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Students weather final days of school

(Bill O'Leary / WASHINGTON POST)

Fifth-graders at Shepherd Elementary in D.C. prepare to leave behind the school year and embark on their summer journeys and the prospect of sixth grade.

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Still from 'Dear White People' trailer

Dear White People: Hollywood, are you listening?

“Dear White People,” a frank look at race and identity, hopes to fill a void in Hollywood.

SUFFOLK, VA - JAN 30: Therbia Parker donated artifacts to the planned but never built Slavery Museum and can't get the foundation to return them. He donated 95 items valued at $75,000. Photograph of slave shackles from the 1850s on Monday January 31, 2012 in Suffolk, Virginia. (Photo by Jay Paul, for The Washington Post)

Jeremy Scott, Adidas and fashion’s race problem

A shoe that features shackles around the ankles is pulled from the Adidas label.

SILVER SPRING, MD, JANUARY 25:  Musician, Mike Auldridge poses for a portrait at his Silver Spring, MD home on January 25, 2011.  Auldridge is shown holding a dobro, which he is renowned for playing.  (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Mike Auldridge receives NEA National Heritage Fellowship

Plus, more from the world of pop music.

This model image, provided by Eisenhower Memorial Commission, shows the proposed Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial to be built in Washington. The family of Dwight D. Eisenhower responds to Frank Gehry’s design changes to the Eisenhower Memorial but still voices objections to elements of design. (AP Photo/

‘Monument Wars’ Puts Eisenhower Memorial Controversy in Context

Author examines the politics of remembrance.

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Top picks for summer TV

TV critic Hank Stuever’s guide for what’s worth watching this summer.

Art Basel 2012

The international art fair in Basel, Switzerland, takes place June 14-17.

Summer Movie Preview

The Post’s Michael O’Sullivan comments on the films to know about this summer.

Summer arts preview: Theater, dance, film and more

As the temperatures climb outdoors, seek cultural engagement (and often, air-conditioned bliss) at this sampling of summer arts offerings.

George Bellows at the National Gallery

George Bellows at the National Gallery

‘1812: A Nation Emerges’

The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition “1812: A Nation Emerges” explores the events and personalities of a war that helped give a young country a sense of unity and pride.

Revisiting Watergate

PHOTOS | Key figures from the Watergate scandal reconvened June 11 at the Watergate Office Building in Washington.

Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial

The world-famous architect has adjusted his original design in response to criticism from the Eisenhower family.

Advice

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Husband wants to skip first trimester

He took his wife’s miscarriage especially hard and didn’t want to know about the next pregnancy until the second trimester. Now, she’s pregnant again, and she wants to tell him.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Wife dreads exhausting visits with extrovert husband’s family

Carolyn Hax’s advice: For introvert, quantity of social time comes at expense of quality.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Does ‘I need less’ trump ‘I need more’?

Carolyn Hax’s advice: It’s awful to make people spend more time with you against their will.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Impressions about therapy

Carolyn Hax’s advice: I suggest therapy when I see spinning wheels, and skip suggesting it where I see self-motivated progress.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

How to cure the blahs

The question waiting for an answer is, why don’t you feel like you’re living the right life for you?

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Repayment due

He helped with the reader’s finances and said no payback was necessary.

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

Different views of their relationship

He says he doesn’t know what love feels like. She isn’t sure what this means for their future.

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Magazine

The wedding dress

Alexandria, VA - April 27, 2012:  Alison 'Ali' Manson and George Patterson (GP) Manson III take their first dance during their wedding reception at River Farm in Alexandria, VA on April 27, 2012. (Photo by Joseph Victor Stefanchik for The Washington Post)

A treasured heirloom bonds seven area women

The ‘new’ Washington dinner party

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 2: A plate of Maine lobster hors d'oeuvres at a party hosted by rising party hostess Juleanna Glover at her home in Washington, DC on March 2, 2012. Glover co-founded the strategy firm the Ashcroft Group with former Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)

Forget making history. Today, it’s all about agendas.

How to play the Post Hunt

Our day of brainteasing puzzles returns for a fifth year! Be sure to join Dave Barry, Tom Shroder, Gene Weingarten and thousands of others in downtown Washington, D.C., later today. The Hunt begins at noon sharp, and lasts for four hours.

Ruination

SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 13, 2012 - Photo 1, south elevation, Carter's Grove. (Photo by Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
NOTE - DO NOT CROP - AF

How a wealthy tech pioneer and a precious Colonial estate in Virginia met a sorry fate.

The ambassador of contrasts

WASHINGTON, DC - August 25, 2011:   The Kingdom of Bahrain Ambassador to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, greets  guests during an iftar dinner at the Bahrain Embassy on Thursday August 25, 2011 in Washington, DC.   (Matt McClain for the Washington Post)

As the first Jewish envoy appointed by an Arab nation, Houda Nonoo was supposed to represent Bahrain’s tolerance. Then came the Arab Spring.

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Goalie Hope Solo helped the U.S. women’s soccer team shut out Brazil to win a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.

Title IX turns 40, with good results

Forty years after the Title IX law passed, lots more high school girls, college women are athletes.

Allie Marsinko, 5, of Connellsville, Pa., cools off by running through a sprinkler at the Mall.

Summer is off to a sweltering start

Washington gets a heat advisory from the National Weather Service on the second day of summer.

In “Brave,” Princess Merida puts a bow, her favorite birthday gift, to work as her parents, Queen Elinor and King Fergus, at right, watch.

Pixar princess isn’t one to be rescued

Princess Merida is no Disney princess. She’s not waiting for Prince Charming to save the day.

Peeps, a baby robin nursed back to health by Karin Caston, sleeps on one of the woman’s cats.

Baby bird makes friends with cats

Who says cats and birds can’t get along? Not these Michigan cats.

Chinese astronaut Liu Yang donned her spacesuit before the launch lf Shenzhou 9.

Female astronaut is Chinese pioneer

Liu Yang, a 34-year-old air force pilot, joined two male astronauts on a mission to the Tiangong 1 space module.

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