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	<title>Black Looks</title>
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		<title>&#8220;They would not help me before the quake. Why would I bother to ask them now?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/they-would-not-help-me-before-the-quake-why-would-i-bother-to-ask-them-now.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haitian women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Réa Dol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Save the Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPUDEP School]]></category>

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Haitian community activist Rea Dol talks about  SOPUDEP the school she started in 2000, the struggles to keep it going and surviving the earthquake&#8230; without the help of the &#8220;Republic of NGO&#8217;s&#8221;.  This is what happened to Rea and thousands of other Haitians who acted to help themselves.  They knew that from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and Sexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious intolerance]]></category>

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Bishop Tutu was born on 7 October 1931.
“Jesus did not say, ‘If I be lifted up I will draw some’.”
Jesus  said, ‘If I be lifted up I will draw all, all, all, all, all. Black,  white, yellow, rich, poor, clever, not so clever, beautiful, not so  beautiful.
It’s one of the most radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Deep River Song</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/a-deep-river-song.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Quarcoopome</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Deep river my home is over Jordan
But on which bank pray tell?
Feet straddling slippery wet spaces
Stretched out so wide my loins burn with
The desire for home
Firmly planted on either side
Alien Nation
Like sickness spreads from my feet through my blood
Flowing up to my head
River so deep dangerous drowns my reflection
My home is over Jordan
Across the river [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Nigeria: Abuja &#8211; the world: Enough is Enough. Where is Yar&#8217;Adua?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/nigeria-abuja-the-world-enough-is-enough-where-is-yaradua.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/nigeria-abuja-the-world-enough-is-enough-where-is-yaradua.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abuja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enough is Enough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Where is Yar'Adua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Jos Protest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=7133</guid>
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At 11am TODAY  young Nigerians will march to the National Assembly in Abuja to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH  and DEMAND:
1) President Yar’Adua should resume, resign or be removed
2) The promise of 6000megawatts must be fulfilled
3) The 5-month fuel crisis needs to end now.


Nigerians: March, Blog, Tweet, Talk, Print the leaflet and put in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Geoffrey!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/happy_birthday_geoffrey_philp.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=7132</guid>
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Geoffrey Philp has written a children&#8217;s book, Grandpa Sydney&#8217;s Anancy Stories, a novel, called Benjamin, My Son, books of short stories, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien as well as the more recent Who&#8217;s Your Daddy, and five poetry collections, among them Exodus and Other Poems, Florida Bound, hurricane center, xango music, and Twelve Poems and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A doctor in Nigeria: 1948</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/a-doctor-in-nigeria-1948.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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Via Heal Nigeria
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		<title>Senegalese film director, Mahaman Johnson Traore: &#8211; RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/senegalese-film-director-mahaman-johnson-traore-rip.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/senegalese-film-director-mahaman-johnson-traore-rip.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FESPACO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahaman Johnson Traore]]></category>
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Senegalese film director and one of the founders of the Pan-African Film festival [FESPACO], Mahaman Johnson Traore, died last Monday.  
Mark Coles talks to Keith Shire on the work of Johnson Traore, particularly his films which addressed &#8220;the politics of women&#8217;s position in their societies&#8221;.  Listen to the interview below. 


Via Bombastic Element
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		<title>Women of Jos protest in Abuja</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/women-of-jos-protest-in-abuja.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/women-of-jos-protest-in-abuja.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jos massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military of Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plateau State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Jos Protest]]></category>

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Nigerian women dressed in Black marched in Abuja to protest the massacres taking place in Plateau State.  The women  demanded the removal of the military commander in charge of security,  Maj-Gen. Saleh Maina.   Once again the Nigerian military,  who were supposed to be protecting the women and the villages, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting censorship in the face of &#8220;hyper-visibility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/confronting-hyper-visibility-in-the-face-of-censorship.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/confronting-hyper-visibility-in-the-face-of-censorship.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Lesbian and Bisexual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender DynamiX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lulu Xingwana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nandipha Mntambo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Last week South African Arts &#38; Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana walked out of  the Innovative Women exhibition claiming photographs by gender activist Zanele Muholi  and Nandipha Mntambo were pornographic.  Whilst the Minister is entitled to her own opinion she must be mindful of her status as a minister of government and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whiteness as an act of cultural dominance</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/whiteness-as-an-act-of-cultural-dominance.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/whiteness-as-an-act-of-cultural-dominance.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Del LaGrace Volcano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT History Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White privilege]]></category>

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&#8220;White people embarrass me&#8221; &#8211; A personal reflection on racism and white privilege in Britain amongst the LGBTIQ community by Del LaGrace Volcano.   The problem is not just  white privilege &#8211; its refusing to acknowledge it when challenged. 
White people embarrass me. Probably not quite as much as I embarrass myself but [...]]]></description>
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