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		<title>Montessori: An Alternative Education for Black Children?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Turner-Essel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is, if your natural motivation for learning hasn't already been drowned out by a crappy diet, a relentless stream of TV and video games, or school experiences that feel more like prison prep than college prep.]]></description>
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		<title>MEDIA and the (IM)POSSIBILITY OF DEMOCRACY: A Call to Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up and response to his keynote address on the state of mass media and journalism Robert McChesney sat down this morning with Jared Ball for a discussion of that address.  This all was part of the Center for American and World Cultures Robert E. Strippel Memorial Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarks on &#8220;Family&#8221; in the Third World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Việt Lưu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism and colonialism re-arranged “native” social relations to model the western nuclear family consisting of an apparently heterosexual couple who form the gendered family par excellence. This family consists of a husband and wife who are defined by gender and sexuality – which are very much westernized – rather than any identity that is historically derived from their respective communities.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Black History Month and the Sankofa Bird Speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marco McWilliams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we, as people of African ancestry, only remember ourselves as former slaves and never recall ourselves as the first constructors of highly advanced societies with great centers of learning (philosophy, science, mathematics, agriculture and medicine), then we are condemned to remain a people who are only free due to the so-called benevolence of an American president.]]></description>
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		<title>The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement w Meron Wondwosen</title>
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		<comments>http://www.voxunion.com/the-malcolm-x-grassroots-movement-w-meron-wondwosen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meron Wondwosen of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us this week.  We discussed Afrikan liberation, organizing in the Obama era and the politics of gender and sexuality.  We also heard music from Curtis Mayfield, Rah Digga, Donny Hathaway and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.  All this, plus conversation with our listening audience on this week&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip-Hop Nation: Mixtape Revolution? Review and Response!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following review was first published February 6, 2012 by LeftTurn Magazine by Xan West.  With permission of the magazine we&#8217;ve republished the review here with a response to the review by the book&#8217;s author.  Stay tuned for future episodes of the Super Funky Soul Power Hour where this and other principled criticism of I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crime of Reporting Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Thrasher</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.voxunion.com/?p=5116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It often takes decades to recover from the ugly images of the city that are created by articles which inflate the level of crime in the city. Entire neighborhoods are destroyed and demonized by false accusations of being crime infested venues. New business are handcuffed by the fictional portrayal of crime in areas where business are located. The crime of reporting crime must stop!]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Apartheid and The Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement</title>
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		<comments>http://www.voxunion.com/u-s-apartheid-and-the-pan-afrikan-liberation-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jared ball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.voxunion.com/?p=5338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imhotep Fatiu of the Baltimore-based Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement and Dedrick Muhammad, co-author of the recently-released State of the Dream Report 2012 joined us this week.  This report concludes, among other things, that by 2042 the United States will fully mirror South African apartheid with an overwhelmingly powerful White minority ruling over an impoverished majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Black Youth Reject American Consumerism to Save Themselves?</title>
		<link>http://www.voxunion.com/can-black-youth-reject-american-consumerism-to-save-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the current generation is to pick up the torch of abolitionism similar to Garnet, Copeland, and SNYC members, they must reject American individualism, consumerism, and celebrity culture. ]]></description>
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		<title>New Qualitative Indices for Urban America</title>
		<link>http://www.voxunion.com/new-qualitative-indices-for-urban-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Thrasher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of these inferences are based upon models which do not replicate the real life metrics of life in the city and of course many of the architects of these white papers and studies lack the authentic insights from the people who are the subjects of these metrics and statistics.]]></description>
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