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	<title>Yanick Rice Lamb | Fierce for Black Women</title>
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		<title>Celebrating and Sharing Our FIERCE History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Joy!]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s celebrate our brilliance and our invaluable contributions to this country and our communities throughout the diaspora. As efforts emerge to erase our history, we celebrate the women who have inspired us and will continue to bring us through this challenging time. Enjoy this extraordinary, musical tribute to Black women from Ledisi (below), and check back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judith Jamison Dances to Eternal Rest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Judith Jamison epitomizes the phrase &#8220;poetry in motion.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve never seen her perform, watch the clips in the video below as she discusses her role as dancer, choreographer and artistic director with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the legacy of its founder. Jamison transitioned on Saturday at the age of 81 after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It was the Rubber Capital of the World. The health consequences linger.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 05:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Yanick Rice Lamb Forced to breathe at times through oxygen tubes, the Rev. Kevin Goode nonetheless counts his blessings. Although his lungs are scarred from asbestos exposure and he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, he’s in better condition than other former employees of rubber factories in Akron, Ohio. Goode, retired pastor of Church of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Wendy Williams’ Health and What It Means for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Yanick Rice Lamb FierceforBlackWomen.com Wendy Williams says she has been touched by the outcry of concern over this week’s update on her health, which also offers important lessons for the public. Her medical team revealed that she has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and a subtype of FTD called primary progressive aphasia (PPA). “I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering Fierce Creative Lisa Hunt (1968-2024)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lisa Hunt transformed gold leaf into art, put the flair in Fierce's logo and made words speak volumes with her designs for magazines and websites.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sheree Crute</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sheree Crute is co-founder and editor-in-chief of FierceforBlackWomen.com. Sheree conceived the idea for Fierce. She is responsible for editorial strategy, content, and often writing narrative journalism and consumer health coverage for Fierce. She is also a contributing editor at the The Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University in the Department of Media, Journalism, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Unintended Consequences’: The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The jobs that a whole generation of factory workers held in Akron and other cities are mostly gone, but the health effects of the toxins they worked around every day still linger.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kamala Harris: &#8216;A  Win to See a Black Woman on a National Stage&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is a day of firsts as Kamala Devi Harris becomes the highest-ranking female U.S. official in the country&#8217;s 244-year history, after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election. Harris is also the first African-American woman to become vice president of the United States. A post on Twitter, which included her only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>13 Risks You Should Know About Colorectal Cancer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 19:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chadwick Boseman&#8217;s death has drawn attention to colon and rectal cancer. The 43-year-old actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2016 and died on Friday. During that time, his family said that he juggled chemotherapy, “countless surgeries” and performances for films ranging from Marshall to Black Panther. Colorectal cancer is one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Managing Your Money During COVID-19</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2020/06/07/how-to-manage-your-money-during-covid-19/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 01:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Personal finance expert Michelle Singletary has answers to your questions whether you’re struggling with lost pay from COVID-19 cutbacks or wondering about investments. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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