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		<title>Ego-Tripping With Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nikki Giovanni is now with the ancestors, but she's left us with an everlasting gift of ego-tripping with Black feeling Black talk for eternity.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judith Jamison Dances to Eternal Rest</title>
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		<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>Sharing the ‘Extraordinary Gift’ of First Grandmother Marian Robinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 14:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother and the nation's First Grandmother, "was beloved beyond words by countless others whose lives were improved by her presence."]]></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>Remembering Tina Turner: Simply the Best!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 15:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; View this post on Instagram &#160; A post shared by Angela Bassett (@im.angelabassett) &#160; &#160; View this post on Instagram &#160; A post shared by Tina Turner (@tinaturner)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering My Friend Lani Guinier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Photograph: (fr, L to R) Nikolas Bowie, Mariah Moore; (bk, L to R) Lani Guinier, Linda Wright Moore, Acel Moore  Lani Guinier, a trailblazing champion of voting rights and a brilliant legal scholar, died on Saturday morning, at the age of 71, from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Ironically, she is best known for a prize [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cicely Tyson: &#8216;I Chose My Career as My Platform&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fierce celebrates the life of Cicely Tyson through this collection of words, images and video, spanning nearly a century.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>John Lewis, 1940-2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Lewis was a true hero who captured the heart of America.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>B. Smith: A Legacy of Style and Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Model-turned-restaurateur Barbara Elaine Smith, or B. Smith, was at the top of my list of together sisters. She truly lived up to the title of one of her books: B. Smith’s Entertaining and Cooking for Friends. At her restaurants, she made strangers feel like friends and friends feel like family. And all of us are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Barbara Hillary, 1st Black Woman to Visit North and South Poles, Dies at 88</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not one for boring trips with boring people, Barbara Hillary became hooked on adventure travel after shooting photographs of polar bears in Manitoba, Canada. Hillary wondered which African Americans had gone to the North Pole. She knew about Matthew Henson, but didn’t find any black women on record. “The idea to go began to form,” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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