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		<title>Why I Hate The Hook-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/12/03/why-i-hate-the-hook-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfred Edmond, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest drags on black economic empowerment is the "hook-up": black people expecting other black people to provide them with free goods and services just because they're black. We need to stop it. Today. NOW.]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, I Got It On Layway. What About It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfred Edmond, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buy-now, pay-later mentality of credit cards has been a major factor in reckless and irresponsible consumer behavior. Replacing layaway plans with easy access to high-interest credit has had devastating consequences for lower- and middle-income families, and black people in particular. The public embarrassment of buying goods on layaway (an admission that you were too poor to just buy what you wanted outright), has been replaced with the private shame of crushing credit card debt.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Rosa Parks. He&#8217;s Not Dr. King.</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/10/06/im-not-rosa-parks-hes-not-dr-king</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. King tells me that even though he and Rosa Parks and all the other heroes did so much, I don’t have the luxury of giving up, or giving in.   I no longer have the right to live the empty and easy life.  I cannot choose between Living his Dream and Fighting for his Dream anymore. ]]></description>
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		<title>My Powerful Life As Mrs. Buy-Black America</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/09/09/my-powerful-life-as-mrs-buy-black-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we created The Empowerment Experiment, we knew things would be different.  We knew we were going to miss certain businesses, services and products that we had grown so accustomed to using.  What we could not predict or begin to prepare myself for is how absolutely fulfilling the shopping and the small sacrifices would be.]]></description>
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		<title>Our Choice: To Empower</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/08/24/our-choice-to-empower</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family made a choice, publicly, to spend as much money as possible with Black business owners and professionals.  We made this decision and make this sacrifice because we believe Black people have too much talent and spend too much money for their community to look the way it does and for its families to suffer the way they do.   We urge our community to practice self-help economics. ]]></description>
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		<title>Empowerment Experiment Shines Light on Black Business Blight</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/03/20/empowerment-experiment-shines-light-on-black-business-blight</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Wade Talbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many other blacks in Illinois who live in areas where mainstream grocery stores are absent or distant, Maggie Anderson travels quite a distance to find a grocery store that sells fresh food. The difference is Anderson doesn’t live in a food desert. She travels 14 miles into Chicago’s inner city to Farmers Best Market because it is black-owned. ]]></description>
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