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		<title>Monday Commentary: Where D.C. Mayor Fenty went wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colbert King spells out the perils of Bourgeois Politics plainly. There is an old saying, &#8220;Dance with the one that brought you.&#8221; I am curious as to Mr. Fenty&#8217;s understanding of the history of Black people in D.C. and why they might feel resentful to the emerging politics of race and economic privilege in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7846</link>
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		<title>Sunday Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW
James Baldwin Born August 2, 1924 in Harlem, NY, Died December 1 1987, St. Paul-de-Vence, France
The first of nine children of Berdis (Jones) a clergyman and a factory worker, David (step-father), in Harlem, NY. Baldwin was a storefront preacher for three years starting at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7837</link>
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		<title>The Friday Comment: Put On Your Hardhat, Children!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The troublesome economy is worrisome to all of us, but especially for young people! The data, no matter who is reporting it, is abysmal. The Great Recession as pundits have called this economic era is doubly difficult on Black communities; especially our young people who are just now trying to enter the workforce. This recession [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7774</link>
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		<title>News from Africa: Did Colonel Mummar Gaddafi Actually Say These Things?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this news story is accurate Colonel Gaddafi of Libya has played the &#8220;race card&#8221; in his visit with Italy&#8217;s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italy has been the site of racial turmoil as African immigrants, mostly Ghanaians, were attacked this past spring. I found it unconscionable for Colonel Gaddafi to do this and I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7754</link>
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		<title>News from Africa: Can Dr.Attahiru Jega Assure Fair Elections in Nigeria?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Academic Tackles Chaos of Elections in Nigeria
By ADAM NOSSITER
ABUJA, Nigeria — Sometime in the next five months, Nigeria will probably have a presidential election.
But as the likely deadline looms, there is no election date, no list of candidates and not even a real list of voters in a country of at least 150 million people. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7744</link>
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		<title>The Young &amp; Entrepreneurial: Austin Black of City Living Detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Austin Black&#8217;s love of Detroit goes deep.
&#8220;Detroit created my love affair with cities and urban planning,&#8221; says Black, a Cornell grad who grew up in and around the city. &#8220;I see what as I do now as giving back to a place that really influenced who I am today. Detroit is not dead. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7738</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Poet: Claudia Rankine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She earned her B.A. in English from Williams College and her M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2004); PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7717</link>
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		<title>The State of Black Urban Politics: The D. C. Mayoral Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is certainly an interesting political campaign for Mayor in the nation&#8217;s capital. In January I wrote a Friday Comment titled The Perils of Bourgeois Politics and this campaign certainly looks like I was dead on in my commentary according to this Washington Post article. Lets keep our eyes on this campaign because it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7710</link>
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		<title>Sunday Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW
REVIEW
Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications. 
Nadifa Mohamed  was born in Hargesia, Somalia in 1981 and was educated in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7696</link>
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		<title>Professor Edward Curtis IV Tries to Set the Record Straight on Islam in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five myths about mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV 
Curtis is millennium chair of liberal arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of &#8220;Muslims in America: A Short History&#8221; and the editor of the &#8220;Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.&#8221;
Source: Washington Post
Sunday, August 29, 2010; B03
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theblackbottom.com/?p=7686</link>
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