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		<title>Weekly Link Round Up: Japan, Feminism and Sexual Violence, Black Politics, Mind/Body Health &amp; More!</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2011/03/18/march-18-weekly-link-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything You Want to Know about Japan -     To kick off this week&#8217;s Weekly Round Up, here is a nice overview from The Nation on where to donate to help with the Japanese disaster relief effort: How to Help Japan: -      A simple and direct case for the non-existence of nuclear facilities from the Huffington [...]
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		<title>Weekly Link Round Up: Women, Gang-Rape, Lent, BIG, Yoga, Academia and Spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hey folks, since I am no longer on facebook for the forseeable time being, a lot of folks have asked me to continue to post links to my favorite articles that I come across during the week. Since I no longer have my facebook wall to facilitate that project, I&#8217;ve decided to post weekly [...]
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		<title>The Middle-East, Detroit and The Need for Political Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of these non-violent protests happening around the world, one of the things that have been on my mind, is Martin Luther King Jr.’s little known radical pacifist theology. Few people know, that King adamantly opposed the Vietnam War and all forms of military violence, in addition to being opposed to violent protest strategies. [...]
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		<title>How Western Arrogance is Handicapping the Haitian Relief Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As report after report comes in from Haiti, the media repeatedly tells its stunned public that there is &#8220;no equipment available anywhere&#8221; to dig out the victims and no help in sight. The Haitians only hope, the media tells us, is the philanthropic generosity of Western nations. The help of international aid organizations as well [...]
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		<title>How You Can Help Haiti Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon Haiti suffered one of it&#8217;s largest natural disaster&#8217;s on record&#8230; With reports that the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, has been destroyed, the devastation that has yet to be unburied is unimaginable. Today, as most American&#8217;s get up and go on about their day&#8217;s as usual&#8230; many Haitians must face the somber reality that [...]
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		<title>Uptown Notes: Dear Old Morehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Old Morehouse, I’ve been trying to avoid writing this for some time now. As an alumnus of the institution, it’s hard for me to see you in such condition. Many of my fellow alumni complained of your disrepair and your besmirched image when they heard about students being beaten for their sexuality, shooters graduating, [...]
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		<title>Why its Easier for You to Raise Money for Breast Cancer (and not HIV/AIDS)&#8230;</title>
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		<title>Academics of Color Organizing around Violence in Chicago</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of days most of us have been overwhelmed by the influx of brutal images and video of the Derrion Albert beating. What I&#8217;m not going to do today is provide links to the video or even pontificate about what this plague of violence does to black communities. Honestly, one of the [...]
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Media Blitz or Why Obama is a Flake about Race</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So if you haven&#8217;t noticed that President Obama has been on a media blitz for the last couple of days&#8230; you must be living [under a rock?] The most entertaining of these appearances was Obama&#8217;s visit to the Letterman show last night. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I think Obama&#8217;s refusal to engage race is problematic. [...]
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		<title>Where is the Black Liberal Agenda?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we all had the opportunity to watch Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare speech: A couple of weeks ago I asked, where is Obama&#8217;s Political Saavy? And in the above speech I believe not only did he find it, but he remembered what the people who voted him into office [overwhelmingly] mandated. So needless to say [...]
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