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        <title><![CDATA[RIP Whitney Houston: What A  Voice]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[6 Books Every Women Needs In Her Arsenol to Achieve Emotional Stability]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Our nation is filled with broken people. Anti-Depressants and sleeping pills are on the rise. Struggle and pain crosses racial, socioeconomic, and gender lines. Sadly, I did not know this. I mean I knew it but I didn't believe that white families could have as much crap going on in their families as Black families do. I didn't think Asian people could be as cruel and abusive to each other as Black people. I mean everybody knows Black people are jacked up. I thought we were some type of anomaly.&nbsp;That we were&nbsp;'cursed'.&nbsp; I thought all white women felt loved and complete and valued. I thought all Asian women felt valued. I thought all White men were warm and caring and responsive. I thought everybody else but Black children had good dads and were&nbsp;born into a happy&nbsp;middle class existence. I thought everyone else had strong marriages and produced highly accomplished, respectful children. That Black women&nbsp;must've&nbsp;done something terribly wrong. As I began rea]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Does the Bible Say About Food, Emotions, and God? Pt 1]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Plenty...as it does about everything else.For all those who are naturally skinny or who are one of the very few who lost weight by sheer will power and preach the gospel of 'just diet and exercise', I would hasten to say to you that if it was as easy as diet an exercise, America would be the skinniest country in the world. Obviously there is more at play. If we look briefly we will find examples about how food are directly related to our financial situation, emotions, and decision making abilities. I'm still wrapping my head around some of these examples so if I don't give a little blurb about it I just want to throw them out for you to consider. Genesis1) Genesis 3: God gave them many trees to eat from- Abundance of Food is a symbol of wealth and power. We also see this in the 23rd Psalm. 'Thou will make a banqueting table in the presence of thine enemies'. 2)The first commandment with a warning was one connected to food."Thou can eat from any tree in the garden except the Tree of Goo]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Foster The People...Pumped Up Kids]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I used to love this song ...until I read the lyrics.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Classic...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Black Women Are Dumb As Hell!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Over at http://www.curlynikki.com/&nbsp;a post was presented where a man who's wife (the lady pictured above)&nbsp;had gone natural and thus wanted to break up...while she was pregnant with Baby #2. He thought his friends wife was a better woman because even though she had gone natural, she went back to relaxing after her husband had discussed it with her. 'You always do nappy styles' he whined. The solution that they came to was for her to do more straight styles and she was elated because it was a simple communication issue. Truthfully, she probably should've thought of that earlier on as a way to help him transition. **hangs head in shame*** Of course, the comments section was ablaze. There were two camps. The 'Oh no he didn't' crowd of which I was a part of and 'don't judge, you don't know the relationship. this is what men do' crowd. The original poster came back and tried to further excuse her husband's negligence to her pregnancy hormones tried to put a positive spin on it expla]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cain is Gaining?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow What the heck is in the water? I thought America didn't want a Black President. I thought if Obama did bad, he would mess it up for all future Black candidates. Apparently&nbsp;not if Herman Cain (who has slave blood, dark-skinned,&nbsp;and two black parents, mind you...lol) is in the lead&nbsp;in several polls and hovering close to Romney in others. Check this out....&nbsp;Herman Cain leads the national Republican field of candidates for president, according to a new poll released Wednesday. But another poll released the same day and conducted over almost exactly the same field dates shows Cain still trailing Mitt Romney.The poll that found Cain in the lead was conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm that uses an automated phone call methodology, Oct. 7-10. It found Cain leading Mitt Romney by eight percentage points, 30 percent to 22 percent. Newt Gingrich followed with 15 percent and Rick Perry with 14 percent.Casting doubt on the PPP results, though, was an Ipsos/Reut]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Is Wrong With This Picture?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Get Your Popcorn Folks!!! People who knowingly and brazenly commit to the Devil cannot be trusted.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When I Get Stuck and Don't Know What To Do...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yawn: Black Men Begging America to Raise Their Sons]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.Tavis Smiley's new campaign: 'Too Important To Fail' does everything but call Black&nbsp;Parents (in particularly Black Men)&nbsp;on the carpet...as usual. I'll at least give him credit for trying. Folks, the clarion call&nbsp;for Black boys&nbsp;has been raised for 30+ years and it hasn't worked.&nbsp; In a time of mounting debt, America is not trying to invest in a culture that does not care about itself. Black men always say Feminism, welfare,&nbsp;the 'War on Crime', and 'War on Drugs'&nbsp;destroyed the Black family. I think&nbsp;those cultural issues&nbsp;exposed Black men for who they are.&nbsp;Too many DO NOT CARE. When they do, its too late. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Herman Cain: Black People Have Been Brainwashed To Not Be Openminded]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I caught this article over at Huffington PostDuring an interview that aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Wednesday night, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain suggested that members of the African American community "have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view."Cain signaled he sees "good news" in the situation in that he believes one-third to 50 percent of black Americans are "open-minded." He explained, "I meet them every day. They stop me in the airport. And so this whole notion that all black Americans are necessarily going to stay and vote Democrat and vote for Obama, that's simply not true. More and more black Americans are thinking for themselves. And that's a good thing."The remarks from Cain come on the heels of his surprise win in the Florida straw poll. It's not the first time the GOP presidential contender has made provocative remarks on issues related to race.My thoughts: He is absolutely right. Most Blac]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A New Chapter Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I believe in the power of prayer. A week ago, I prayed that God raise the stock of Black women. Let us be seen as beautiful and valuable and just simply be loved as women. God opened my eyes and said without saying, 'I've already started'. I really do believe the perm/weave era of Black&nbsp;&nbsp;haircare hurt us more than it helped us. In its own way conceded that White hair is better. Thus,&nbsp;reducing our own beauty. One has to be blind not to see that Black women are letting go of the perms and weaves and are embracing their God given (abundant) beauty. With blogs like Black Girl with Long Hair and CurlyNikki&nbsp;and of course YouTube, the plethora of naturals have increase dramatically. Naturals are enjoying greater confidence, compliments, and just the peace of knowing that 'I am ok'. Contentment is the greatest beauty ointment in the world. Also, I don't know about you but I am seeing more ads with natural black women in them. My local Target is filled with Black women rocki]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Four Black Women Rule Broadway This Season!From Indiewire:Just thought I’d toast to what just may be a historical moment (theater geeks can correct me if I’m wrong on this); This season will see 3 Broadway shows (the highest level of commercial theatre/stage achievement in this country) penned/adapted by black women. And we’ve of course been covering all 3: Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, which begins previews today, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett; Stick Fly, written by Lydia R. Diamond, which Alicia Keys is producing, and stars Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Emmy nominee Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, and Condola Rashad; and last, but not least, of course, the revival of the Gerswhins’ Porgy &amp; Bess, adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre L. Murray, starring Audra McDonald, David Alan Grier, Norm Lewis, Joshua Henry, Philip Boykin, and Nikki Renee Daniels.Check out the rest of the story here.I love being a Black Woman. Support! Support! Support!﻿]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some Things We Can Learn From The Troy Davis Case]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow -Be aware of where you are after dark. This crime happened in a&nbsp;parking lot at night. What was Davis doing there? What was 'Redd' and Collins (other people implicated in the shooting) doing there?&nbsp;&nbsp;MacPhail was working as a nearby security guard for a Burger King nearby and intervened in a scuffle in the nearby lot, where Davis and others were. Any neighborhood that&nbsp;a Burger King needs to have a security guard is not one to be out at night, especially if you have a&nbsp;questionable reputation. -Attorneys! Attorneys! Attorneys! From start to finish the defense attorneys dropped the ball. I'm assuming Davis was not a wealthy man&nbsp;as he&nbsp;depended on public defenders. Public attorneys are usually the bottom of the barrel attorneys that usually assume the party is guilty anyway. They said their original poor performance was due to lack of resources, i.e I don't care if a man's life is at stake, I'm not working overtime unless I'm getting paid. Their first appeal]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let's Talk About Women & Sex]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow The adage goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing yet expecting something different. People always assume teenage girls have sex because they have poor self-esteem. People always assume that if a woman sleeps around she has poor self-esteem. People always assume that if a woman has a male (or female) friend with benefits she&nbsp;has poor self-esteem. These people will start programs,&nbsp;start groups&nbsp;on facebook, and the like to tell women and girls that having greater self-esteem is the cure for sexual promiscuity. They urge that women should wait for the right man. Mind you, sexual promiscuity is only attributed to women. Having mindless sex is the opposite of what it means to be a woman when women have had&nbsp;mindless sex for milleniums. They will encouage women to wait...and wait...and wait until the&nbsp;right man comes along.&nbsp;To this day, there are women in America who have rushed into marriage just to have sex without the shame. It is safe to s]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Take it Like A Woman.... Needless, to say I do not miss them days.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This Week In Negro Women's History]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Congratulations Miss Angola for winning Miss Universe 2011!The annual Miss Universe pageant was held in Sao Paulo on Sunday night, and Miss Angola, 25-year-old Leila Lopes, took the crown after impressing judges with her striking cream-colored gown and insightful answer to the final question. Lopes is the first winner the pageant has ever selected from her country. After she beat 88 other competitors from around the world, she was crowned by last year’s winner, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico.Read MoreHonorable Mention are the 10 out of 88 contestants who were Black. Get 'em girls. You'll have check to go to http://www.missuniverse.com/ to see those other cuties. ﻿ ﻿﻿﻿ ﻿ ﻿ Barbara Jordan will be honored with a stamp. Yay BJ! In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman elected to Congress from the South. This week, 15 years after her death, she will become the first African-American congresswoman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.Jordan, who delivered an]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow This has to be God's favorite YouTube video of the week...lol. They have such boldness. Enjoy...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I date pretty frequently. I have always had better luck finding/dating unchurched men. However, I always had this nagging thought that I was doing something wrong. These nagging thoughts have been buttressed by some other nagging thoughts:1) God shall not be mocked, You reap what you sow. 2) Women are more spiritual than men. This is true&nbsp; across religions. Therefore, the numbers are not in a&nbsp;I'll-only-date-a-Christian&nbsp;woman's favor.3)&nbsp;Religious men tend to be great spiritually but lacking in other areas, namely finance.4) Religious men tend to be more abusive and domineering&nbsp;when they get married. 5) There seems to be a difference between a good man and a Godly man. I would much rather prefer a man that is nice and kind&nbsp;than a man that knows a lot of Bible verses. A religious man doesn't neccessarily mean the man is good. 6)&nbsp;Shouldn't&nbsp;character be the most important factor when deciding who to marry? 7) It is better to marry than to burn...or ha]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Another thing to remember when considering Black Hair&nbsp;is that hair politics (straight is bait and long is king) is new to Black women. Unfortunately, we do not have pictures of how Black women wore their hair before the 'white&nbsp;people came'. Short nappy hair was probably standard. In tribal communities that have been barely touched by colonialization, short nappy rules the day. The women have husbands, children, and are respected within their village. So&nbsp;words like twist outs, length retention, protective styling, and deep conditioning are new terms and new concepts in the historical conscious of the Black world. Black women are really starting from scratch with how to deal with their hair in this highly hair conscious environment. Women of other races have had several thousands of years of hair practice&nbsp;and at least could hide behind the straightness or loose curls that they had when the 'white people came'. Black women: not so. Therefore, I salute Black women, part]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow This is my third time going natural. The first time was by accident. I stopped perming my hair in high school and just pressed and kept it in braids. The perms were breaking my hair off&nbsp;as my mother didn't really know how to maintain my hair. I, like so many other black girls, was on my own in terms of hair care and personal maintenance. As long as I ate, had a warm house to sleep in, and&nbsp;got good grades, I was alright. Needless to say, I am still working on my self-esteem.&nbsp;I had a trim and coils in my hair the summer before my sophomore year in college (2003...2nd time). I loved that look and kept the coils and twists in my hair up until the remainder of my senior year of college (2005-2006). Sadly I do not have many pictures of that time in my life. In senior year, pressed my hair was just short of collar bone. Senior year and out of school, I kept my hair in braids, half-wigs, and partial sew-ins. Because every time I went to the hair salon they said my hair was eithe]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow More and more Black women are discovering their natural beauty&nbsp;which starts and stops with their hair. They are&nbsp;breathing free of the creamy crack, unplugging the pressing combs and wearing their hair just as God intended it. Thanks to the countless number of blogs, forums, websites,&nbsp;and of course the greatest&nbsp;encyclopedia eva, YouTube, Black women are feeling empowered to wear chemical free hair. This journey is not just a physical journey. The journey to&nbsp;wearing non-treated hair is mental.&nbsp;A Black woman has to say 'SHUT UP' to 500 years of hate from both&nbsp;external and internal sources all while learning the mechanics of her own hair and that is no easy challenge. It is made even harder when people who seemingly should encourage the&nbsp;freedom&nbsp;from subscribing to European standards of beauty don't. White people LOVE when Black&nbsp;women wear their own hair. Often&nbsp;Black women who decide to go natural are greeted with compliments from white]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Point Of It All]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Enjoy...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow An idea came to me. Since men have such issues with women wearing certain clothes to church or using their gifts to preach or lead groups of people without 'usurping their authority', maybe women should start their own assemblies for them and by them. Why are women spending a 10th of their hard earned money to be told that their gifts should be reduced to minding themselves (women's ministry), minding the&nbsp;children (Sunday School),&nbsp;or serving the missionaries (Hospitality Ministry) when there are so many women who have the gift of preaching, teaching, and leadership? If we removed gender from our assemblies, our leadership roles would be drastically different and the quality of Christian service would be better. How many women don't speak up during church meetings because 'theyre not supposed to speak'? How many women don't or can't offer great ideas because they don't qualify to be deacon even though they do more work than a deacon and a trustee put together, not because of t]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow These are my Top 35 Female Anthems in no particular order. 1)I'm Every Woman by Chaka Khan2)I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston3)Meet Me on The Moon by Phyllis Hyman4)Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette5)I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt6)It's A She Thing by Salt-and-Pepa7)Don't Let Go by En Vogue8)Its Raining Men by Weather Girls9)Put a Ring on It by Beyonce10)Falling In Love With Jesus by Jonathan Butler11)Bag Lady by Erykah Badu12)Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin13) If I War Your Woman by Gladys Knight14)He Loves Me by Jill Scott15)I Will Survive by Gloria Gainor (or Lauryn Hill)16)Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill17)True Colors by Cyndi Lauper18)The Rose by Bette Midler19) Love Should've Brought You Home by Toni Braxton20) Everything Happens for A Reason by Zhane21) This Woman's Work by Maxwell22) The Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler23) Like the Way I Do by Melissa Etheridge24) Hear My Call by Jill Scott25) Sweet Thing by Chaka Khan26) I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack27) Love]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow 1) You can pray to whoever you want and disagree with the Government's policies without getting your head chopped off.2) If you work hard, you can be who you want to be. This is true whether people want to believe it or not. Yes, the work will be difficult (most Americans really don't know what working hard is)&nbsp;but if you apply yourself, network, play your cards right, you can definitely climb the social ladder.3) The opportunities abound. People can whine all they want but there is no welfare, foster care, public schools, community colleges, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, free libraries, mentoring programs, non-profit organizations, job corp, head start, affirmative action, equal opportunity, subsidized housing and healthcare to help people get on better footing in most of the world. 4) I like the way we give. The world over knows of our generosity. Those countries that speak the worst of America&nbsp;or say&nbsp;'America needs to mind its business' are either sent money from]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow There's much to be considered when dating interracially. However,&nbsp;I would venture to say that far too many Black women don't even considering men from&nbsp;Africa or the Carribean for whatever reason. I've dated 2 African&nbsp;men&nbsp;in my short life and here&nbsp;are the reasons that&nbsp;I think they should be considered&nbsp; in conjunction with their American cousins. These traits can be found in those Africans and Carribeans that haven't been too Americanized. Also,&nbsp;men who may have one parent (esp. mother)&nbsp;that is African or Carribean&nbsp;and one parent who is American Black, even though they may have been born in the US.-Less baggage. Call it what you want but slavery did a number on Black Americans, male and female.&nbsp;Black Americans mindsets for the most part are abnormal to civilized norms. This is seen more in the men than in the women. Nonetheless, the women cater to these abnormal thinking patterns which affects the whole group. -They know their role.&]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow CNN Freedom Project&nbsp;is doing an excellent job raising awareness and trying to end human slavery. Gangs in Oceanside, California has called a truce in order to sell women. Here's a profile of one womanJessica worked as a prostitute in the booming internet sex trade. But she didn't work for herself. She says she had a pimp who set a quota of $1,000 a day – money that took about 10 dates to earn. Jessica told me she was afraid of her pimp who is a gang member. If she didn't work, she didn't eat, saying she once went 5 days without food. Needless to say Black women are very hard on Black men. Black men do not mince words when it comes to Black women either. Nonetheless, there is something to be said about men as a whole that they have missed/dropped/burned the ball when it comes to how they treat women. These men didn't&nbsp;drop their weapons&nbsp;because they grew up and realized that that lifestyle was hazardous to their own lives let alone the lives of&nbsp;others. They didn't d]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I'm an avid reader. Love it. Throw out my TV. Destroy all the movie theatres but for the love of God if something ever happens to Borders, Amazon,&nbsp;or the book section of my local Target, I'd be a wreck (albeit even more than&nbsp;I actually am). Right now, I'm reading a book about an overweight white woman and her musings about life. I won't give the title because I don't want her to sue me. She lives in&nbsp;New York so I'm sure she could use the extra money. Anyway, every chapter she talks about a&nbsp;different subject, none very serious but it is a light-hearted look over another womans&nbsp;shoulder&nbsp;and shes managed to get me to laugh quite a few times which is every natural worrier's dream. Literally, every other page there's a jab at her weight. Now,&nbsp;I know black women struggle with the extra pounds but I really do believe we are not as haunted about wearing double digit jeans as other races of women are. That&nbsp;may be due to black men's universal ability to en]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I know i may be late but this floored me...Excuse me but (some) Black church people are dumb as shit...I need to open a church. Obviously, I'm in the wrong business. Average Bro writes In street parlance, we'd refer to this pile of cash as "racks on racks on racks". In church parlance, I can only look at this and think "what in the Hades are folks at New Birth thinking?" Who justsohappens to bring a dope boy-sized stack of money (secured with a rubber band, of course) to Sunday service? Wouldn't someone bumrushing the pulpit like this typically be tackled by church security? This is such a transparent money grab, I halfway expected to see a getaway car pull up. If Long and Co. are stooping to using performance art to convince congregants to give, what's next? Personally, I really, really, really dislike it when people paint all pastors with the same stereotypically "shady" brush. An overwhelming majority of those who head black churches are ethical, Christ-driven, and trustworthy. It's]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Just Watch...When did Farrakhan convert? It doesn't matter. I'm glad that he did.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Hello all! I just returned from a much needed cruise to the Carribean. Traveling is such an eye opening experience that anybody that can should take advantage of...as often as possible. I'm planning my next voyage to Europe&nbsp;for the&nbsp;fall. Some things I that sauntered through my head while visiting the&nbsp;beautiful islands&nbsp;go as follows:-Anybody that says there is no God is a damn fool.&nbsp;Plain and simple. When I stepped onto the top deck and peered out of&nbsp;at the vastness that is the&nbsp;deep blue Atlantic Ocean, I was more convinced than any time that I read any religious book that there was a God, that there was something or Someone bigger. It literally took my breath away. The earth literally declares His name. - Black women aren't the only people struggling with obesity. Have you ever noticed that any article about something bad usually ends in an embarrasing&nbsp;stat about black people? Me too. Well on this cruise which was basically working class to upper]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Above is the latest advertisement from Cadbury (owned by Kraft Foods). How many things wrong with this&nbsp;advertisement is there? Did they get permission from her? No. Personally, I have no problem with people referring&nbsp;to black people as chocolate. However, using someone's name without their permission, playing on their negative image (who really knows if she has them...were you there) and&nbsp;an overarching negative stereotype of black women, AND throwing diamonds in the pic knowing her&nbsp;alleged connection to&nbsp;blood diamonds is beyond insulting on so many levels. Campbell responded, "I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people. I do not find any humor in this. It is insulting and hurtful." Naomi Campbell is considering "every option available," including a lawsuit.Simon Woolley of the UK's Operation Black Vote, called for a boycott of the brand's products, adding, "Racism in the playground starts]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow The one and only Gil Scott-Heron passed away May 27, 2011. This part is awesome...A legend of hip-hop and spoken word.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow An intriguing article from fastcompany.comA new study from Georgetown University breaks down which majors of study result in the highest career earnings. Art majors, ask a friend if you can borrow his computer to read this.&nbsp; College students must be wise about the career path that they choose. 10 Things Every Current or Budding College Student Should Know&nbsp; (Also a Must Read)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bed Bugs: Your Latest Travel Companion]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Traveling this summer? I am too. I'm cruising for 10 days to the Carribean in a few weeks (so excited). At first I felt guilty because of what I'm trying to accomplish financially. Traveling is a luxury&nbsp;but I NEED a vacation. &nbsp;Nonetheless, if you live in one of the large cities in America, you know very well that bedbugs are back. Here are the top 15 cities facing a bed bug resurgence:1. New York2. Philadelphia3. Detroit4. Cincinnati5. Chicago6. Denver7. Columbus, Ohio8. Dayton, Ohio9. Washington, D.C.10. Los Angeles11. Boston12. Indianapolis13. Louisville, Ky.14. Cleveland15. Minneapolis, Minn.Experts put the blame on international travel. Bed bugs had been eradicated for 50 years&nbsp;in the US due to DDT in most insecticides. The environmentalists thought&nbsp;DDT was&nbsp;too harmful to the environment (eye roll) and the US, England, and Paris have been fighting the parasites like they do in developing countries.&nbsp;People have also blamed the laxed hotel cleaning of sh]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Critique on Beyonce's Run The World Song]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow This is wedding season. Congrats to all the newlyweds. This song is for you.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Let the Healing BeginI was asked to write an article about the solutions to the DBR disease that I described in an earlier post. I really had never considered a solution to the problem because by definition (damaged BEYOND REPAIR) these indiduals who exhibit several or many of the traits listed cannot be fixed. However, Black people are&nbsp; a people&nbsp;who&nbsp;have deep reservoirs of hope. Thus, for anything to be irrepairable is not an option. Thus,&nbsp;most of us deep down believe everyone can be changed, especially our own. Though most black men are probably not DBR to the extreme, I am sure that all Black men saw themselves in at least one of those symptoms which means there is quite a bit of repairing that needs to be done. Let's start first from where the solutions&nbsp;do not lie.Black WomenBecause so many Black women have been&nbsp;programmed to blindly revere/idolize&nbsp;Black men, sad&nbsp;to say, most Black&nbsp;women do not know how to&nbsp;correct Black men, or even]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I have learned a lot from BWE blogs. Their major aim, that I have surmised, is to get Black women on a higher thinking pattern in order to live fulfilled lives. The contend that Black women are on their on and need to stop enabling the poor behavior exuded by other Black people, but especially by (DBR) Black men. I guess it must be working because I was a sister solider type, lets have a conversation/roundtable/program about it so we can fix the problem. I now understand that there is nothing more to say. Black people are grown and do what they want to do. Black&nbsp;life&nbsp;revolves around&nbsp;the dysfunction of DBR men. Think about it-the just think about his heart mantra, 'marriage is for white people', 'lower&nbsp;your standards', the producers make black men make bad music,&nbsp;The Man&nbsp;emasculates black men and causes them to walk out on their families, all men cheat so you may as well just accept it, that 14-year-old girl&nbsp;should've known better than R. Kelly even th]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I ran across this article at lifescript.com about how women in their 40s need to dress their age. I agree. Women in their 40s should not be trying tocompete with 20 year olds.&nbsp;A lot clothes nowadays barely look good on younger women, let alone the the older women. I love when I see older women who look really good.&nbsp;They inspire me and they usually look younger than their age when they dress well and take care of themselves.&nbsp;Here's a snippet of the article and a link at the bottom.Walk into any mall and you’ll see a 40-something woman wearing every trend from Forever 21: tight tank top, low-rise jeans, metallic platform heels, plastic bangles and oversized earrings. Are you a middle-aged fashionista who just doesn’t know when to quit? Read on for the top 10 clothing items to leave in the past…They list (with explanations)1. Message T-Shirts2. Too-Trendy Denim 3. Costume Shoes4. Micro-mini SkirtsYou can find the rest of the article here.&nbsp;Needless to say, this ar]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow If one frequents Black Women Empowerment websites, you have become acquainted with the acronym DBR to describe Black-American Men. I just want to spell out some of symptoms of this disease that plagues many Black men. I'm sure the term begs the question, damaged by what? An amalgamation of historic events; events put on black people by others and events put on themselves. I really believe the damage comes from believing black men can do no harm. This has provided the cancer that pervades Black American culture. When people have no accountability, they run amuck to their own shagrin. And being that men are natural leaders (women are&nbsp;quite a force to be reckoned with&nbsp;in their own right) their recklessness effects the whole family/neighbor/community/country/world. DBR Men can be any age even though most&nbsp;tend to be&nbsp;Xers, Yers, and millenials (under 40). Nonetheless, these men had to get this faulty thinking from somewhere. They can hold any position in the community (Pa]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow The main reason I am exercising everyday is because I do not want to age poorly. My last Pastor is knocking on 90 and still runs 5 miles a day and looks not a day over 65. My present church bubbles with many black people who look good for their age, even though they are out of shape. I think to myself, how much better would they look if they dropped some pounds. How much better would I look if I dropped some pounds?I have been a size 10/12 since I was 12 (which is good I guess) but I want to lose more weight. I want to get out of the thick/chubby/plump range and into the petite (but not too skinny) range. I want to see what I look like at a size 8 and then decide whether or not to continue down to a size 6. Losing too much weight can be a blessing and a curse for a black girl. When a woman loses weight, she also looses some key assets (ahem) and I don't want to lose too much (blush, blush). When I am 40, I want to look 30. When I am 50, I want to look 35/40 and so on. One of the main r]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow The oldyish station in my city played this song a couple of weeks ago and I have been dancing to this song ever since. Enjoy...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Sad to say (depending on who you talk to), I'm going to start dating white men with&nbsp;the potential for marriage. The&nbsp;more I talk to&nbsp;black men the more I realize I really don't have many things in common with the bulk of them. As a whole, they are either unmarriageable or are not marriage minded. When you go on YouTube the bulk of the attacks aginst black women come from black men. For two generations, black men have unashamedly abandoned their families. They have a long history of sexual and physical&nbsp;abuse and infidelity. They are even living up to their own stereotypes&nbsp;by populating prisons and creating dangerous neighborhoods wherever they live in large numbers.&nbsp;We all know the state of black music, produced by black men,&nbsp;and its detriment to the image of black women and the black community as a whole. They don't care about the community, heritage, or the family. The bulk of them don't event see any thing wrong or are not called to action by where we]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I am very active in my home church. Yesterday I got a message from the church secretary saying that they are trying to get the youth to come out to more activities and that the young adults are very influential to the youth but the young adults are the only group not doing anything and how can they help. They are going to have a meeting soon and&nbsp;I need to bring ideas if&nbsp;I am available to attend. This flipped my wig. There were three young adults in the teen choir for support, and because they didn’t want to sing with the geezers, one of them was a director. Two out of the three coordinators for the youth dance ministry were young adults. One young adult led the day camp. The young adults pretty much run the drama ministry. Young adults also frequented the youth study center with the teens. Another young adult taught on many occasions at the teen camp and vacation bible school. We encourage those who graduate to come to our own ministry functions. Many of the young adults go]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Farrakhan's Response to Obama on Libya]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oil Was Not Made for Cars]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Anybody who's a Christian and who has given out tracts knows that you come across some very interesting people. A woman came to me telling me that Japan had experienced some more aftershocks in the morning (of March 19, 2011). After directing me to Jeremiah 49:1-2 and explaining that the Ammonites are the Japanese ancestors and the Gads are the ancestors of the North Africans, she said that oil was put in the earth&nbsp;by God to lubricate it. When we extract the oil, especially at the pace&nbsp;in which we (the global community)&nbsp;have the earth doesn't have the neccesary amount of oil to&nbsp;secrete the earth's core and thus the earth grinds or quakes.I thought she was a&nbsp;little off base at first (the Scripture threw me off)&nbsp;but then when I thought about it, she may have a point. Oil was&nbsp;in the earth before automobiles were even thought of so it probably did/does have a greater purpose than driving our transportation systems. We may begin to see more and more of the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I Will Wait For You]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I dare you to say you don't love this poem.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I am a HUGE fan of Target for a number of reasons; mainly because&nbsp;their prices are neck and neck with Wal-Mart without the Wal-mart lines and Wal-Mart multi-ethnic foolishness. I recently found another reason to love Target (pronounced: tar'&nbsp;zhay)....kidding.I recently took a gander at Target's&nbsp;pictures throughout the local Target near me and found them to be very diverse (read: many black faces).&nbsp;I counted about 20-30&nbsp;faces of African descent displayed throughout the store nearest me and one&nbsp;a little further out. Below are just a few of the great pics I found decorating my local Target. Many of the faces in the cosmetics department were black which is where I started to really take notice of the number of pictures of black people in the store. Black women must be investing more in cosmetics and we know we&nbsp;DRIVE the hair care industry. Here's more:]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The One and Only Donny Hathaway]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow This man could sing 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider' and it would be a classic. He was such a gifted vocalist. Like so many of our artists, He was mentally ilill. He took his life at only 33 years of age (1945-1979). Depression is a bitch. Brothers and sisters, if you are struggling please get some help.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Iyanla and Oprah]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow My thoughts:1) I think Iyanla was right for letting Harpo know what was going on.2)&nbsp;I think it was rash for Oprah to shut it down so quickly.3)&nbsp;I don't think really made Iyanla look like the arse. 4)&nbsp; I honor Oprah for always thinking with a business eye. She never let 'help a Negro out' shoot her in the foot. 5)&nbsp;I think she should've still capitalized on the wealth that she had created. To go from $3 million to 'working class poor' with a law degree, books, and&nbsp;fame&nbsp;speaks of one's inability to handle one's finances. Mind you, she was a regular on that counseling show 'Starting Over' in the mid 2000s, has had several guest appearances, and a contributor to Essence.6) It can't be the anointed time and not the appointed time. Since then1) Of course the mega-house is gone2) The husband is gone. He actually was married when they got together. He was with a woman and they had 8 children together (or at least they were all under the same roof). He didn't have a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[African Arrogance is Unfounded]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Many Black Americans have experienced arrogance from recent immigrants from Africa. They will say all types of evil things with their noses up in the air. The author of&nbsp;Sojourner's Passport does a great post about this and how African-Americans should respond. However, as Oprah's South African school continues to be rocked by&nbsp;scandal, the&nbsp;immoral African mindset is being displayed for the whole world to see. African immigrants are usually wealthier than their impoverished bretheren who can't relocate so they easily hide their culture's incivility in Western countries.&nbsp;However, we must always ask ourselves, if their culture/country was so much better why are there more Africans leaving Africa&nbsp; today than at the height of the slave trade? Again, these are the brains and a lot of times the wealth of many of their home countries. Wouldn't it be better to build up their home countries?&nbsp; Obviously not. What are&nbsp;they escaping from? The latest episode where a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[7 reasons Why Blacks Should Consider Another Party Besides the Democrats]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Everybody assumes that Black people are Democrats by default. Democrats know that if the Black vote falls below 80%, they will not win. Democrats know our Achilles Heel is racism and so they paint Republicans (or anybody who is not a Democrat) as angry racists as often as they can. I know.&nbsp;Republicans are far from warm concerning African-Americans. However, the Dems paint others as one thing without providing a tangible feasible plan for how they will&nbsp;make things any better. Just because one says they're better than another doesn't mean they're&nbsp;good. &nbsp;Black people need to be more strategic about who they align with politically and it is&nbsp;safe to say,&nbsp;siding with the Democrats has not&nbsp;been working. Here's why I think Blacks need to look to&nbsp;other parties:1. Democrats&nbsp;think with their heart. This is noble but it is expensive. We,&nbsp;Americans of all colors, cannot afford such logic. We need to bring the budget back in line and that includes ev]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spotlight on Rep. Allen West]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Just Watch...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Its Never Too Late to Make a Resolution]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Why wait 'til January 1, 2012 rolls around to resolve to do something you know you need to do? or Why did you give up on your New Year's Resolution so soon?&nbsp;&nbsp;Now is the time to reflect and make resolutions to benefit ourselves, our communities, and the greater good.&nbsp;Consider volunteering this year. Those of you not&nbsp; affected by the recession, continue donating sheets and blankets to your local homeless shelters or donate food to your local food bank. Consider your attitude towards others. Have you grown callous and unforgiving? Have you grown rude and impatient? Consider finding ways to get away from the negative and find a space&nbsp;to center and better&nbsp;manage your attitudes.&nbsp;Become cordial to your neighbors, family members, and coworkers. Are you a teacher, social worker, pastor who has grown cold in your charge to urge greatness from those whom you have responsibility for? Consider, pray, meditate, ask God for help to give you a fresh fire and a greate]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow The whole video is good but take it from the 16:20 mark where a audience member asks about whether gay conservatices should have been allowed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Here was her response:Again, Black people MUST start seeing the Democrats for what they really are. They hurt more than they help.P.S. Her book called 'Church of Liberalism' is a good read.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Def Poetry Jam]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Here are just a few gems I ran across...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I log on to The Book (facebook) and one of my friends statuses reads something along the lines of &nbsp;'I've never had a Valentine'. Seems like more people than we know have this experience. Anyway, then I remembered that this sister had a child. Another one of her friends co-signed 'me either' and they both agreed that their v-day gifts were children, fighting, and drama of which they had let go of. About a couple months ago, a&nbsp;28-year-old black woman said she was finally in a real relationship. She too had already had a child. Several years ago, a woman in her 20s that worked in my department got pregnant. She was not married but not once did she say anything about a man. We all have the co-workers who tell a great deal of their social life. She was one of them that didn't hide anything. Not once did she mention a consistent partner. However, she was excited about being a new mommy. Pardon me but (in my facebook vernacular) wtf?Several things come to mind:What type of relations]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Eff You: What Is the Definition of a Gold Digger?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I have been sitting in this issue for several weeks&nbsp;since&nbsp;I&nbsp;first heard this song. I'm sure you have already heard it.When I ask my male co-workers what a gold digger is they define it as a woman who wants a man for his money. When we have other discussions about what women want they go so far as to say a woman requiring a man make a certain a amount (mind you much less than her even though she has a masters degree and is making $70K/year) is a borderline gold digger. She should just accept him for him. He would never accept her for her if she were 300 lbs though but that's neither here nor there right? The paternal responsibility to provide and protect is lost with today's generation of men. The fact that this song has become as popular as it has only means men of all races have lost their bearings with regard to this issue (and women don't think it applies to them). These are the same men who complain that women are no longer submissive. You want me to practice the con]]></description>
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