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Haiti earthquake 2 years later: Stranded children in adoption limbo
4:52 PM on 01/09/2012
NBC NEWS - Ron Allen follows the story of a group of Haitian children awaiting adoption by American parents when the devastating earthquake struck two years ago...
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Philly mayor: flash mobbers 'damaging their race'
7:52 AM on 08/12/2011
PHILADELPHIA - Philly Mayor Michael Nutter, in what many have called a "Bill Cosby," moment, calls out the city's African American youth, and their parents...
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Reporter's notebook: An African-American telling African stories
10:07 AM on 10/06/2010
OPINION - Every time I travel to Africa, there's a very powerful desire to be able to narrow down that hopelessly broad identification, "African-American," at least just a bit...
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Slideshow: Surprising beauty amidst struggle in Sierra Leone
8:39 AM on 09/09/2010
SLIDESHOW - I'll remember a place full of natural beauty, the ocean, the mountains, the clear night skies....
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NFL star never forgets his Sierra Leone homeland
9:00 AM on 09/08/2010
OPINION - Madieu Williams is a guy who gives millions from his own pocket, because he's concerned about poverty in the developing world...
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Haitian children adjust to new life in America
10:45 AM on 08/02/2010
VIDEO - "It has been a journey," says Missy Wilson, an adoptive mother. "It has had its great, great days. It has had its very difficult days."...
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Africa marks international day celebrating children
2:39 PM on 06/17/2010
SIERRA LEONE - June 16, the International Day of the African Child, is an annual moment of recognition that has been observed across the continent since 1992...
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One 'dialogue' in a long conversation about race
4:11 PM on 07/30/2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -The most intriguing moment in the confrontation between Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley was when Crowley came to understand that the man in the house was in fact who he said he was, that he was in his own home and that there had...
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Haiti earthquake 2 years later: Stranded children in adoption limbo
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William Daley resignation signals less conciliatory Barack Obama
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'Real Housewives of Atlanta' recap: Cynthia's crumbling marriage takes center stage
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Beyoncé baby: Will Jay-Z change his tune now that he has a daughter?
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Cordray appointment vital for minority communities
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