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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>
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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>I&#8217;m Not Rosa Parks. He&#8217;s Not Dr. King.</title>
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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>Establishing A Legacy of Wealth: Part 4</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/07/30/establishing-a-legacy-of-wealth-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, we have the ability to take control of our own destinies. Yes, there has been oppression, but we have the capability to do for ourselves and achieve success.]]></description>
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		<title>Establishing A Legacy of Wealth: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/07/29/establishing-a-legacy-of-wealth-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many African Americans are more concerned with what we are wearing, what we are driving and where we are eating, than what we are leaving behind for our children.  Why are some of us more concerned with material wealth than with establishing trust funds for our children? What inheritance is your child going to be left if you are forever increasing debt and spending money frivolously?]]></description>
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		<title>Establishing A Legacy of Wealth: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/07/28/establishing-a-legacy-of-wealth-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we have been oppressed, but we can do much more to help ourselves. Why is it that 93% of our income is spent outside the community? ]]></description>
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		<title>Establishing A Legacy of Wealth: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/07/27/establishing-a-legacy-of-wealth-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/blogs/2009/07/27/establishing-a-legacy-of-wealth-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, we haven’t had the best of times since arriving to this country.  It is also true that we continue to face many forms of degradation and discrimination.  However, even with the strife that we have endured, we are at a point where we need to take accountability for our own actions. ]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.blackenterprise.com/wealth-for-life/2009/03/20/empowerment-experiment-shines-light-on-black-business-blight/#comments</comments>
		<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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