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		<title>Parents Shouldn&#8217;t Let Kids Hug Kids.</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2012/03/25/parents-shouldnt-let-kids-hug-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids.  Middle school. Hugs. In an episode of comical head scratchers, a principal in New Jersey tells his middle schoolers that they were in a&#8221;no hugging school&#8221; following some &#8220;incidents of unsuitable, physical interactions.&#8221; Unclear is what the unsuitable, physical interactions though. What is interesting to me though is what a principal would hope to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Did You Learn This Black History Month? Let&#8217;s Ask Two Girls From Gainesville, FL&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I had the chance to experience ignorance unabated. Perhaps you have had the opportunity to read/hear about two young ladies &#8211; high school students at Gainesville High School &#8211; and their analysis of black people.  If you have not, check it out&#8230; How does that make you feel?  Nothing like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THERE’S ALWAYS MORE…</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2012/01/12/theres-always-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Advocator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; Republicans are unquestionably braver these days. Well, maybe not quite, but certainly more comfortable in their approach to political strategy. This may be drastically due to the understanding that popular dissent has been all but squashed by conservative separatist propaganda. Ironically, the same 1st Amendment advocates are the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2012/01/11/headline-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneChele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some headlines making their way through the news stations on this 1st of November. CNN: Stocks fall hard on Greece surprise. / In giving life, women face deadly risks. MSNBC: How a reformed skin head got a makeover. / Sales rise at Detroit’s big 3.    FOX: Obama, Exec too close for comfort? / Major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media is killing the Grand Old Party (GOP)</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/12/14/social-media-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LaKesha Womack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever coined the phrase “knowledge is power” was a genius! Implicit in that statement is the guide by which we should strive to live our lives.  We should always seek to attain more and more but rather seeking more consumer goods, we should seek more knowledge. Unfortunate for the GOP or Republicans, this quest for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YWB Spotlight: PolicyMic.com</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/21/ywb-spotlight-policymic-com/</link>
		<comments>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/21/ywb-spotlight-policymic-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We here at the Young Writer&#8217;s Block supports any cause which gets people involved and gives them a voice. So when I heard from Jordan over at PolicyMic.com&#8230;, and had a chance to view their site &#8211; I was impressed not only by the content and the presentation, but also by the work the people at PolicyMic are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YWB Spotlight: GenerationOn &amp; Make Your Mark Week</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/ywb-spotlight-generationon-make-your-mark-week/</link>
		<comments>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/ywb-spotlight-generationon-make-your-mark-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration's Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics, Policy, and Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I had not heard of GenerationOn, but when doing some casual internet surfing, I happened upon this cause which I thought was amazing, and one that is all about teaching the babies how to service! It&#8217;s called Make Your Mark Week, and it is all about inspiring young people to take time out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YWB Spotlight: Liz Niemiec &amp; Little Wish Foundation</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/ywb-spotlight-liz-niemiec-little-wish-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/ywb-spotlight-liz-niemiec-little-wish-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Young Writers&#8217; Block website, we want readers to think about the issues out there in the world, and then to discuss those that resonate most with their interests.  The most critical part though, which moves beyond the screen, is to engage. Enter 17-year-old Liz Niemiec.  She found a cause that touched her, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let History Pass You By &#8211; Awordorthree.com</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/dont-let-history-pass-you-by-awordorthree-com/</link>
		<comments>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/11/09/dont-let-history-pass-you-by-awordorthree-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sincere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 13, 1945, a cleaning woman and part-time janitor/barber welcomed a smiling brown boy with the odds already stacked against him to Memphis, Tennessee, a proud part of the Jim Crow South. His parents moved to Georgia and he grew up on a farm there where he lived a poor but happy life. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Stone of Hope&#8230;Memories of a Dream.</title>
		<link>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/10/16/a-stone-of-hope-memories-of-a-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://youngwritersblock.org/2011/10/16/a-stone-of-hope-memories-of-a-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpkTruth2Pwr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a month delayed, but the official recognition of the National Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial took place on 16 October in Washington, DC. With all that is going wrong today just in America &#8211; high unemployment, poverty, political stalemate, corporate domination of the country&#8217;s economic progress &#8211; this moment in history [...]]]></description>
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