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		<title>Ingredients of Resilience That Can Help You Manage Stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like physical fitness, resilience is not a single quality but rather many ingredients that contribute differently to a range of strengths and situations. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spring Cleaning for Your Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now that spring is upon us, it’s time to spring clean. And I’m not just talking about your living room or your kitchen. It’s also time for a mental health check-up. Studies show that warm weather is just the thing to give you a well-deserved mental boost. However, warm weather alone isn’t going to relieve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Iyanla Vanzant&#8217;s Affirmation on Gratitude, Joy and Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seeking gratitude, joy or peace? Listen to an affirmation from the Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant, founder of the Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Black Churches Work to Combat Vaccine Fears</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2021/04/09/black-churches-work-to-combat-vaccine-fears/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 01:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Black churches are key to reaching African Americans about vaccines, especially older generations more vulnerable to COVID-19, public health advocates say.

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		<title>Martin Luther King: &#8216;Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. This timeless quotation from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. captures the sentiment of this era [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An &#8216;Overcomer&#8217; Fights by Faith Against 4 Cancers</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2020/10/26/fighting-four-cancers-by-faith/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A survivor of domestic violence, stroke, four types of cancer, pneumonia and heart disease has said goodbye to her loved ones a few times, but she’s still here and fighting by faith. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Our Colored Girl: Ntozake Shange, 1948-2018</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joyce Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My intention was to just read maybe 10 pages of Ntozake Shange&#8217;s Some Sing, Some Cry while I enjoyed lunch a while ago. But 10 turned to 15 and I wasn&#8217;t done yet. After lunch, I retired to the restaurant&#8217;s outside seating on a glorious sunny, yet breezy day. Finding just enough shade, I settled in, feet propped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Black Women at Church, It’s More Than the Aretha Eulogy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Women not only fill the pews in many black churches, they also serve as church nurses and ushers, and work behind the scenes. Some are trustees, keeping an eye on church finances and making sure bills get paid. Others are evangelists, or are ordained as deacons. But many are denied true leadership roles — and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coretta Scott King Explores Her Legacy in New Memoir</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2017/01/16/coretta-scott-king-explores-her-legacy-in-new-memoir/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the pages of a new biography, Coretta Scott King emerges from the shadows, the margins of history and more importantly the labels of wife of, mother of, leader of — which while correct never went deeply enough to reveal the fullness of her life. In this book, readers will see both character and courage, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sister Circles: A Blend of Family and Friendship</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2014/01/27/sister-circles-formalized-sisterhood-without-emotional-baggage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I moved from the Washington area to just outside Charlotte, N.C., what I missed most was my girlfriends. I knew I could adjust to the slower pace of living and talking and everything else if I just had strong, soft arms to hold me up when my own strength faltered. So this is about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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