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		<title>The Politics of Renaming&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people describe watching &#8220;reality&#8221; dating shows as synonymous to watching a train crash&#8230; you know you shouldn&#8217;t be watching&#8230; in fact, you know its really horrible that you are watching and that it goes against everything you &#8220;stand&#8221; for&#8230; and yet&#8230; you just can&#8217;t turn away. As for me, I&#8217;m pretty much able to [...]


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		<title>Three Things Women Can Learn from Men About Dating</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/11/20/three-things-women-can-learn-from-men-about-dating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t consider myself a relationship blogger by any stretch of the imagination&#8230; but as I bumble around trying to figure out graduate school, Chicago, and blackness&#8230; I&#8217;m also figuring out being a twenty-something single black woman &#8230; In this post I&#8217;m a little more open about my own experiences than I usually am&#8230; so [...]


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		<title>How Murs Misses the Point about Women and Rock the Bells</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this over at Year of the Blacksmith. Murs recently spoke with Hip Hop Official about why there were no women on the Rock the Bells Tour. Murs makes some decent points about the current culture of hip-hop and the way its tendency to be misogynist can [occasionally] create an environment hostile to women. [...]


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		<title>R.I.P. to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina, Ted Kennedy &amp; Michael Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although seemingly such three different figures/events, perhaps it is appropriate that we celebrate/remember all of these lives together. All of these figures have pushed us to think about those less fortunate then ourselves, those who have been forgotten and gone uncared for in this country and around the world


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		<title>Road to Freedom Exhibit: : Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-1968</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/08/27/road-to-freedom-exhibit-photographs-of-the-civil-rights-movement-1956-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, I found myself emotionally moved by the exhibit as well. While many of the images I had seen before, some... like a photo of a young man with a dog's teeth literally gauging his stomach... were shockingly new to me.


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		<title>Black Women and Dating: or &#8220;Why you should never read another article about dating again&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a good friend of mine asked me to accompany her to the dentist office. Since I knew I would be there for an unspecified amount of time, I took along an essence magazine [september 2009] to keep me company. Now, in general I happen to really enjoy essence magazine. They include good recipes, I [...]


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		<title>America&#8217;s Next Top Model Auditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine asked me to accompany her today to America&#8217;s Next Top Model auditions here in chicago. shes a huge fan of the show, and can pretty much tell you everything you want to know about all 12 cycles. shes also always wanted to be a model&#8230; and since this cycle is [...]


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		<title>Let&#8217;s All Point &amp; Laugh at Rihanna</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>random thoughts pt. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. dumi&#8217;s fears ended up being unwarranted&#8230; the new nas album was not a letdown after the nigger mixtape. nas&#8217;s political commentary was intelligent, artistic and raw&#8230; of course it helped that three out of the 15 tracks were from the mixtape&#8230; but the new stuff is still worth the purchase. while its not the [...]


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