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		<title>Surviving Heatwaves: How to Stay Cool When It&#8217;s Hot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With temperatures soaring near 100 degrees or more around the country, experts are warning people to take precautions to avoid heat stroke or even death by drinking lots of water and staying cool as much as possible. It&#8217;s particularly important to check on infants, children and older adults, who are particularly at risk, as well [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Survive Risky Heat Waves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When temperatures hit 100 degrees, experts warn people to avoid heat stroke or even death by drinking lots of water and staying cool as much as possible.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saving Our Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Black girls are being subjected to disproportionately high disciplinary rates and other threats to their self-esteem, their physical well-being and their future. “We are in a battle for the souls of Black girls,” one expert warns.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Monique Greenwood &#8220;Checks Inn&#8221; to OWN With Akwaaba Empire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Akwaaba Bed &#38; Breakfast Inns is the most successful B&#38;B business on the East Coast, and Monique Greenwood remains the hands-on force behind it. She runs her four inns the only way she knows how — as the heart and soul, the everything planner and the innkeeper. Ever-helpful, Greenwood even finds herself offering advice to her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reliving Anita Hill&#8217;s Impact on Sex, Race and Gender</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For many women, Kerry Washington’s true gladiator role is serving as co-executive producer of Confirmation on HBO. The “Scandal” star portrays University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, who testified about unwanted sexual advances from her former boss, Clarence Thomas, during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court. “It’s about human beings [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To Be Young, Gifted and Black Like Nina Simone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In “Nina Simone’s Face,” Ta-Nehesi Coates goes to the heart of the debate over the casting of Zoë Saldana as the legendary singer and activist in the biopic Nina, which opens April 22. Coates breaks it down brilliantly in his exploration of the impact of racism, sexism and the Hollywood system on our self-esteem — [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tobacco Use Spikes Among Teens &#038; Middle-Schoolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Efforts to cut back on smoking need to extend beyond cigarettes to all tobacco products, which are spiking in use among young people, experts say. A new report indicates that the use of e-cigarettes has tripled while hookah smoking has nearly doubled among middle and high school students. E-cigarette use rose from 4.5 percent in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spring Into Good Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[April and May not only brings us the first bright, sunny days of spring, this is also the time of year that we celebrate National Minority Health Month. It is the perfect opportunity to think about how well you are taking care of yourself. Whether you are happily single, a mom, a partner, a wife [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Yellow Fever’ &#038; the Globalization of Colorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 03:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ng&#8217;endo Mukii says she grew up in Kenya with an “almost schizophrenic self-visualization.” In her award-winning film short, Yellow Fever, she focuses on how Eurocentric standards of beauty have distorted the self-image of African women and girls, causing some of them to bleach their skin and shun their natural hair. The film’s title refers to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mo’ne Davis: Remember Her Name</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 23:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mo’ne Davis, the youngest honoree featured on the 15 Fiercest Sisters list, is on a roll. The Little League history-maker has a book signing for her new memoir on Saturday. Disney is making a movie about her life with Debra Martin Chase as executive producer. And she just released a new line of sneakers that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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