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		<title>Interview- DJ Simbad pt1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another gem out the archives.  My interview with DJ Simbad. I was lucky to catch him while he was in town doing some gigs.  This man has traveled all over the world, rocking parties and doing his thing.  I had to especially pick his brain on the differences of cultures in the places he&#8217;s traveled. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Gifted &amp; Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julian Abelar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next set of interviews are coming from deep in the archives.  Took me a while to get to these cats, but better late than never right? About 2 years ago my home-girl Eve told me about a guy named Gifted &#38; Blessed that she thought we should interview.  A very striking name to me.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give the Legends Their Roses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heavy D]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roc Raida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teddy Pendergrass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teena Marie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vesta Williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last three years have been a very hard time for Music. Black music especially.  We have lost legends.  People who almost single-handedly changed the tide of music and were the soundtrack of at least 3-4 generations. These are just a few names: Michael Jackson, Etta James, Don Cornelius, Lena Horne, Gil Scot-Heron, Guru, Teddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Film- Past, Present, and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Cosby]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chewitel Ejiofor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba Gooding Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Oyelowo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denzel Washington]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudlin Bros.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hughes Bros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ice Cube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idris Elba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issa Rae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaime Foxx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurence Fishburne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Van Peebles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Chestnut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Epps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oscar micheaux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I want to be sure folks understand that my overview of Black Film history is extremely brief here and I do not profess to be a film history guru.  I will fully admit that many of the things stated here are generalized for the sake of brevity, and that an entire book could be [...]]]></description>
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