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Lena Dunham (AP/Arthur Mola)

What Dunham’s defenders are missing: Her story about her sister could have been a teaching opportunity

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Donald Sterling watches his team beat the Denver Nuggets in Denver on April 29, 2006. LaLa Vasquez, right, fiancee of Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony, reacts as time runs out in the game. (AP/David Zalubowski)

Modern racists just repeat conservative talking points: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the ugly face of GOP policies

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Phillip Seymour Hoffman (AP/Victoria Will)

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s hard road to greatness

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Wendy Davis (AP/Eric Gay)

The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed

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Leslie Jones, LaKendra Tookes

“SNL’s” best move yet: Hiring black female writers

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Barack Obama talks with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as Michelle Obama looks on during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, Soweto, South Africa, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP/Matt Dunham)

The sexism of “selfie-gate”: America’s dangerous suspicion of women working with men

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Michelle Obama, with daughters Sasha and Malia. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all

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A mourner holds an obituary displaying a picture of shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

I could have been Renisha McBride

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Naked screaming Oprah dress treats black women’s bodies as placeholders

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No, child support can’t be a choice

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Tina Fey, Kenan Thompson (NBC)

“SNL’s” gender equality movement left black women out

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My happy Detroit

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