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The Preakness 2013: History-Making Accomplishments to Watch For at Pimlico

While every racing fan will have history on their minds on Saturday as they watch Orb attempt to capture the second leg of the Triple Crown, there are plenty of other horses and people involved in the Preakness Stakes who can potentially make history themselves.

Michelle Obama Encourages African-American Students To Stop Aspiring To Be "A Baller Or A Rapper"

Because this is apparently a week that involves a lot of me lowering my head slowly and deliberately to my desk a la Peggy Olson, First Lady Michelle Obama decided to trot out some very old talking points in her commencement address to the 2013 graduating class at Bowie State University: “Toda

Preakness Odds: Analyzing Race's Most Inaccurate Betting Lines

While oddsmakers usually seem to know what they're doing better than anyone else, there are certainly times when they miss the boat. Orb was installed as an early Kentucky Derby favorite, and while the public bet Revolutionary into the No. 1 position, the oddsmakers ultimately got that right.

Kansas Elected Official Stands By Using Racial Slur "100 Percent"

Kansas Board of Education member Steve Roberts (R), an elected official representing one-tenth of the state, defended on Tuesday his use of a racial epithet at a previous board meeting to “push the frontiers of political correctness.

2013 Preakness: Post Positions, Odds, Preview and Prediction for 138th Running

The Preakness Stakes committee decided the post positions for the nine-horse field on Wednesday afternoon, and the 2013 Run for the Black-Eyed Susans will be the 138th such race at Pimlico Race Course. 

All eyes will be on Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who drew the No.

Quick Hits: Injuries, Comebacks, Qualifying Offers

Major league baseball has made strides in increasing racial diversity but has yet to increase its hiring of females in the sport's upper echelons, reports Ronald Blum of the Associated Press.

Dave Bing will not stand for second term as mayor of stricken Detroit

Mayor says administration 'has done a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to prepare runway of success for this city'

The mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, announced on Tuesday that he will not seek a second term.

Only One Lawyer Who Argued Before The Supreme Court This Term Was African American

In one of the blockbuster cases of this term, the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to strike down the mechanism for ensuring diversity at colleges and universities, reasoning that the need for affirmative action has run its course.

Stop-and-frisk can only work after real police reform Bill de Blasio

As mayor, I would reform the police and end the misuse of police tactics that have made New York into something out of Dickens

New York City just passed two more milestones in the long battle of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, and both are ominous signs for the futur

Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American'

The American academic and firebrand campaigner talks about Britain's deep trouble, fighting white supremacy and where Obama is going wrong

Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems.