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        <title><![CDATA[FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW 02/02/10]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW The NAACP has established a site during Black History Month that I am really feeling.

Unsung Heroes of Black History Month is a project that encourages you to tell our story from a personal perspective.

You upload photos of your unsung hero and share details about their achievements.&nbsp; (Link to NAACP Unsung Heroes)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "Standing On The Corner"
Spoken Word Artist:Underscore]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW 01/20/10]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW (Sally Sanders stands in front of her new home on Monday January 18, 2010 image from The Dayton News)

HAMTRAMCK Mich-More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.





"My parents would be ecstatic that their offspring would be able to enjoy the things they couldn't," the 60-year-old Sanders said Monday before a ceremony to celebrate the milestone on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.



Hamtramck agreed in 1980 to develop 200 family housing units to make up for violating the civil rights of blacks whose neighborhoods were targeted by white officials to make way for urban renewal projects in the 1960s.



Hamtramck still hasn't met that goal, although officials predict it will by next year. The city of 23,000 is now extremely diverse, with immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and Bangladesh passing by a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[CREDIT CARD COMPANIES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR GENEROSITY DURING HAITIAN RELIEF]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW If you have made a donation to the Haitian Relief effort by using your credit card-you might want to visit MoveOn.Org after reading this post.

The credit card companies were charging additional fees to handle relief funds for Haiti.&nbsp; When this information became public the companies tried to save face by temporarily suspending those charges.&nbsp; 

Move On has detailed information about this practice. A petition is available to sign if you want to see this type of profiteering stopped on charitable donations.
You can link here to read the information. (link)


Profiteering off the misfortunes of others is so predictable!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[INSPIRATIONAL SUNDAY MINI CONCERT]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL OF OUR BLESSINGS FLOW!

Wake Up Everybody
Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes
Featuring Teddy Pendergrass



Open Our Eyes
Earth Wind and Fire



Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
Stevie Wonder



Inspirational Sunday was created by my on line twin over at Sojourner's Place. Please stop by and see what she has prepared to up lift your spirit.

Have a blessed week. May God bless your going out and your return to be safe.&nbsp; 

Keep the people in Haiti and throughout the world in prayer.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[field negro: "SURVIVOR" Port Au Prince?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine field negro: "SURVIVOR" Port Au Prince?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SPEAKING FROM THE HEART FOR A MOMENT]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have been sitting here this a.m. trying to come to grips with the death and devastation that has occurred in Haiti. I just finished having a teary moment after visiting The Intersection of Madness and Reality.&nbsp; There is a photo on a post written by Rippa that broke my heart.&nbsp; Rippa is from Haiti originally.&nbsp; His post raises some very good points about being hopeful during a time of such devastation.

Ironically, I had selected Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticant as one of my audio book selections.&nbsp; Danticant is from Port Au Prince. She is a brilliant writer.&nbsp; If you are not familiar with her works-you have been depriving yourself of a great reading experience.&nbsp; I will begin listening to Krik? Krak! while playing games over on My Yearbook. I really like this particular social media site.&nbsp; You can earn what is known as lunch money to donate to different causes. Today I will be playing for Haitian Relief Funds to be donated.&nbsp; I can give thousands of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[THE 'DEVIL' WRITES PAT ROBERTSON A LETTER]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I love a good&nbsp;printed smack down.&nbsp; A friend of mine over on Facebook shared a link that I want to share with you.

The Devil Writes Pat Robertson A Letter.&nbsp; 

Check it out!&nbsp; It hits the mark from the begining to the end.

(h/t to Mwalimu W. Kabaila)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is responding to the devastating earthquake in Haiti]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine MCC to respond to Haiti earthquake, donations welcome           January 13, 2010       AKRON, Pa. -- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is responding to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti late Tuesday afternoon. Today, MCC committed $100,000 U.S. or $103,420 Cdn. for immediate needs. International Program Department Director Ron Flaming anticipates a response of at least $1 million U.S. or $1.03 Cdn. over multiple years. MCC is appealing for donations to fund these efforts. MCC workers in Haiti include nine people from Colombia, the Netherlands and the United States; seven Haitian program staff members; and additional support staff. All program staff located in Port-au-Prince, the capital, are accounted for. Although the communications infrastructure in Haiti has been disrupted, staff members were able to send a message via the U.S. embassy. All MCC staff members who have been in touch report seeing bodies in the streets, according to Daryl Yoder-Bontrager, MCC Latin Americ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SPEAKING OF WORK;WEEK ONE IS A WRAP!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have been chilling this p.m.&nbsp; I have just completed my first week at my new work site.&nbsp; It has been a time of adjusting to an entirely different learning community and culture.&nbsp; I am working with Somalian children.&nbsp; It has been a real challenge just to adjust to the change in my work hours and learning community.

But it is all good!&nbsp; I would rather be going to work that drawing unemployment. 

This is really a learning opportunity of a lifetime for me.&nbsp; While it is not the first time that I have worked with families from the Somalian community-it is the first time that I have had Somalians as employers.&nbsp; I have to say that I like the level of respect and communication that they provide at the workplace.

The philosophy that they are forwarding is one that I definitely think many of us should consider in the African American communities across this nation.&nbsp; They want their children to be well prepared to enter what seems to be a hostile learnin]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert:]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock AgainJournalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again.” http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/14/naomi_klein_issues_haiti_disaster_capitalism Haiti has truly suffered enough. It's high time we in the west come to grips with the responsibilty we have in the plight of some other countries in this hemisphere.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Millions Pour in from Around the World to Support Haiti]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine "Millions Pour in from Around the World to Support Haiti  Reprinted from Tonic.comBy Rachel Rossitto  | Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:05 PM ETNearly $39 million and counting...And please, keep the dough rollin in! Every bit helps. Some of you might have been scarred from the Katrina financial fiasco. According to Anderson Cooper, who followed the Katrina money trail, a large portion of funds donated from charities and foreign countries to aid New Orleans stayed in the pocket of the federal government. Ok, we know. But we've also learned a few things since then. Let's continue to support Haiti and trust that we'll be a bit smarter this time.Just about every non-profit organization and news source out there offers you a way to pitch in and help. And if you are still confused and could use a dose of guidance, check out our Tonic advice on how to contribute though Charity Navigator.If even that sounds treacherous, a quicker way you can donate is to text “Haiti” to 90999 on your cellphon]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am currently on a television fast. I refuse to turn on the news to look at the devastation in Haiti. A picture says a thousand words.&nbsp; I have already seen enough destruction to know that the earthquake has forever altered Port au Prince.&nbsp; My heart felt sympathy goes out to the people who have survived this disaster. May those who have died rest in peace.


What bothers me is the response of Pat Robertson.&nbsp; He really makes me so angry when he takes on the role of knowing what is on the mind of God.&nbsp; Which seems to occur everytime there is a natural disaster involving people of color.

His latest remarks about the earthquake and why it was so devastating to the people of Haiti really shows how boxed in his mentality is.&nbsp; You can listen to his remarks here.

This statement is like a pro-slavery stance.&nbsp; Of course when you are not a member of a group of people who have been invaded and enslaved it is easy to see the other side as right.&nbsp; 

I am a Christ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Haiti Devastated by Earthquake - Help Now!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Here is a List of Aid Agencies with a presence in Haiti.Action Against Hungerhttp://www.actionagainsthunger.org/where-we-work/haitiAmerican Red Crosshttp://www.redcross.org/ American Jewish World Servicehttp://ajws.org/AmeriCareshttp://www.americares.org/Beyond Bordershttp://www.beyondborders.net/index.phpCAREhttp://www.care.org/Catholic Relief Serviceshttp://crs.org/haiti/Childcare Worldwidehttp://www.childcareworldwide.org/Direct Relief Internationalhttp://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspxDoctors Without Bordershttp://doctorswithoutborders.org/Feed My Starving Childrenhttp://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=293Friends of WFPhttp://friendsofwfp.typepad.com/Haitian Health Foundationhttp://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org/Hope for Haitihttp://www.hopeforhaiti.com/International Medical Corpshttp://www.imcworldwide.org/Page.aspx?pid=183International Relief Teamshttp://www.irteams.org/ Medical Teams Internationalhttp://www.medicalteams.org/sf/Home.aspxMeds and Food]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "Daughter"
Spoken Word Artist:Ruby Dee
Featuring Odetta singing "When I Was A Young Girl"]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Glen Beck said: "African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term.]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Beck: "African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that's not a race" What did Beck say?I just happened to listen to Smokey Robinson the other day, on the same topic.What did Smokey say? A Black American - Def Poetry JamWhile we're on the topic:       What did Carlos say? Now what game is the government playing exactly? What do you say?]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I think that we need some positive reinforcement.&nbsp; We have been dealing with the issues of "post racial" America for almost a year.&nbsp; It is time for a break in the madness!

One of the most powerful self-determination moves that we made as a group of people was to change our racial identity.&nbsp; We decided to make the transition from being Negro to Black people.

It was not easy to do this.&nbsp; There was a time if you called a colored person or a Negro a Black person-you had better be ready to throw down. Because those were considered to be fighting words.&nbsp; Even when the Black Power Movement began, it was not an identity that was readily embraced by everyone.&nbsp; Even now it is still not an identity that everyone appreciates having or being exposed to.

We&nbsp;know who we are.&nbsp;Just like every other racial grouping&nbsp;on the planet we have good folks and we have made contributions. We also have lost folks to bad habits and poor choices. That is just how life]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine by Sylvia Hamilton"One of the best things about learning is passing on what you discover to other people." Shingai Nyajeka A film about a group of Black Nova Scotian students and their quest for knowledge of self and their place in their own and the community at large. In the face of racism and marginalization, they work to establish a Cultural Awareness Youth Group, a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem through educational and cultural programs. With help from mentors, they discover and share, the richness of their heritage and learn some of the ways they can begin to affect change. Shot on location in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)The Seaview African Baptist Church bulldozed in 1967"Nova Scotia in black context:People of African descent have been living in Nova Scotia for almost 300 years. In Acadia, from the early to mid 1700s, there were more than 300 people of African descent in the French settlement at Louisbourg, Cape Breton. In Halifax in 1751 there were 15 Black people.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have raised the issue of Human Trafficking several different times on MBEV.&nbsp; There is an article on Time.com that I want to share with you.&nbsp; 

The New Slave Trade In South Africa and The Campaign to Stop It by E. Benjamin Skinner

For a South African victim of human trafficking, this was the endgame. On a freezing night last July, Sindiswa, 17, lay curled in a fetal position in bed No. 7 of a state-run hospice in central Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets, the rusty bedpost and the linoleum floor. Sindiswa had full-blown AIDS and tuberculosis, and she was three months pregnant. Sweat poured from her forehead as she whispered her story through parched lips covered with sores. A few blocks away, the roars of rugby fans erupted from Free State Stadium. In June the roars will be from fans of the World Cup. 

Sindiswa's family was one of the poorest families in Indwe, the po]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING:SO WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING IN THE LIBRARY?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I went to the library this afternoon. Which is a usual part of my weekend ritual.&nbsp; This is one of my favorite activities.&nbsp; I live close enough to walk to the branch in my community. I bundled up and headed out.&nbsp; It is a pretty decent winter day here. I appreciate getting a breath of fresh air.

It was pretty busy when I arrived.&nbsp; The Metro is the only branch that is opened on Sundays now.&nbsp; Thanks to the recent budget cuts the other branches that were also opened on Sunday&nbsp;have to&nbsp; remained closed.&nbsp; 

While I am upstairs going through the music stacks, I hear the sound of ghetto loudness.&nbsp;You know what I am describing. That extra loud tone and smack talking conversation that goes on when individuals have connected in the wrong way. &nbsp;I know without moving from where I am standing that there is an argument going on down on the first floor.&nbsp; I don't move to see what is going on because I figure that it will be over in a matter of momen]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I was supposed to begin my new job on Thursday. That certainly was my plan.&nbsp; At least it was until I hit a snag.
Ohio Child Care Licensing laws require that all staff members have a physical.&nbsp; Which is fine with me and I certainly understand why this mandated. What I did not know is how the laws have changed regarding this requirement.

We now have to provide a copy of our shot records. Like all laws there is an exemption clause written in. People born after 1956 have to provide total information about their shots. People born before that year do not have to provide specific information. But this is not how the law is interpreted by providers and professional clearing houses.

I don't have to provide information about my measles vaccination. Why? Because of the year that I was born in. It seems that if you've had the measles or the vaccination then it is okay. I took the shots and also drank Sabin Vaccines.&nbsp;The taste is almost as bad as a shot. I wanted to smack someone]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Now that my professional life is settling down, I can re-focus my energies on posting on the subject of children and families.

I began a new blog this week. It is titled Early Childhood Educator.&nbsp; I plan to document the work that I am going to do with the children and their families at my new site. 

While I was searching for sites to add to my sidebar, I discovered an organization that I was not aware existed. The National Institute for Black Child Development. (NIBCD)&nbsp; This was like an oasis in the desert.&nbsp; There are other organizations that deal with the education and well-being of all children.&nbsp; NIBCD focuses in on our children and their families.

I feel very strongly that we have to be united in the effort to see that our children receive all that they need to be successful.&nbsp; That is not limited to what is taught in a classroom. Parents are always the first teachers in a child's world.&nbsp; I believe in utilizing all available resources to help in the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am having my own version of OSF this week.&nbsp; My theme is Old School Radio Jams.

While we were out today I listened to the radio. The party was on!&nbsp; 

This is just a small sampling of what I was feeling as we rolled down the highway.

Patrice Rushen:Haven't You Heard




Slave:Watching You


Janet Jackson:That's The Way Love Goes



I could continue my list cause 98.9 was definitely jammin!
I just wanted to share a little bit of what we were rocking to on a snowy Friday afternoon.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine The Amistad CaseBackgroundIn February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, a center for the slave trade. This abduction violated all of the treaties then in existence. Fifty-three Africans were purchased by two Spanish planters and put aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad for shipment to a Caribbean plantation. On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered the planters to sail to Africa. On August 24, 1839, the Amistad was seized off Long Island, NY, by the U.S. brig Washington. The planters were freed and the Africans were imprisoned in New Haven, CT, on charges of murder. Although the murder charges were dismissed, the Africans continued to be held in confinement as the focus of the case turned to salvage claims and property rights. President Van Buren was in favor of extraditing the Africans to Cuba. However, abolitionists in the North opposed extradition an]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PETA's use of First Lady's image in an advertisement angers White House

It looks like PETA and The First Lady are locking horns over the use of her image in their recent ad campaign.

According to Yahoo! News:The ad in question features the image of the first lady alongside the images of Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, and Carrie Underwood underneath the slogan, "Fur-free and fabulous!" The ads, which PETA says features "a bevy of the smartest, most stylish, and most influential women in America," are being plastered all over the Washington D.C. Metro mass transit system, in addition to appearing in various magazines and websites.



While Winfrey, Banks and Underwood are all on record as publicly endorsing PETA's anti-fur efforts, first lady Michelle Obama cannot endorse special interest groups such as PETA. Thus, the White House is mildly perturbed by the use of the first lady's image in the campaign.

"We did not consent to this," a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama said yesterday.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "White Nationalism"
Spoken Word Artist:Autumn Ashante
 


Autumn wrote this poem when she was seven years old.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine BIOGRAPHY:  Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941)In 1999, the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc. was established in Buffalo, New York in honor of Drusilla Dunjee Houston. The Institute is named after Houston’s 1917 poem entitled America’s Uncrowned Queens.  Like many African American women writers swallowed up and languishing in the historical gap, Houston is one of the most prolific and all but forgotten African American women writers of the 20th century. Considered a “historian without portfolio” and dismissed as a serious historian and writer by leading Black male historians of Post Emancipation and the Harlem Renaissance, e.g., W.E.B. DuBois, Alaine Locke, Carter G. Woodson and others, Houston burst on the historical literary scene in 1926 with Volume I of her magnum opus Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire Book 1: Nations of the Cushite Empire, Marvelous Facts from Authentic Records thought to represent the crowning achievemen]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have some good news to share! I have a new job and I will begin working again on&nbsp; Thursday.&nbsp; It is a better setting and an upgrade from my previous position. Thanks to everyone who shared encouragement! I really appreciate it.

I came home and did some reading on the inter-net.&nbsp; There were a few stories that caught my eye.

A Civil Rights Era icon is on his way to prison.&nbsp; Bobby De Laughter is the former Mississippi proscetuor who gained national fame by successful conviciting Brian De La Beckwith. De La Beckwith is the man who murdered Medgar Evers.&nbsp; (source)

An Obama effigy was discovered hanging in Plains, Georgia. The hometown of former POTUS Jimmy Carter. Mark this one as another blow to the myth of "post racial" America.
(source)&nbsp; In fact, the effigy was hung on a sign that says, "Plains, Georgia Home of the 39th President Jimmy Carter"
(source)

Once again an act of Domestic Terrorism has occurred. This time in Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp; A gunman w]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW In January of 2008, one of the stories that I posted about was a shooting death of an unarmed&nbsp;mother in Lima, Ohio.&nbsp; Tarika Wilson was shot and killed while walking down the stairs during a drug raid on her home. At the time of the shooting Tarika was carrying her one year old son who was also shot by the officer.&nbsp; His injuries resulted in an amputation of his finger. (link to the Toledo Blade)

On January 1, 2010 it is being reported that the family of Tarika Wilson has been awarded a $2.5M in a wrongful death settlement.&nbsp; (WTOL11)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Congratulations to The Ohio State Buckeyes! 

The Ohio State Buckeyes won the Rose Bowl today. 
Oregon played a fierce game and we have much respect for your competitve spirit!

But, I am a member of The Buckeye Nation and we spell football 

O-H-I-O!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[USPS TO HONOR NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUE]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW The United States Postal Service has announced that there will two stamps honoring The Negro Baseball League. 

According to Baseball Digest.
The Negro Leagues Baseball stamps, to be issued in June, pay tribute to the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. Drawing some of the most remarkable athletes ever to play the sport, including Satchel Page&nbsp;and Josh Gibson, the Negro leagues galvanized African-American communities across the country, challenged racist notions of athletic superiority, and ultimately sparked the integration of American sports.




The Negro Leagues Baseball stamps pay tribute to the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. The two 44-cent stamps comprise one scene painted by Kadir Nelson. (source)
(h/t to Janet over the Hinterland Gazette)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IN ALL YOUR GETTING OF KNOWLEDGE-GET YOURSELF SOME AFRICLASSICAL]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I publish three blogs on Blogger. The other two are entirely different than MBEV. The Renaissance Gallery features nothing but videos on the subject of African American History (Our Story). The Art of Afro Zen Gardening is my outlet during gardening season and the space where I do some personal musings and spiritual writings.

I just posted a recommendation about a blog&nbsp;on TAAZG, (how's that for shortening a name?) that I wanted to share here.

AfriClassical is a blog that I've been following for about a month. I discovered while doing some research on African Americans in the field of Classical Music.&nbsp; It is definitely all that, in my opinion.&nbsp; It is a treat to read and believe me, you will learn some historical facts that are worth knowing.

It is well written and informative.&nbsp; I think that it is definitely a blog worth visiting. Even if you don't like classical music, that does not mean that you should not become familiar with the subject matter. I think that yo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Photo Image by Andrew Scrivani New York Times

I love Collard Greens!&nbsp; Seriously! They are number one on my vegetable list. &nbsp; I have been known to prepare a pot for my family and eat them all before they even get one forkful.&nbsp; I like my greens with tomatoes, onions, a little salt and pepper and some vinegar. Put some corn bread on the side and it is on! 

The New York Times has a recipe posted that caught my eye. Stuffed Collard Greens.&nbsp; The contents of this dish is supposed to bring good luck during the year.&nbsp; 

In our culture Black Eyed Peas is one of those foods that we are supposed to eat for luck.&nbsp; I'm tell you that it ain't gonna happen at my house.&nbsp; I do not like Black Eyed Peas at all. I have tried different recipes and no matter what they are prepared with-they just do not taste that good to me. I do eat a tablespoon full during Thanksgiving. It is to honor the ancestors bitter times during Middle Passage and slavery. 

The recipe for Stuff]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am going to begin the year by sharing what happened to me yesterday at my former place of employment.&nbsp; No, I did not quit my job.&nbsp; I was laid off by the owner of the site. 

This move really did not surprise me.&nbsp; We lost two funding sources and the state has cut back on its child care allotments.&nbsp;

When I arrived home yesterday after politely saying "c'ya!" I sent out my resume to three perspective employers. I have three interviews for positions. 

This is not the first time that I have been laid off.&nbsp; It is actually the second time.&nbsp; The first time I took a voluntary lay off to be of support to my parents during their difficult transitional period.&nbsp; I already had a vast working knowledge of the different social services available in my community. I&nbsp; made my first and most important connection yesterday. I re-opened my unemployment claim with the state.

I was offered a sub position.&nbsp; This was really more insulting than my former employer]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I wanted to say thanks to the people who have supported my efforts this year.&nbsp; When I began From My Brown Eyed View two years ago, I honestly had no idea what blogging would bring into my life.&nbsp; I have learned a lot and connected with some really good folks.&nbsp; That has made this experience worthwhile.

As we close the door on 2009 and step into 2010-I hope that you have a good beginning to the year.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine I lost interest in history at the time I found out that all that was to be said about my heritage was that my ancestors were slaves and before that heathen savages and cannibals and such. Our contribution to American Culture was Negro Spirituals. What a snow job. I remember we used to play the "you be such and such a character" in school and I wanted to be Cheyenne, a favorite cowboy character of a TV program by the same name but my classmates were like you can't be Cheyenne, Ray can be Cheyenne you be the Kingfish ( an Amos and Andy  character). Hell, Ray couldn't even ride a horse and I rode broncos (for real!) Since I was raised in The Rural Northeast, went to a predominately white school, and didn't have anyone teaching me otherwise. I didn't go to college or University or have access to big city libraries so I had to wait for "The Internet" to come to my rescue and did it ever.Now it's my pleasure to share with you some of the treasures I find for example if I had known about the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW ''Lahir 2008"Spoken Word Artist:Rubin Paul Singh]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW This post is for a young woman that I know. A sista that is currently pregnant and due to deliver her baby soon. A sista who is involved in an abusive relationship. It is difficult for me to understand why any woman remains in a situation where her well-being is constantly threatened. This particular young woman already has quite an extensive back story of being physically and verbally abused. No amount of pleading from her family or sista friends has been strong enough to motivate her to leave this relationship. She has defended her man's actions time and time again. Which makes it really difficult to continue to try and encourage her to leave before she is killed. Understanding why this sista refuses to leave is difficult for other women to fathom. We all say the same thing each time we hear about another episode, "I'd of been long gone the first time he hit me." "I would have to do something to him." etc. etc. If this male was in a relationship with any of us-he'd would eventually b]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Mitrice Richardson had no money, food, water, identification or cell phone, and was released by police to wander in a desolate area of canyons and wildlife foreign to her, while obviously in a depressed state of mind. Mitrice Richardson is loved and supported by her family and friends. Mitrice Richardson is in a crisis and is in danger, support is needed to find her. We are asking for a federal investigation into the whereabouts of Mitrice Richardson. Now she's missing. Just Shaking My Head.Read more in The Los Angeles Sentinel]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I just finished reading a great article on the NPR site. "No Batteries Required" details how board games are becoming popular again. Which is a good thing in my mind. We still play board games and cards at family gatherings. My sons are hardcore Monopoly players. The last time that they played I received several phone calls during the game to verify rules, to listen to smack talk and how it sucked to be in debt and broke.I admit that I am seriously working on obtaining a Wii. I think that it is going to be fun to play in the privacy of my home. I love tech toys and Wii is on my list of wants. But, I have never gotten totally away from board games. They are a part of our recreational lifestyle. We all have different game sets at our homes. My children learned that when there is no electricity available a board game is a great way to pass the time.Board games are a great way to teach skills to children. They also provide much entertainment when the players are prone to talk trash while t]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW The Jazz Loft is a series that is currently being featured on NPR's site.  For people who are really into jazz and appreicate learning more about the people who made the music, this is a series that you don't want to miss.In the late '50s and early '60s, photographer W. Eugene Smith lived in a dilapidated building where the era's top jazz musicians frequently stopped by to play jam sessions. He made approximately 4,000 hours of reel-to-reel tape recordings, and took nearly 40,000 photos, of the goings-on in the loft. Every Sunday in December, NPR's Weekend Edition presents highlights from The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series on WNYC. (Source) The photo image  of  The Loft was taken by W. Eugene Smith. ——-]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I meant to wish everyone Merry Christmas on Friday.  I was planning to jump on my laptop and post a seasonal greeting after my family departed.  Quite frankly, I was too tired to do so. Three of my five  grandchildren are under the age of three. They wore me out during the time that they were here.  Last year, two of them were not walking and they did their holiday in a stationary position.  They looked really cute sitting in their carriers. This year-they are mobile and busy as all get out.  From the moment they hit the door they were in motion.  To add on the confusion and chaos, one of the girls received a guitar as a present from her maternal grandmother. A guitar that not only plays music-this torture device makes animal noises too.  As a grandmother, I can appreciate the motivation behind such a toy. It is our job to purchase annoying toys that will never be used at our homes.  It is our way to pay back our children for all their annoying toy requests over the years.  I just neve]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW On the 27th of each month a group of bloggers post on the subject of Human Rights. I want to share a video with you to end up this year. The Story of Human RightsPlease take time to visit The Roots of Humanity. You can learn more about different Human Rights issues.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[DOCUMENTARY FILM:UNEVEN FAIRWAYS]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I love to watch documentary films.  I try to view at least one during the weekend.Today I want to recommend a film that I just finished viewing.  The title of the film is "Uneven Fairways".  It is about the history of Black golfers.  I have to say that it is quite an educational experience.  Tiger Woods and every other Black golfer currently on the circuit need to give much respect to the men and women who had to work around the racial barriers to play the game.Of course you know that I have a free connect for you to view the film.  Here is the link to Uneven Fairways.  I hope that you take time to check this film out!]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW (The Boys Choir of Harlem:Image from The New York Times:Michelle V. Agins)We have lost a national treasure. The Boys Choir of Harlem is no longer performing. I learned this information from an article on The New York Times.com. A Quiet End for Boys Choir of Harlem by Sharon Otterman.When I read the article it made me feel sad on one hand. The Boys Choir of Harlem gave outstanding performances. I had the opportunity to see them perform live and it was simply beautiful! The ironic thing about the end of this choir is highlighted in the article.Led by Dr. Turnbull, who started the group in 1968, the choir sang at the White House for nearly every president since Lyndon B. Johnson, and it was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Bill Clinton. But it did not survive long enough to perform for the country’s first black president. The problems that caused the demise of this group are many. We need to take note of what not to do when setting up and running an organization. I am hoping that]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Co-Founders Dotun Adebayo and Carroll Thompson Launch  www.colourtelly.tvNu Skool TV (on colourtelly.tv)"By under-serving or neglecting minority viewers altogether, says Adebayo, the mainstream broadcasters have left a yawning gap in the market." "It starts with the Afro Hair &amp; Beauty show at Alexandra Palace in the last weekend of May and it ends with Black History Month in October, with huge events like [the Notting Hill] carnival in between." But rather than nibbling on canapés and circulating, glass-in-hand, at such events, Adebayo and his wife, the singer Carroll Thompson, have been hard at work, frantically dishing out DVDs to promote their new venture www.colourtelly.tv, Britain's first-ever general interest black internet TV station."Read more at Black UK Online]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[WORD ON WEDNESDAY 12/23/09]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW ''I Have a Dream"Spoken Word Artist:Ms. Anna Mwalagho]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Madame C.J. WalkerMadame C.J. Walker businesswoman and philanthropist generally believed to be the first black female millionaire in the United States.The Legacy of Madam CJ Walker Part IThe Legacy of Madam CJ Walker Part IIDoing Indy Episode 42 - Madame Walker Building Don't let this be the last you hear about this truly fascinating woman. Her story is inspiring and a model as to how it is possible, through steadfast hard work and imagination to achieve incredible goals.Madame Walker not only trained thousands but taught them to be socially responsible at the same time. She embodies the the example of the best our race and our country has to offer.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Remembering The Homeless Who Have Passed during 2009Today is the first day of Winter in America. December 21st is known to have the longest hours of night within its twenty-four hour time frame. It is also the day when people take time to memorialize the homeless people who have died in this nation during 2009. I may have crossed your path during the day.Saw you standing or sitting in the midst of the crowd watching others move along to destinations unknown. We often turn our heads away when you attempt to make eye contact. Your presence is a living reminder of how blessed we are because of what we have in our lives. It is not your physical presence that causes the turn of our heads or the downward casted eyes. It is our personal fears that creates the diversion. That personal inner voice that says-"This could be you."  That is a personal fear that we would rather ignore than face.I don't know when or how you died. Perhaps you experienced the good death that we all imagine that we want]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL OF OUR BLESSINGS FLOW!Seasons Greetings from my household to yours!Today I wanted to share some of my favorite seasonal songs with you.Silver and Gold Sax Quartet:Christmas FavoritesGod Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:Cracker JazzWho Could Imagine A King? Dr. JayHave a blessed day!  May God watch over you and your loved ones.  Merry Christmas to you and your household!Inspirational Sunday is a meme created by my sista over at Sojourner's Place. Please visit her site and see what she has prepared for you today.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am recovering from an injury that occurred at work.  An angry little girl was throwing a temper tantrum last week.  She expressed her displeasure over being left at the center by her mother by biting me.  The child sunk her teeth into my left arm hard enough to send me to the emergency room.  I had to have a tetanus shot and I'm still taking antibiotics to prevent infection.The fist size bruise that blew up on my arm the next day is finally fading.  It looked like I had been struck by someone.The child's mama was surprised when she was sent home and suspended for a day.  She didn't think that her little angel had really done any damage.  Ha!  When I showed her the area-she cringed and apologized for her child.I had to force her mother to even talk to me.  When her daughter returned she dropped her off and shot of the door before we could talk.  I waited to see her that evening.  A word of advice to parents who have children in child care centers.  When your child does something like]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Night MusicRahsaan Roland Kirk "Misty &amp; I Want Talk" Live Montreux 1972Background informationBirth name Ronald Theodore KirkBorn 7 August 1935Died 5 December 1977 (aged 42)Genres jazz (hard bop)Occupations musician, composer, arranger, bandleaderInstruments tenor saxophone, clarinet, stritch, manzello, flute, whistlesLabels King, Chess, Prestige, Mercury, Limelight, Verve, Atlantic, Warner BrothersWebsite http://www.alfanet.hu/kirk/index2.htmlRahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1935[1] – December 5, 1977) was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the ability to play several instruments simultaneously.wiki bio]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Professor James Small was born in 1945, on Arcadia plantation, located on the banks of the Waccamaw River. This Lowland rice plantation is located where the Waccamaw, Peedee, and Black Rivers converge to meet the Atlantic Ocean, on the shores of historic Georgetown, South Carolina. Prof. Small was born to a family that traces their descent from enslaved Africans, to the Yoruba, Akan, and Ewe people of West Africa. Prof. Small's heritage also stems from the Native American ancestors that inhabited these South Carolinian shores. Both his maternal great-grandmother and his paternal great-grandmother were members of the Chicora Nation, and made their home along the mighty Waccamaw River.Prof. Small graduated from the all Black Howard High School in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1964. He then served in the U.S. Navy for two years during the Vietnam era. Upon his release from military service, Prof. Small moved to New York City where he joined the organization of Afro-American Unity founded]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I received this information from Moms Rising regarding Wal Mart's practices towards employees.This holiday season, millions of Wal-Mart employees are living in fear of getting demerits, losing pay, or being fired simply because they take sick days [1].  It happened to this family:"My husband just got fired for missing sick days.  He missed 5 1/2 days in  6 months."  This MomsRising member reports that these were days when her husband had legitimate doctor's notes or when her husband's manager sent him home because of flu symptoms. He received "demerits" when he took this needed sick time, and "The day after Black Friday… they called him in and fired him for missing too many days in 6 months.  He did not take off 'weekends, sunny days,  or go fishing'…he was sick.  This is just wrong."Wal-Mart's policy is not just unhealthy and unfair for employees, it also could harm customers and the general public.  With about 1.4 million employees in the U.S. [2] -- that's a lot of people who co]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "Sick"Spoken Word Artist:Cuban]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Did Benazir Bhutto actually say Osama Bin Laden had been murdered?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine Well it sure sounded like that to me. Does anyone have an explanation to clarify this statement was it a slip of the tongue or is it just aa slip up?  It's definitely one those things that make you wanna go hmmmmmm.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL OF OUR BLESSINGS FLOW!Today I would like to share a video with you by Iyanla Vanzant titled:The Spirit of a ManThis meme was created by my on line twin sista over at Sojourner's Place.  Please visit her site and see what she has prepared for your spiritual uplift.  I hope and pray that you and your loved ones have a good week.  May your going out and coming back in be blessed with safety.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine The Peace Rally in DC on December 12, 2009 has not gotten much exposure.I found something in The Washington Post. Otherwise there really isn't a lot of reportage on this event, sad. I did find something at 911blogger.com. Some commentary and some youtube clips. There are 2 clips here of Mckinney and Kucinich.Ex-Rep. McKinney: "President Obama, Stop Bankrupting our Nation-----------------------------------------------------------------------Rep. Kucinich: BILLIONS FOR BAILOUTS BONUSES AND BOMBS---------------------------------------------------------------------]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW December 9, 2001 was one of the most painful days in our family circle. On this date my first born granddaughter passed from a viral infection. Even though eight years have passed since her death, the events of that day are still fresh on my mind. I can recall all of the events that took place on that Sunday. Plus all of the moments that followed until we laid her to rest.What I cannot do is imagine her as an eight year old child. The vision that I have of her will forever be that of a little girl with a big smile. I have learned how to mourn through her passing. There have been days when I find myself wondering what she would be like if she was still alive? What would we share as family? How would she sound as she shared the important moments in her life? These are questions that I will never have answered. This was God's will in her life and I have learn how to accept what has happened.Today, I don't feel the pain or the river of tears that we shed for our little girl. She is at peac]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black Media Mine The Harlem Children's Zone Project is an example of what we must do to rebuild our community's infrastructure. We will all have to involve ourselves and do whatever it takes to insure that this and programs like it thrive every where there are children in need of upliftment. We all have to do our best to raise the funds to make it happen. Our children deserve a stake in the future of this country and we can make it happen, as the work of Geoffry Canada has shown us.Called "one of the most ambitious social-service experiments of our time," by The New York Times, The Harlem Children's Zone Project is a unique, holistic approach to rebuilding a community so that its children can stay on track through college and go on to the job market.The goal is to create a "tipping point" in the neighborhood so that children are surrounded by an enriching environment of college-oriented peers and supportive adults, a counterweight to "the street" and a toxic popular culture that glorifies misogyny and]]></description>
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