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		<title>Wendy Williams Show &#8216;outs&#8217; Jamie Foxx on new baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loose lips . . . Speak your peace. Posted in Blacks in Hollywood, Current Events, The Media &#38; African Americans Tagged: Garcelle Beauvais, jamie foxx, new baby, Wendy Williams Show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2360&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Speak Your Peace!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black images, issues, events, history, facts, figures, news&#8230;synthesized. Speak your peace. Posted in Current Events Tagged: African, African American, African Diaspora, Events, Facts &#38; Figures, history, Images, Issues, News<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=1&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>90-year-old talks about cancer, Obama, life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We could all learn a thing or two about healthy living from this sassy 90-year-old woman: Live long and prosper. Speak your peace. Posted in Healthy Living, Love &#38; Marriage Tagged: 90-year-old witnesses Obama's inauguration, benefits of tea, cancer prevention, dealing with cancer, healthy aging, Healthy Living, healthy longevity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2344&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a look at President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many have wondered about his birthplace, President Obama is indeed a natural-born U.S. citizen. State officials in Hawaii confirmed again that he was born in Honolulu. One question: Since when is &#8220;African&#8221; a race? Your baby could one day become the president of the United States, too. Speak your peace. Posted in African-American History, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2339&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson film may be released Oct. 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures is reportedly paying close to $60 million to AEG Entertainment for the 80 hours of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;This Is It&#8221; concert rehearsal footage. Before the icon&#8217;s sudden death on June 25, the 50-night concert was set to begin this month in London at the O2 arena. Sony is planning to release a film [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2331&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can an apology save Chris Brown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decide for yourself. Last month, Brown pled guilty to a felony assault charge for physically engaging singer Rihanna in February. His sentence includes five years of supervised probation, completion of a domestic violence counseling program, and six months of community service in his home state of Virginia. Speak your peace. Posted in African-American Youth, Art/Culture, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2326&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Harvard scholar arrested on own porch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: The Cambridge police just dropped the charges! Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., best known for his work in African-American ancestral research, was arrested last week by Cambridge, Mass., police on his own front porch. Gates had just returned from China and found his front door jammed. He went to the backdoor of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2318&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black artists headline Newport jazz festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Wein&#8217;s Jazz Festival 55 (for 55th year) in Newport, Rhode Island, August 7, 8, and 9, features a far more diverse lineup than in years past. Black, Latin, and Asian artists will perform on the same stage as legends Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck. Etta James, Branford Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, and Mos Def (and his Watermelon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2305&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama nominates candidate for U.S. surgeon general</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama announced today his nominee for U.S. surgeon general and SHE is BLACK. Dr. Regina Benjamin attended Xavier University in New Orleans, was a member of the second class of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and received an M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A family physician, Dr. Benjamin has rebuilt the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2300&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Alert: Soul Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba, the Spinners, Celia Cruz, the Crusaders, and more are featured in the  new documentary Soul Power, capturing Zaire &#8217;74, a three-day soul music festival that was originally scheduled to take place the same week as Muhammad Ali&#8217;s Rumble in the Jungle championship fight against George Foreman in Kinshasa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2293&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NFL veteran Steve McNair fatally shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) Shot twice in the head and twice in the chest, 13-year NFL veteran Steve &#8220;Air&#8221; McNair , 36, was the victim of an apparent homicide Saturday. The body of his girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, 20, lay nearby&#8212;dead from a single bullet in the head. A semiautomatic handgun was found beneath her body. Local authorities are not calling the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2287&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jena 6 get plea deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall the six young Black men in Jena, La., who were charged with attempted murder for a schoolyard fight with white schoolmate Justin Barker. After a major civil rights demonstration protesting the inappropriate severity of the charges, international media attention, and fund-raising to pay for legal representation, the charges were later reduced to second-degree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2279&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Madoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Madoff, the grand Ponzi schemer of all time who bilked investors out of $50 billion, is all over the headlines again after being sentenced today to 150 years behind bars, but there once was another financial adviser who stole millions from his investors, some of them former NFL players. Kirk Wright, a Harvard-educated hedge fund [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=556&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King of Pop is dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American icon Michael Jackson, lead singer of the &#8217;70s R&#38;B group The Jackson 5, later renamed The Jacksons after a record-label change, and winner of 10 individual Grammys as a solo artist in the &#8217;80s, died today of sudden cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. He was 50. The King of Pop made history with the 1982 release of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2263&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate apologizes for slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate passed a non-binding resolution on June 18 apologizing for American slavery (1619 &#8211; 1865) and &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221; laws following slavery through the 1960s that continued to deprive Black people of basic human rights. The resolution concludes:  Whereas it is important for the people of the United States, who legally recognized slavery through the Constitution and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2256&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Brown pleads guilty</title>
		<link>http://speakyourpeace.me/2009/06/24/chris-brown-pleads-guilty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[R&#38;B singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty Monday in a Los Angeles court to one count of felony assault involving pop diva Rihanna on February 8. Brown will be formally sentenced on August  5, but his plea deal requires him to perform 6 months of community service and serve five years of supervised probation in his home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2247&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rwandan official sentenced for genocide</title>
		<link>http://speakyourpeace.me/2009/06/23/rwandan-official-sentenced-for-genocide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Tanzania, convicted former interior minister Callixte Kalimanzira, 56, of two counts of genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide during the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 people&#8211;mainly Tutsis&#8211;in Rwanda. The African holocaust shocked the world. Kalimanzira, who instructed thousands of Tutsi civilians to take refuge at Kabuye Hill in Ndora commune, promising food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2244&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African-American woman loses election for NOW&#8217;s top office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women, the nation&#8217;s largest feminist advocacy organization, held national elections over the weekend to assemble a new team of leaders. Latifa Lyles (above) ran for president but lost and she will not retain her position as Vice President of Membership to which she was elected in 2005. Allendra Letsome is NOW&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2240&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FOX adds diversity exec as VP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOX is making a seemingly serious effort to embed diversity themes and talent at the earliest stages of program development. Ron Taylor, the TV network&#8217;s new VP of diverse programming and content, is the most recent example of this effort. Taylor will oversee script development reflective of diverse themes and/or written by writers from diverse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2236&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Senator&#8217;s aide forwards racist e-mail about the President</title>
		<link>http://speakyourpeace.me/2009/06/17/tennesee-senators-aide-forwards-racist-e-mail-about-the-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherri Goforth, an aide to Sen. Diane Black (R-TN), was given a “strong letter of reprimand” after embarrassing the GOP by sending a mass e-mail with a racist picture attached mocking President Barack Obama. Following racist humor related debacles originating in Tennessee such as &#8216;Barack the Magic Negro,&#8217; Goforth forwarded a &#8216;historical keepsake photo&#8217; of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakyourpeace.me&amp;blog=6414796&amp;post=2225&amp;subd=blackopinion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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