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		<title>Howls of protest at Dennis Brutus concert</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/howls_of_protest_at_dennis_brutus_concert.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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Written by John Chimunhu, Monday, 08 February 2010 10:53
HARARE &#8211; A memorial concert for the late Zimbabwe-born South African poet, academic and social activist, Dennis Brutus, turned into a howl of protest against President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s social policies.
The event on January 29 was organised by Zimcodd, Magamba Cultural Activist Network and SAPSN at the Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Haitian activist Rea Dol</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/interview_with_haitian_activist_rea_dol.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rea Dol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPUDEP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rea Dol is grassroots community organiser and founder of SOPUDEP school in Port-au-Prince.   Shortly after the earthquake they had to abandon the school which was being used as a shelter due to the stench of dead bodies and sturtural damage which made the building unsafe.  
For the school to continue it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henrietta Lacks: Stolen cells</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/henrietta_lacks_stolen_cells.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cervical cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HeLa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henrietta Lacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US medical experiments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  
I never heard of Henrietta Lacks until a few days ago. But I have heard of the Tuskeegee Experiment  in which 399 Black men were used as clinical samples for studying the late stages of syphilis. The men who were poor sharecroppers from Alabama,  where never told they had syphilis and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seun on Fela</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afrobeat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fela on Broadway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seun Kuti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Umaru Yar'Adua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After intensive pressure from members of the National Assembly, the media, trade unions, political activists and the Nigerian people, President Yar&#8217;Adua has agreed to hand over the Presidency to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan.   
I think Fela would have loved this &#8211; the beginnings of &#8220;people power&#8221; in Nigeria  &#8211; here Seun talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a language &amp; invasions of the mind</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/death_of_a_language_invasions_of_the_mind.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boa Sr]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linguicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6490</guid>
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Boa Sr, the last speaker of Bo’, &#8220;one of the ten Great Andamanese languages has died&#8221;.  The death of Boa Sr and the language she spoke is the end of 65,000 years of linguistic heritage and culture.
It is estimated that a language dies every two weeks and by 2100 90% of languages of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kampala – Uganda – “Desperate. Distraught”</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/kampala_-_uganda_-_desperate_distraught.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Uganda,  Gay Uganda reports on continuing police harassment and roundups of LGBT people &#8211; &#8220;knock on the door&#8221; 
Desperate. Distraught.
Now, the knock early morning on the door.
We say we shall run. But, what if we cannot run? We have family, jobs, businesses. We are normal human beings. Common Ugandans. What of when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian soldiers killing civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/nigerian_soldiers_killing_civilians_.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">1818310973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago.  Viewer Discretion is Advised &#8211; Sahara Reporters.  
By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK
Why do people flee Nigeria?
In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that Nigerian state security forces &#8220;continued to commit extrajudicial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem for Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/poem_for_nelson_rolihlahla_mandela.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/poem_for_nelson_rolihlahla_mandela.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Weapon
for Nelson Mandela
As you took up arms, ntate,
we stood by and admired your guns
and your uniform, while you prepared
to mount the country to kill railways
and post-offices, we nodded agreement,
we acknowledged how the continent
was a pistol facing earthward, with the trigger
right at Nigeria&#8217;s oily wars of religion between
once-peaceful regions, the left hand now hacking
and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN:   Human Rights Violations Against LGBTI People</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/un_human_rights_violations_against_lgbt_people.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/un_human_rights_violations_against_lgbt_people.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same sex marriage Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violations against Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa&#8217;s presentation to the UN on &#8220;Grave Human Rights Violations Against LGBT People in Africa&#8221;

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		<title>There’s always music, always hope</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/theres_always_music_always_hope.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/theres_always_music_always_hope.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haitian revolution]]></category>

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Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada
Via, Women and Beyond

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