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		<title>The Celebration continues&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you can download the latest issue of &#8220;Points Magazine&#8221; commemorating Black History Month and celebrating OUR MEN&#8230;
Click here for your copy of Points Magazine 
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		<title>this is just the beginning!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it happened.  More than 70 attendees, a vacation, a couple of metamorphoses, and a ridiculous aftervent later, here we are at the beginning of Celebration in Black.
Did you really think that this was a conclusion?
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		<title>It&#8217;s almost time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Sneak preview of the ManPan on Sunday, February 17th @ 1100a&#8230;ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Crossroads&#8221; with Melanie Lawson.
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Actually, let&#8217;s be honest and admit that its overdue.  I hear so many people talking about what black men don&#8217;t do and should do, that it&#8217;s amazing any of them do anything at all.
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		<title>for Kenya&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we first embarked on this event, I knew that it was something that &#8220;had to be done.&#8221;  I realized that our men were in a state of need as it relates to being encouraged and celebrated, and our future black men&#8230;well, they are in need, too. 
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		<title>REAL MEN&#8211;yes, they do exist. (About Real Men Cook)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Yvette and I see eye-to-eye about changing the world.  I wanted to share the Crusade of RMC with you so that you will see the greatness and the great vision that we as a community can embrace and manifest.
 sdm 
The Crusade




Real Men Charities, Inc. presents Real Men Cook events, launched Father’s Day 1990, as a national crusade to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=16&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I declare this event &#8220;life-changing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much that is going on with the black man&#8230;he is being stifled and suffocated, badgered and bothered, and in the midst of it all&#8230;still asked to be a leader on all fronts a well as a source of strength.  Think about the good black men that you know, and think about all that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=15&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will you join us? (AKA Ode to Our Men)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a brief moment since the last post, because I had to figure out just what to say next.  I figured out that this event is so very important.  There some men in my life, and I am sure in yours, that are fighters.  They get up every day and try to make someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=14&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why the black man?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since going covertly public with the theme for &#8220;Celebration in Black&#8221; I have been asked a few times, &#8220;why the black man?&#8221;  My answer is simple&#8230;because we need him.  Mind you, I am not just talking about ANY black man.  I am talking about the brothers who get up every morning with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=13&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>february 23, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the day that we culminate our celebration in black with &#8220;THE MAN PAN.&#8221; What&#8217;s a ManPan, you ask? The ManPan is a panel of dynamic black man discussing black men, black love, and anything else we can get them to talk about.
For the sistahs: This is your day to ask &#8220;him&#8221; everything you want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=12&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebration in Black (CIB), an exclamation points experience...is an intellectually-stimulating program of cultural achievement and social impact held during Black History Month.
CIB is for individuals who want to be a part of something different.  It&#8217;s an opportunity to come together with other conscious people and have an intellectual conversation.  Let&#8217;s discuss a few things&#8230;let&#8217;s make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebrationinblack.wordpress.com&blog=2240828&post=11&subd=celebrationinblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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