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<title><![CDATA[Sit-In Breakfast Celebrates A&T Four, Struggle for Equality]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1113633!image/2928880221.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/2928880221.jpg><br /><br><p>Supporters fill ballroom to break bread with A and 'T Four, who shared words of thanks,  motivation and appreciation for non-violence at early morning breakfast. (Watch video by LeeSandre Alexandre.)...</p>]]>

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<title><![CDATA[ “Mississippi Mourning: The Emmett Till Story” Stirs Audience]]></title>
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<author> Jennifer Kouakeu </author>

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<![CDATA[<img src=><br /><span class="by">By: </span>Jennifer Kouakeu<br><p>Anxious whispers transformed into dead silence as the softly lit auditorium turned pitch black. A group of terrified boys ripped through the balcony  and - panting, stumbling, yelling at each other to keep moving. A snowstorm was brewing in Greensboro that ni...</p>]]>

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<title><![CDATA[Students Debate Obama's 1st Year, Haiti and Katrina]]></title>
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<author> Melissa Montgomery </author>

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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1108142!image/381078298.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/381078298.jpg><br /><br><p>Eight North Carolina A and 'T and Howard students analyzed leadership in African-American communities during a media roundtable on Friday afternoon. Topics ranged from the earthquake in Haiti to President Barack Obama's first year in office....</p>]]>

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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unsung Heroes Honored at Luncheon]]></title>
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<author> Nikole L. Pegues </author>

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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1093020!image/1412548658.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1412548658.jpg><br /><br><p>Three of the original 'A and 'T Four' returned to their alma mater Friday to be honored along with lesser-known pioneers at an 'Unsung Heroes' luncheon, one of many events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sit-ins in downtown Greensboro, N.C....</p>]]>

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<title><![CDATA[Panelists From Jesse Jackson to Stephen A. Smith Debate Activism]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1093005!image/268961758.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/268961758.jpg><br /><br><p>'Youth today don't appreciate how humiliating segregation was,' the Rev. Jesse Jackson said during a town hall on activism at North Carolina A and 'T State University, the first of a series of events for the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins....</p>]]>

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<media:description><![CDATA['Youth today don't appreciate how humiliating segregation was,' the Rev. Jesse Jackson said during a town hall on activism at North Carolina A&'T State University, the first of a series of events for the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins....]]></media:description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sit-In Survivor Challenges Others to Do More]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1091175!image/1032094663.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1032094663.jpg><br />Thousands Gather for 50th Anniversary March, Museum Opening<br><p>
	Franklin E. McCain, one of the North Carolina A and 'T freshmen who staged the F.W. Woolworth sit-in, says what he did in 1960 is not enough. McCain views the opening of the International Civil Rights Center  and ' Museum in Greensboro as a challenge to himsel...</p>]]>

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	Franklin E. McCain, one of the North Carolina A&'T freshmen who staged the F.W. Woolworth sit-in, says what he did in 1960 is not enough. McCain views the opening of the International Civil Rights Center &' Museum in Greensboro as a challenge to himsel...]]></media:description>
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<title><![CDATA[Taking a Stand by Sitting Down]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<img src=http://www.hunewsservice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1091042!image/2029595244.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/2029595244.jpg><br /><br><p>The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bennett College President Julianne Malveaux and activist Ben Chavis are among the speakers at a town hall launching the 50th anniversary commemoration of the sit-in movement launched in Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960. The five d...</p>]]>

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