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Guaranteed losers in a bankrupt city: Detroit's promised pensions in doubt

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Madiba lives: Who is marching in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela?

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Review: Art Basel goes 'Afropolitan'

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How Mandela helped create the path for President Obama

ANALYSIS - They are in many ways kindred spirits, patient, confident men who rose to power, employing their unifying styles…
/ December 6, 2013

Ted Cruz trashed for paying tribute to Nelson Mandela on Facebook

OPINION - The Mandela bashing is a moment that should go down in history as the moment the tea party…
/ December 6, 2013

How do we keep Nelson Mandela's legacy alive?

OPINION - His passing, his home-going, his return to his village, his rest in peace and power only represents another…
/ December 6, 2013

Michael Steele: South Africa stands taller thanks to Nelson Mandela

OPINION - He empowered generations of South Africans not just to dream but to do. His vision of equality became…
/ December 6, 2013

Why we have to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s revolutionary past

OPINION - Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner turned statesman. And he was a freedom fighter, too. And we must…
/ December 6, 2013

How white South Africans came to terms with Mandela

OPINION - February 11, 1990 saw the world celebrating the release of a former terrorist to some in South Africa,…
/ December 6, 2013

NBC's Brian Williams: My meeting with Mandela

OPINION - The morning after his election as president of South Africa -- I was his first appointment of the…
/ December 5, 2013

Nelson Mandela dead at 95: How the late icon brought black America and Africa together

OPINION - Although the 95-year-old giant is no longer with us physically, leaving us after a period of deteriorating health,…
/ December 5, 2013

Morehouse College makes GQ's 'douchiest colleges' list

OPINION - Unlike the other 'douchey' schools on the list, the pride exhibited by Morehouse men has been earned by…
/ December 5, 2013

#FastTailedGirls: Hashtag has a painful history behind it

OPINION - Fass is nothing more than a synonym for whore. Nothing more than a polite calling card, a proverbial…
/ December 3, 2013

Obama uncle deportation hearing is a teachable moment on immigration reform

OPINION - While the president’s detractors, xenophobes that they are, always tell him to go back to Kenya, they may…
/ December 3, 2013

Working towards an AIDS-free world

ESSAY - HIV and AIDS are not someone else’s issues to deal with -- it’s all of ours. Let's join…
/ December 2, 2013