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		<title>Simone Biles’ Winning Message Is as Good as Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simone Biles became the most decorated Olympic gymnast in U.S. history by taking time for herself and maintaining therapy sessions while competing in Paris.  “I’m in a good spot mentally and physically, and you can’t take it from me,” Biles said in an NBC Olympics interview. “So when I go out there, it’s pure joy.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Cinnamon Rolls Call: A Food Story on Craving Memories</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2021/11/27/when-cinnamon-rolls-call-a-food-story-on-craving-memories/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In "Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict," Michelle Petties reveals that she was once so obese that some insurance companies refused to cover her. A recovering “stone-cold sugar addict,” Petties gained and lost 700 pounds during her 42-year battle with obesity. Then she rewrote the endings of her food stories and dropped from a high of 260 pounds.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At Valor Village, Hurt People Help People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Angela Johnson and her husband, William, who are an Army Silver Star family, endured a soul-crushing experience when their son Andrew was arrested in California. While undergoing the stress of helping their son, the Johnsons bought an abandoned early 20th-century home and renovated it into Valor Village where veterans and their families who are dealing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bald &#038; Beautiful: Ayanna Pressley on Life With Alopecia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a black woman, the personal is political,&#8221; Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., says. &#8220;My hair story is no exception.&#8221; Known for her Senegalese twists, Pressley tweeted that she is sharing her journey with alopecia areata &#8220;to create space for others.&#8221; She has been losing clumps of hair since last fall and decided to embrace her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Actress/Comedian Cocoa Brown Sheds Pounds and Pain of Divorce</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fierce Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Actress and comedian Cocoa Brown, who has been featured on the TV series &#8220;911&#8221; and &#8220;For Better or Worse,&#8221; tells Fierce adviser Dr. Ro how she overcame a painful divorce, lost weight and found herself in the process. Listen and subscribe to the Dr. Ro On Demand Podcast for this and other exclusive interviews. Listen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ntozake Shange Moves Through World in New Ways After 2 Strokes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Despite the health challenges of living in a differently abled body, Ntozake Shange continues to to experiment as an artist,&#8221; Jamara Wakefield writes. &#8220;Her work has been handed down by generations of women now, passed from mother to daughter, sister to sister, or friend to friend. Because &#8220;for colored girls” is such an institution in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mo’Nique on ‘Blackbird,’ Staying Fit and the Rift</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 03:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t seen Oscar winner Mo’Nique’s new indy film Blackbird, you should run, not walk, to the nearest theater. With Blackbird, Mo’Nique and co-stars Isaiah Washington (patriarch Lance Rousseau) and newcomer Gary LeRoi Gray (son Efrem) are changing the world. I caught up with the actress/comedian, executive producer and businesswoman to hear about her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Happy Equals a Healthy Heart</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How one woman beat hypertension, diabetes and helped hundreds of other women along the way. Dawn Estelle Archer can’t remember the exact moment that she broke free. She only recalls that one day, she decided she was tired of feeling bad and determined to get control of at least one thing in her life. “Part [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>She’s a Survivor: Tiffany Sanders vs. Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2014/10/23/shes-a-survivor-tiffany-sanders-fights-breast-cancer/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Crawford-Tichawonna]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Breast cancer helped Tiffany Sanders speak up more and put herself first. “It’s taught me how truly strong I am,” Sanders says. “It’s also taught me to communicate more about what I need.” Sanders was diagnosed with cancer three years ago at age 34 after feeling a lump in her breast. Her doctor initially [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charita Smith: 150 Pounds Lighter With a New Life</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2014/07/16/charita-smith-how-she-dropped-150-pounds-and-got-a-new-life/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charita Smith can dance again. She feels healthier, happier and sexier after losing half of herself. She dropped 150 pounds — from 310 down to 160 — after spending a year working off the weight with the help of celebrity trainer Chris Powell. “I have this smile that just radiates from my heart,” the 2014 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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