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		<title>#TheHelpers: Zora Neale Hurston January 7, 1891-January 28, 1960</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother&#8217;s side was not an Indian chief.&#8221; How it feels to be Colored Me, Zora Neale Hurston, 1928 #TheHelpers Home]]></description>
		
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		<title>#TheHelpers: Danny Thomas &#8211; January 6, 1912- February 6, 1991</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my first job out of college, I was an information specialist at a comprehensive cancer center. I wrote and edited flyers, pamphlets, newsletters and displays about cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment and I handled queries on a telephone hotline along with an amazing group of colleagues and volunteers. It was daunting, sometimes emotionally wrenching, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>#TheHelpers: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (January 5, 1938-May 28, 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o achieved distinction as a Kenyan-born scholar and author of Anglophone literature but decided at the height of his career to primarily write in his native Kikuyu language. He framed this decision as an extension of the anticolonial movement that led to Kenya&#8217;s independence, but in 1977, when he co-wrote and produced a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>#TheHelpers &#8211; Maria  Stewart (1803-December 17, 1879)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>#TheHelpers &#8211; Lucretia Coffin Mott: January 3, 1793- November 11, 1880</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Philadelphia, and its Quaker heritage was pervasive. We all learned about William Penn and his dream of &#8220;Greene Country Towne&#8221; in school. Billy Penn&#8217;s statue stands atop City Hall. I lived in an apartment complex owned by Quakers and its Neighborhood Guild sponsored by Girl Scout Troup and exposed me to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>#TheHelpers: John Hope Franklin, January 2, 1915 &#8211; March 25, 2009</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Hope Franklin, PhD was a groundbreaking historian and academic leader whose childhood was indelibly marked by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. His canonical 1947 African American History textbook, From Slavery to Freedom, is now in its 10th edition. He was an active public intellectual for more than 50 years, and we are fortunate that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing #TheHelpers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[January]]></description>
		
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		<title>#TheHelpers: Victor Reuther &#8211; January 1, 1912- June 3, 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Victor G. Reuther was one of three brothers who rose to the leadership ranks of the United Auto Workers, ultimately becoming their director of education. His advocacy for workers, human rights and racial equality exposed him to assassination attempts and unwanted scrutiny from both the US and Soviet governments. This 1992 interview about his life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Needed: AP style rules for AI agents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Journalist Evan Ratliff has been testing the most ambitious claims of tech industry leaders about the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence and reporting on the results in his podcast, Shell Game. He&#8217;s doing a brilliant job of helping his audience understand what this burgeoning technology may portend. In the first season, he created a synthetic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>August 28, 2023:  of anniversaries and beginning again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Monday, August 28, 1963 marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the occasion most remembered for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; oration. Over the weekend, thousands of people returned to the Lincoln Memorial for what organizers described as a &#8220;Not a commemoration &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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