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Dominique Friend, Sickle Cell Disease advocate and author.

Living with Sickle Cell: An inspirational journey

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Floyd Mayweather and Shantel Jackson

Is Floyd Mayweather causing his baby mama drama?

Demetria L. Lucas
OPINION - How could the boxing champion get caught in Instagram photos in the bed of his former partner?...
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People sit in the rain and listen as President Barack Obama delivers the 129th commencement speech at Morehouse College Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. In a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, the President told graduates of the historically black college to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

No 'excuse' for simplifying Obama's Morehouse message

James Braxton Peterson
OPINION - Interestingly enough, both the president’s detractors as well as his supporters will seize on the same soundbite from his address to the 2013 graduating class at Morehouse College...
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Marco McMillian (Image via 'Marco McMillian for Facebook)

Speaking up for slain LGBT mayoral candidate

Sharon Lettman-Hicks
OPINION - It’s been 82 days since the body of Marco McMillian, a black mayoral candidate, who was also gay, was found on the Mississippi River levee, unclothed...
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Andres Hemenez (L) and Martina Hemenez hold signs reading 'Stop Deportation Now' as they and others participate in a rally calling on President Barack Obama to immediately suspend deportations and for Congress to pass an immigration reform that’s inclusive of all 11 million undocumented people in the U.S. on May 11, 2013 in Homestead, Florida. The rally is part of what is being called a rolling fast in different places throughout the nation over the course of the next two months to bring what organizers say is a moral, prophetic voice to the immigration debate. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Are we deporting our democracy?

Gihan Perera
OPINION - Why are we choosing to repeat the mistakes of a generation ago with a new set of aspiring Americans?...
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Malcolm X’s triumphs still trump his tragedies

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
OPINION - Eighty years after the birth and forty eight years after the assassination of black nationalist leader Malcolm X, the tragedy and triumph of his life and work still clouds and uplifts us...
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Payday loans: A debt trap in disguise

Dedrick Muhammad & Charles Lowery, NAACP
OPINION - Are payday loans a good source of emergency cash? Thanks to misleading marketing, many of its consumers unfortunately think so....
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The release of e-mails related to the administration's response to the Benghazi attack show how little of a role United States Ambassador Susan Rice played in the entire controversy, making it easier for the President Obama to tap his longtime friend as National Security Adviser sometime over the next three years.

Could GOP's Benghazi push benefit Susan Rice?

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - The release of e-mails related to the administration's response to the Benghazi attack show how little of a role United States Ambassador Susan Rice played in the entire controversy, making it easier for the President Obama to tap his longtime friend...
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Anti-poverty programs

Charities will bear the brunt of cuts to food programs

Bob Aiken, President and CEO, Feeding America
OPINION - Late Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill that includes severe cuts to anti-hunger programs. The bill includes $21 billion in cuts to the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program...
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Boehner Fiscal Cliff

Heritage to GOP: Don't govern, scandalize!

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - Finally, we have something out of the Heritage Foundation that is entirely accurate...
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Obamacare

Why Republicans are still obsessed with repealing Obamacare

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - House Republicans held their 37th vote to scrap all or parts of 'Obamacare,' illustrating a determined campaign to dump a law that has been ratified by not only Congress and the president, but also the U.S. Supreme Court and American voters...
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