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Home cooking plays a treasured role in African American culture, I know. But give me a restaurant meal any day

Forget supermodels, it is She of the coveted vote whom I most desire.

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If you're spending Thanksgiving with friends instead of with family, you're not alone

Guardian: Uday was a monster even by the standards of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Ladies' restroom manners are deplorable.

A defendant in the case argues that demanding accountability of his prosecutor is nothing like what she did to him

I can't afford to stay in my marriage -- but how will I afford to leave it?

I wish she'd consult a specialist, but she thinks she knows what's best.

"But is your mom going to the beach?"

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I've spent the last three years learning how to survive without him. Now I'm learning to live for the both of us

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The four-hour documentary may be the biggest test yet of our willingness to separate the art and the artist