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		<title>Carib New York Music Lovers &#8211; A Memorable Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheron Pearson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All weekend I’ve been partying with the grown folks, but I should revise that term, because in reality the party people were of mixed ages. There were some in their 20s and 30s and then there were also the veterans. The group I’m talking about &#8211; NYMLA, or the New York Music Lovers of America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Crime and Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2010/05/16/music-crime-and-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Stanbury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who feels it, knows it. I quote this phrase today in reference to the scourge of crime and gun violence that has now invaded and taken control of the lives of many young Jamaicans. My comments are made not only as an active participant in the Jamaican music industry, but also as someone who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rex Nettleford &#8211; Country Boy to Urbane Icon</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2010/02/03/rex-nettleford-country-boy-to-urbane-icon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His is another of the stories of country come to town; the boy who left his dirt poor rural community for the brighter lights of his country’s tourist city of Montego Bay for his secondary schooling, who ended up an Oxford Rhodes scholar and then becoming head of the Caribbean’s premier institution of higher learning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoying the simple Life</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2010/01/20/enjoying-the-simple-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best meals I have ever had in my life was Janga rundung and pumpkin turn-cornmeal. In fact, I am ashamed to say that I have heard that our Maroon caterers at Millbank in Portland, Jamaica, are still talking about how I invaded their &#8220;outside&#8221; kitchen to get some more of that delicious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real McC(K)oy?</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/11/26/the-real-mcckoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which or who, in fact, is &#8220;the real McCoy&#8221; or is it &#8220;McKoy?&#8221; And what is the origin of this most common expression? Well, I should know, shouldn&#8217;t I? Though the newspaper&#8217;s proofreader misspells it occasionally, my name is actually &#8220;McCoy&#8221; with a &#8220;C,&#8221; not a &#8220;K.&#8221; And no, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sliver of Childhood</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/11/22/sliver-of-childhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney A. Hogarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a faint, unyielding redolence &#8211; announced by earth and sky &#8211; preceded rain and mingled aroma of my mother’s cooking. Symphony of raindrops married sound of bubbling, delicious fare. In not too few afternoons my mother hummed some tune, my grandmother too, seated in her red and blue armchair, silvery hair calling from beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Snow, Old Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/11/03/first-snow-old-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/courtney_a_hogarth" rel="nofollow">Courtney A. Hogarth</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I parted curtains yesterday to gaze upon a world blanketed in snow &#8211; thick, heavy and seemingly luscious. My mind raced back to that first winter spent in this ancient city, when it snowed heavily, as now. Then, the space I now occupy was farmland, and these buildings upstaging the landscape, nonexistent. Much has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looney Expeditions</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/07/16/sailing-on-their-ego-trips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[40 years after man lands on the moon hunger still stalks much of the global population.]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter of Coincidence</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/06/07/a-matter-of-coincidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Afua Asantewaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the small, rural community of Ave, in Ghana’s Volta Region, the majority of the citizens know best not to sneer at the old customs of their village, which are all steeped in the traditional religion of their Ancestors. Most of the five hundred citizens, including the elders, profess a belief in one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abeng in Beijing</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2009/02/05/abeng-in-beijing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fabian thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This poem by fabian thomas is timely if only because of the seeming double standard in the way the IOC has responded to Michael Phelps' latest episode with a ganja smoking bong. Bolt was chastised for celebrating his dramatic win the the 100 meters in Beijing.]]></description>
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