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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Amid downturn, trying time for Oblate nuns]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ These are trying times for the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Catholic sisterhood started by women of African descent in 1831. The recession is drying up charitable contributions, and the meager income they earn from teaching is being lost as aging nuns retire. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Now that I have seen the movie "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," I'm all the more bewildered by its enthusiastic reception, especially in the white media. The fictional story revolves around a black teenager, Claireece "Precious" Jones, who is raped by her father, gets pregnant by him -- twice -- and endures the depravity of her psychopathic mother. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Epaulettes and medals aside, respect should be uniform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A remarkable transformation occurs when men and women don their military uniforms among civilians. They get handshakes and compliments and broad smiles. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: D.C. sports fans need a bull rodeo]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Maybe it's because I'm from Louisiana, home of the world famous Angola state prison rodeo, but I think the world bull riding championship being held this week in Las Vegas is more exciting than the World Series. Getting beaned by a pitched ball can make headlines, but it hardly compares to the drama of being stomped to within an inch of your life by a one-ton bovine.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105559666" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105559666" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy column on indecent exposure case]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Just two pages into my King James Version of the Holy Bible, which my parents gave me when I was 10, the creation story took a devilish turn. Adam and Eve are happily naked in the Garden of Eden -- until they eat that apple. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the sidelines, the sad symbol of a sorry tradition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Poor Chief Zee. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: No Use in Studying for This Test]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It's teachable-moment time again for D.C. public school students, so let's get started. Question: Firing 229 teachers six weeks into the school year is: ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where Is Obama as Unemployment Among Blacks Rises?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ At a job training center that serves a largely black population in the District, a photograph of President Obama hangs on a wall with signs that say, "Yes, I can," and "Yes, you can." But when it comes to Obama actually addressing the devastating rise in unemployment among African Americans, those words might as well read: Sure I could, but no, I won't.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105604266" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105604266" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Psst. Hate Scams? Then Use Common Sense.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ To combat ever more brazen attempts to bilk consumers, the Federal Trade Commission recently launched Operation Short Change. You can go to the FTC Web site to learn more. Or, you can read on and learn about my surefire SuckerNoMoreTM anti-scam program. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy on the Washington Redskins' Nickname]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In response to widespread disagreement over the meaning of the name Redskins, I have crafted this interpretive totem pole of words, in lieu of a peace pipe, to help guide at least some Washington football team fans along the path to enlightenment. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Obama Needs to Follow Through With Threats to Call Out Foes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ On several occasions this year, President Obama has expressed with certain bravado a threat to "call out" anyone who would undermine his reform efforts. The problem is that the Ivy League gentleman from Hawaii appears not to have mastered this coarsened art of the streetwise rebuke and, as a result, he tends to come off as bluffing. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: For Some of Us, Health-Care Reform Begins at Home]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ During a recent visit to my cardiologist, I was asked, "Do you eat red meat?" An occasional burger, I lied. But a high cholesterol count had already tipped my hand. The doctor prescribed medication and recommended that I switch from burgers to broiled chicken and fish.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105607848" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105607848" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Good to Hear Gil Scott-Heron's Voice Again]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In recent years, I'd heard more about the griot-poet Gil Scott-Heron than from him. Troubles with money, health, drugs and the law were said to have muted a man whose words had given rhythmic meaning to the cultural and political upheavals of our time. As rumors of his ruin spread, I figured never to hear him perform again. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fiscal Stimulation for the Imagination]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I recently visited the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to watch money being made. Call it a cheap thrill while waiting for some real economic stimulation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: A Case Study in Successful Drug Rehab]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ After being hooked on drugs for nearly half her life, Rozetta Boggan, 56, has been drug-free for seven years. No more crack cocaine. No alcohol. No heroin. She has her own apartment in Alexandria and a job setting up displays at the Washington Convention Center. No more hanging out in crack houses, no more dealing to support her habit. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Professor Gates Should Skip the Blather and Sue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Now that our "national debate" on race has ended with beer in the Rose Garden, let's get serious. If Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates believes that he has been subject to false arrest, racial profiling, harassment and public humiliation by police in Cambridge, Mass., then he should press his grievance in a court of law.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105611325" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105611325" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Supreme Court Got It Wrong on Firefighters Rights]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Here's a question I made up to include on any exam for fire chief, especially in cities with racially troubled fire departments, such as New Haven, Conn., and the District of Columbia: ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Man in the Mirror Loathed His Reflection]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What killed Michael Jackson? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: After Metro Crash, Heavy Hearts Are at Least a Shared Weight]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Before one Metro train crashed into another Monday, I was in a state of angst. The three whiners inside my head were at it again: Me, Myself and I. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Obama Leads Conversation on Fathering by Example]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama, regular guy, was telling a gathering of mostly young black men about his experiences as a dad. He recalled an urgent drive to the hospital with his then-pregnant wife, Michelle, as well as an oh-so-careful ride back home with her and their newborn baby on board.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105615074" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105615074" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Digital TV May Promise More Than It Delivers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as "Howdy Doody," "I Love Lucy," "The Nat King Cole Show" and "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," I have decided to let my portable analog set die in peace. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy on the Debut of 'Anne and Emmett']]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ You can tell when an actor owns the role, personifies the spirit of the character being portrayed. And so it was Friday night at George Washington University that two broken-hearted witnesses to hate breathed love and life into a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Cappie Awards Put Spotlight on D.C. Area Teens at Their Best]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ On the night that three youngsters won Tony Awards for best actor in "Billy Elliot," 10 times as many teenagers were receiving accolades for theater performances right here at home. I'll match the talent shown by youngsters at our own Cappie Awards, held Sunday at the Kennedy Center, with anything you might have seen at Radio City Music Hall in New York. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Play Reminds Us of Our Duty to Remember]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ During a high-society luncheon in Washington a few years ago, Janet Langhart Cohen mentioned that she was writing a book about "growing up in apartheid America." Langhart Cohen is black. Another luncheon guest, who is Jewish, was taken aback.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105621564" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105621564" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: D.C. Council Member Defends Squeezing Suburban Scofflaws]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ So, which commuters are the worst drivers in the Washington area? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy on the Navy's Slow Boat to Diversity at the Top]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It seems appropriate on this Memorial Day to burnish two new red-letter dates in U.S. Naval history: ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Drug Treatment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In an effort to recast substance abuse as more of a public health problem than a crime, the nation's newly appointed drug czar has called for an end to talk of a "war on drugs." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Online Readers Should Tone Down the Invective]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Who are you people?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105625791" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105625791" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Disparity in Drug Laws Tears Black Families Apart]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There's a law that some experts say contributes mightily to the destruction of low-income African American families and neighborhoods. It's not a law that specifically prohibits them from getting a job or a loan or buying a home or voting. But the effect is often the same. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Portrait of a Gifted Homeless Woman]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Mystery shrouds the woman who sleeps on the streets in downtown Washington. Did she really attend Juilliard, as she claims? She can play the piano; that much is certain. And she can draw as well. Her color pencil portraits are exquisite. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: U.S. Needs a Better Way of Dealing With Drug Addiction]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The year is 2012. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Easter Monday at Zoo Does Not Honor African American Family]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you visited the National Zoo on Monday and followed the signs that read "Meet a Gorilla" and the ones that read "Celebrate the African American Family," you'd end up pretty much in the same place. Toward the back entrance, you'd find apes playing in a yard at the Great Ape House and, on a smaller grassy enclave across from it, you'd see children at the black family gathering doing the same.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105630014" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105630014" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Firefighters' Suit Raises Questions About Racial Progress]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to the D.C. fire department, racial progress for blacks has been won through decades of protests and civil rights litigation. Even when President Ronald Reagan tried to turn the department into a centerpiece of his campaign to eliminate affirmative action in the 1980s, the city's elected officials firmly resisted his efforts. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Readers Respond to Worries About Son's Interest in Military]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In response to a recent column about whether my youngest son should stay in college or join the military, I received quite a bit of feedback--including from the kid himself. "Why'd you put my business in the streets like that?" he asked. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In AIDS Crisis, Serious Times Call for Serious Measures]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In response to a report released Monday on the HIV/AIDS crisis in the District, city officials say they plan to develop a new and improved public awareness campaign. Such efforts will no doubt take time and involve focus groups and require lots of data and even more money. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Courtland Milloy: Columnist Reacts to Son's Thinking About Leaving College and Joining the Military]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ My youngest son, who is 19, recently told me that he was thinking about leaving college and joining the military. With the United States still waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the stage is set for what will likely be our most important talk since the "birds and bees" thing more than a decade ago.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105636022" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105636022" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Columnist Courtland Milloy Encouraged by Response to Racist Graffiti in Charles County, Maryland]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When Smith Chapel in Charles County was defaced with racist graffiti last month, Pastor Lucius Ross responded the following Sunday with a sermon titled "What to Do When Hate Hits Home." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's So Funny About Madea? Nothing.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I went to see the Tyler Perry movie "Madea Goes to Jail," in which Perry plays a wise-cracking black grandmother, Madea, short for "Mother Dear" and ebonically pronounced "muh deah." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A D.C. Adoption Success Story]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When I met C. Kenneth Johnson in 1991, he had already adopted five children and was in the process of adopting 22-month-old twins. A spry 62 at the time, he was a case worker for the D.C. Office of Paternity and Child Support known for taking his work home, literally, embraced in his loving arms. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Education Still the Pathway to Freedom]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In recognition of Black History Month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has presented a flattering economic sketch of black people in the United States. In this drawing by the numbers, we are seen as a relatively young and hearty workforce -- 17 million black people strong -- poised to weather the difficult economic times ahead.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105642821" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105642821" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[D.C. Ice Rink Needs Your Windy City Flint, Mr. President]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Allow me to pick up the icy gauntlet that President Obama threw down on the District during last week's snowfall. And then, with all due respect, throw a challenge back to him. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Nature's Way Of Telling Us to Chill]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I love snow. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Mother's Lasting Values Shine Through Obama's Words]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Did you see Barack Obama's mother at his swearing-in yesterday? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[O, the Doggerel That Might Have Been]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I wanted to write an inaugural poem<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105647090" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105647090" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ensuring A Veteran's Service Stands Test of Time]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The remains of an 80-year-old District resident were interred at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday after lying unclaimed in the D.C. morgue since April last year. There was no family on hand to grieve, no next of kin to receive the flag that draped his coffin; just a few concerned veterans, a chaplain's prayer and a seven-gun salute. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Too Much Waste, Too Little Care Feed the Hunger in Our Midst]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Hungry people were already waiting near a liquor store in Seat Pleasant when the food van arrived the other day. Volunteers from First Baptist Church of Glenarden formed a prayer circle with them and began handing out lunch bags. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where's the Justice for Swindled Kids?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Reporting for jury duty in Prince George's County the other day, I was eager to help mete out some justice. But the cases I had in mind would have required a special court, one where the county's black elected officials could be tried as sellouts. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wanted: A Miracle of Compression]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ You were amused by a YouTube video of 19 boys crammed into a car the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105651443" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4824105651443" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AIDS: D.C.'s Silent Stalker of Women]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Can we talk frankly about HIV/AIDS and black women? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Life Well Seasoned With Faith And Gratitude]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Eloise Copeland, 72, is not afraid. ]]></description>
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