misinformation.
Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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First Lady Visits D.C. Preschool  →
Jun 8th
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Milloy: the Cuban and American divide →
Jun 8th
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Prince and the Evolution: A Photo History →
Jun 7th
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Thousands of jobless youth, a fatal formula  →
Jun 6th
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Plessy and Ferguson: Descendants of a divisive... →
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Why is the NAACP fighting African Americans? - The... →
One man’s view.
Jun 5th
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Teens Run DC mentoring program perseveres at... →
Jun 4th
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VIDEO: Males vs. Men "Extended Web Clip from Men... →
Jun 4th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 4th
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Another season of The Wire? →
Jun 3rd
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Women told to remove bras at jail, $1M civil suit... →
Jun 3rd
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“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
–  MAYA ANGELOU  (via afrosandpeeptoes)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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National Spelling Bee: Meet our local spellers -... →
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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Quitting your job for a new adventure →
Jun 1st
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'Just Wanna Testify' →
A new book by novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage. This time the subject is vampires.
Jun 1st
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Freedom Riders recall yesterday's fright, today's... →
Jun 1st
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Why Fashion Keeps Tripping Over Race →
Simply being black in an industry that remains stubbornly homogeneous in many respects remains a feat worth getting excited about?
Jun 1st