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	<title>AlumniRoundup.com &#187; Today in Black History</title>
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		<title>We Count! Black Agenda 2010 hosted by Tavis Smiley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aka Tito</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Eric Dyson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participants include Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West, Rev Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Angela Blackwell, Julianne Malveaux and others. They focused on challenges facing the African-American community and the nation, the question of whether America was in a "post-racial" era after the election of President Barack Obama, and the future of race relations.]]></description>
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		<title>Hattie McDaniel: A winner, segregated even at the awards night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hattie McDaniel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all Oscar winners are equal, as the story of <strong>Hattie McDaniel</strong> shows.]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Wonder Why February is Black History Month?</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/ever-wonder-why-february-is-black-history-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/ever-wonder-why-february-is-black-history-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Be More</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black history month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carter G. Woodson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omega Psi Phi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Today is Feb. 28, 2010. It is the last day of the month in the shortest month of the year. This is the month Black History is celebrated throughout the United States. Each year the question is asked, why February?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Live Without My Radio&#8221; by Angie Ange</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/i-cant-live-without-my-radio-by-angie-ange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Be More</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angie Ange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitsory of Black Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pioneers of black radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DC Radio's Angie Ange reflects on her love affair with Black Radio, it's rich history, global influence, and the way it is changing today.]]></description>
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		<title>Southeast Texas group works to save old black schoolhouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aka Tito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Schoolhouses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, a teacher in this one-room Jasper County schoolhouse faced a class full of rural African-American children and issued a challenge. "Every one of you is going to college,"]]></description>
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		<title>Gandy Dancers Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/gandy-dancers-documentary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/gandy-dancers-documentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Be More</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandy Dancers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Railroad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This documentary highlights the deep vocal history of Black railroad workers on the South.  The verbal traditions and cadences that coordinated and motivated these men to contribute to literally change the landscape of America.]]></description>
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		<title>African American WACs Served In a Unique Battalion</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/african-american-wacs-served-in-a-unique-battalion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/african-american-wacs-served-in-a-unique-battalion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African American Women in the Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was unique in the annals of World War II history. It was the only all-African American, all-female unit to serve overseas. Read about these amazing women!]]></description>
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		<title>Skip Gates on Black History Month</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/skip-gates-on-black-history-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/skip-gates-on-black-history-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RoundupRussy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black history month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skip Gates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Skip Gates Speaks on Black History Month]]></description>
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		<title>How a demand for lunch fueled the push for rights</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/how-a-demand-for-lunch-fueled-the-push-for-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/02/how-a-demand-for-lunch-fueled-the-push-for-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aka Tito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greensboro 4]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How the simple act of civil disobedience, most notably by a group of NCA&#038;T students, became fuel for the greater civil rights movement.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at Haiti through Historical Glasses</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/01/looking-at-haiti-through-historical-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2010/01/looking-at-haiti-through-historical-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabiola</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DuSable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Baptiste Du Sable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana Purchase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slave Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The History of Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many are simply unaware of Haiti’s historical context and contribution to the Americas.  The truth is we are so much more connected to Haiti than we know.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Malcolm X</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2009/05/happy-birthday-malcolm-x/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2009/05/happy-birthday-malcolm-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RoundupRussy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political figure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role model]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)]]></description>
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		<title>[Did you know] A black man invented the Venti Latte&#8230; kinda</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2009/04/did-you-know-the-links-between-coffee-and-black-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2009/04/did-you-know-the-links-between-coffee-and-black-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aka Tito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose Nicaud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When most people think of coffee, they think of the Starbucks crowd.   Not any more…  Learn about the true origins of coffee and how a slave used it to buy her freedom in New Orleans.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (October 1st)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/10/today-in-black-history-october-1st/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/10/today-in-black-history-october-1st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donnie Hathaway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Donny Hathaway was born October 1, 1946.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (September 23rd)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-september-23rd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-september-23rd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Coltrane]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jazz Saxophone player John Coltrane was born September 23, 1926.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (September 16th)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-september-16th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-september-16th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B.B. King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucille]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[B. B. King was born September 16, 1925]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (Sept. 15)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-sept-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/09/today-in-black-history-sept-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four School Girls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On September 15, 1963, four African American schoolgirls were killed in a bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (August 12)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On August 12, 1922, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington D.C. was dedicated as a national memorial.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (August 6th)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-6th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-6th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting Rights Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On August 6, 1965 the American Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (August 4th)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-4th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/08/today-in-black-history-august-4th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today in Black History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Black History (July 13th)</title>
		<link>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/07/today-in-black-history-july-13th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alumniroundup.com/2008/07/today-in-black-history-july-13th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NYC Draft Riots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>July 13, 1863 the New York City Draft Riots began</em>]]></description>
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