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		<title>YOU, The Incredible Actor, Writer &amp; Director In The Play Called “Life”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Falco &#160; You are a perfect creation here for a perfect purpose and reason. What’s the reason, you ask? The reason is self-expressed by every role you have played your entire life. The reason comes through in every choice and decision you have made and by every interaction with every person you have ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Hairstyle Hurting You?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain hairstyling practices can result in serious hair and scalp diseases for some black women, an expert warns. “Hair is an extremely important aspect of an African American woman’s appearance,” Dr. Diane Jackson-Richards, director of Henry Ford Hospital’s Multicultural Dermatology Clinic in Detroit, said in a hospital news release. “Yet many women who have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iman: Black Women Use Makeup Too!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Stores won’t sell Iman’s cosmetics line for women of color BY: GERIT QUEALY JUNE 11, 2012 LEAVE A COMMENT PRINT SOURCE: DAVID LIVINGSTON/GETTY Don&#8217;t you think Iman&#8217;s successful makeup line should be easily accessible on store shelves? OK, this makes no sense at all. Supermodel and super entrepreneur Iman, 56, started a makeup line for women of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: USA does well in wealth, not so much in happiness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A study being released today shows the United States may be on top when it comes to acquiring wealth, but it doesn&#8217;t measure up as well when it comes to happiness and life span,MSNBC is reporting. &#160; CAPTION By Gabriel Bouys, AFP/Getty Images The study of well being, known as the Your Better Life Index, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Things You Can Inherit From Your Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many aspects of our health are genetically linked. For example, according to researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research at the University of London, there’s a 57 percent chance that a girl will start menstruating within three months of the date that her mother began. Read: Mom’s Head-To-Toe Guide To Staying Healthy Here are eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Different Definitions of Entrepreneurial Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowne-Bars © by Mark Herpel (2008) What does true entrepreneurial success look like? Is it by number of books sold, number of columns secured, number of press hits, number of blog subscribers, or revenue? I asked ten rock star entrepreneurs: How have you defined your success as an entrepreneur so far? And what is your advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s ex-girlfriend: what her diaries reveal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As a recent college grad in New York, Barack Obama fell in love with a young white woman named Genevieve Cook. Passages from her diary appear in a new biography of the president. By Linda Feldmann, Staff Writer / May 3, 2012 President Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color matters: Miss Black France pageant held in Paris</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[France&#8217;s first ethnic beauty contest for only black women is causing a controversy. A pageant to be held in Paris has split opinions in French society. Despite the fact Miss Black France was widely supported, many people still believe that it might have a &#8220;This contest is a defeat of our values… These girls need [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many, sleeping through our morning jog? We may have been super-inspired by the incredible brain-boosting properties of exercise. We may have had every intention to start an exercise plan and stick to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOMA gala celebrates Chef Leah Chase&#8217;s ninth decade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published: Monday, April 23, 2012, 11:34 AM     Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012, 12:35 PM  By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune  Follow It&#8217;s unusual for the New Orleans Museum of Art to schedule a gala on a Monday night, but that&#8217;s the way chef Leah Chase wanted it. After all, most of her restaurant-world colleagues are off on Mondays, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Think Like A Man’ Tops Box Office</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michelle Kung Two new releases surpassed dystopian drama “The Hunger Games” at the box office this weekend, marking an end to the latter’s four-week reign as No. 1. The dating comedy “Think Like A Man,” from Sony Corp.’s Screen Gems division, exceeded studio expectations to gross $33 million from 2,015 locations, making it the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two black men accuse ABC of racial bias over &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) &#8211; Two black men who said they were &#8220;lookin&#8217; for love&#8221; and auditioned last summer for the popular ABC reality television show &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; sued the network on Wednesday, saying they were rejected because of their race. &#8220;They were tossed aside because of their race,&#8221; said Byron Perkins, one of a trio of prominent civil rights attorneys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday is Equal Pay Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Partnership Releases State-Specific Data and Rankings on the Wage Gap, Has Experts Available for Interviews WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8211; New data released for Equal Pay Day today reveal the significant costs of the country&#8217;s gender-based wage gap. The median yearly pay for women in the United States is $10,784 less than their male counterparts. African American women and Latinas fare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Steps to Happiness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ustadha Bint Ahmad A dynamic female scholar, Ustadha Bint Ahmad teaches the Islamic sciences and Arabic at Al Zahra &#8216;Ilmiyyah Institute and Al Arqam Academy and she is the main course instructor and author at Al Muhsinaat, London, UK Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Each and every human being [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The singer&#8217;s new ads will start airing Monday, April 9. By Dorkys Ramos Posted: 04/09/2012 11:05 AM EDT Janet Jackson recently joined the growing list of celebs that endorse weight loss programs. The singer reveals her trimmed body in two form-fitting ensembles for a Nutrisystem commercial that will air Monday, April 9. &#160; &#8220;For Janet, it&#8217;s about feeling good,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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