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		<title>Journos Using Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Poynter Institute  will host a Webinar Thursday to help journalists effectively use Facebook to reach new audiences, enhance their storytelling and engage online readers.
The event, offered via Poynter&#8217;s NewsU, begins at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 12.
Ellyn Angelotti, interactivity editor of Poynter Online and adjunct faculty at Poynter, will demonstrate how news organizations are using Facebook. Participants will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jean9fhunter.wordpress.com&blog=5285334&post=8415&subd=jean9fhunter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Research Center May Close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Staffing and budget cuts may force the closure of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, which is housed in Founder&#8217;s Library at Howard University.
&#8220;The loss of 60 percent of its resources and the abolishment of some critical positions due to the Voluntary Separation Incentive Retirement Program (VSIRP) resulted in many problems,” interim director Thomas C. Battle told the daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jean9fhunter.wordpress.com&blog=5285334&post=8368&subd=jean9fhunter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jean9fhunter.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/black-research-center-may-close/</link>
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		<title>Historic Election Recalled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t born yet when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, but I do remember where I was when the Challenger space shuttle exploded or when planes slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001 or when then-Sen. Barack Obama was officially elected the 44th president of the United States [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jean9fhunter.wordpress.com&blog=5285334&post=8421&subd=jean9fhunter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jean9fhunter.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/historic-election-recalled/</link>
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		<title>Senate Confirms Xavier, Morehouse School of Medicine Graduate as Surgeon General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Dr. Regina Benjamin as the nation&#8217;s newest top doctor.
In July, President Barack Obama announced her as his Surgeon General nominee because &#8220;health care reform is about every family’s health and the health of our economy.  And if there’s anyone who understands the urgency of meeting this challenge in a personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jean9fhunter.wordpress.com&blog=5285334&post=8352&subd=jean9fhunter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jean9fhunter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/senate-confirms-xavier-morehouse-school-of-medicine-graduate-as-surgeon-general/</link>
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