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		<title>How Western Arrogance is Handicapping the Haitian Relief Effort</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2010/01/15/how-western-arrogance-is-handicapping-the-haitian-relief-effort/</link>
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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 as [...]


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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 not [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/11/24/the-politics-of-renaming/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Politics of Renaming&#8230;'>The Politics of Renaming&#8230;</a></li>
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		<title>The Politics of Renaming&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/11/24/the-politics-of-renaming/</link>
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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 watch [...]


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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>Uptown Notes: Dear Old Morehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/10/26/uptown-notes-dear-old-morehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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, and [...]


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		<title>What Makes You Happy?</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/10/23/what-makes-you-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post-college, your suddenly thrown out into the &#8220;real-world.&#8221; Suddenly being &#8220;busy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean running to organizational meetings filled with people you love and enjoy working with, around issues that you care about. &#8220;Busy&#8221; means trying to figure out a way to pay all of your bills on a nothing salary (keeping in mind you have [...]


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		<title>Why its Easier for You to Raise Money for Breast Cancer (and not HIV/AIDS)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/10/08/why-its-easier-for-you-to-raise-money-for-breast-cancer-and-not-hivaids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday while watching football I was moderately surprised to see the players rocking pink gloves, wristbands and shoes&#8230;. but my confusion was quickly assuaged by repeated explanations that the &#8220;NFL was proudly supporting Breast Cancer Awareness&#8230;&#8221;
Being the graduate student that I am, I quickly got lost in thought about the symbolic meaning of football [...]


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		<title>Academics of Color Organizing around Violence in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/30/academics-of-color-organizing-around-violence-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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 scariest [...]


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		<title>How Murs Misses the Point about Women and Rock the Bells</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/23/how-murs-misses-the-point-about-women-and-rock-the-bells/</link>
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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. But [...]


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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Media Blitz or Why Obama is a Flake about Race</title>
		<link>http://www.southsidescholar.com/2009/09/22/obamas-media-blitz-or-why-obama-is-a-flake-about-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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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. However, I [...]


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