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					 <title>Today in Black America - June 17</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/7382/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The top stories in the nation's press for June 17, 2025.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2025-06-17 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Today in Black America - May 19</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6983/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The top stories in the nation's press for May 19, 2023.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2023-05-19 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Embarrassment of Herschel Walker</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6863/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Former football star is a white supremacist’s wet dream]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-11-28 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Not Above the Law</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6793/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[There is no law in America if Donald Trump is not charged.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-09-08 21:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Now is not the time</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6771/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Now is not the time for fear or fatigue]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-08-20 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Liar, Liar. GOP’s House on Fire</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6761/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Republicans have succumbed to the toxic behavior of Donald Trump]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-08-13 13:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The People v. Donald Trump</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6744/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Former President threatens the modicum of democracy that exists in the US]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-07-25 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Trump Must be Indicted</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6729/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[January 6th Committee hearings reveals a dangerous and delusional despot]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-07-14 16:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America doesn't care about Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6682/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Every day the United States proves that children don’t matter]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-05-25 20:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Congress must examine White Hate Crimes</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5591/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Recent attack in New York City demands a congressional inquiry.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-05-18 20:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When all you have is Hate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6666/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The myth of America is at the root of the killings in Buffalo]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-05-16 12:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Triumvirate of Stupidity</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6630/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Governors Greg Abbott, Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis are the Pied Pipers of Hate]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6630/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2022-04-15 05:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Campaign to Destroy Public Schools</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6612/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The right launches stealth attacks targeting Black and brown children]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-03-30 13:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Blacks, the original defenders of democracy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6601/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[America, applaud Ukrainians but understand the root of their anger]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-03-22 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What January 6th really represents.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6543/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The attack on the Capital was the warning shot of the coming war.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2022-01-17 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What to Our Black Children is the Fourth of July?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5695/</link>
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					 <pubDate>2021-07-04 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Don’t Let Schools Lie to our Children.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6372/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We must fight the campaign to deceive our children.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-06-18 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Joe Manchin: The New Dixiecrat</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6359/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Manchin embraces the worldview of a 1960s Dixiecrat.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-06-07 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Let the Public Vote on Police Contracts</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6345/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The public deserves the right to determine how it wants to be policed.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-05-27 12:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Does anyone care about Black Children?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6340/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Who will protect our children?]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-05-24 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The GOP, the new White Citizens Council</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6326/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Disguised as lawmakers, the party has now fully embraced White supremacy]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-05-13 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Tim Scott, the Ghost of Plantations Past</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6310/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[All that was missing was a handkerchief on his head.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-04-30 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Miss Me with That</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6247/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Republican lies can no longer be tolerated.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-02-26 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Let the Trial Begin</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6210/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Senate needs to hold Donald Trump accountable for his treasonous actions against the United States.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-01-25 19:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Why Trump must be Prosecuted</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6193/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[45’s recklessness threatens the very existence of the United States.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2021-01-04 13:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Have We Learned our Lesson?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6187/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[4 years of Donald Trump should have opened our eyes]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-12-03 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>It’s Time to Burst the Poverty Bubble</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6180/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A coordinated strategy is needed to conquer poverty in America]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-10-27 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Clear and Present Danger</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6179/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is a direct threat to Black and brown Americans.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6179/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-10-13 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Menace to Society</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6176/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is not just unfit for office, he is a menace to society]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-10-06 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What Now?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6175/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The injustice of Breonna Taylor’s murder must be avenged – but how?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6175/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-09-24 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Blasphemer-in-Chief</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6173/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump worships at the altar of Whiteness]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-09-21 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Can We Keep It Real?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6172/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Some Black folks are playing with fire this election and are about to burn all of us.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6172/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-09-16 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Lying Truth</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6167/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When Donald Trump lies we need to realize he is not capable of more]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6167/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-09-10 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>About that Crime Bill…</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6154/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The context of the ’94 crime bill has been lost in a sea of rhetoric]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6154/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-08-20 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Black Families &amp; COVID-19</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6138/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black parents need to question back-to-school plans.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6138/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-07-20 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Defund the Police</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6132/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Language should not matter in the cause for Black justice]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6132/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-06-14 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Loneliness of the Front Pew</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6131/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Floyd family’s public grief hides the private pain]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-06-10 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Calling on Momma</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6126/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[George Floyd sought the only help many Black men have ever known]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6126/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-05-30 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Choice in November is Clear</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6125/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Distractions will cause our deaths]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6125/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-05-28 16:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Presidential Lies Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6092/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is a liar extraordinaire with no equal in presidential history]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2020-03-19 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Early one Sunday morning…</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6084/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The untimely sunset of a legend.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6084/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2020-01-27 21:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Too Far Left is the Only Path to Justice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6077/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The very creation of ‘America’ is an idea some considered ‘too far left’]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2019-11-18 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A National Crisis</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6072/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It's time to prepare Generation Z for battle.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6072/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2019-08-05 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Cavalry Ain’t Coming</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6067/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black and brown people need to prepare for the long haul.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6067/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2019-07-27 16:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Institutions can Rebut Racism</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6034/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We can’t become consumed with circus-like atmosphere in the nation’s capital]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6034/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-06-20 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A God Unfamiliar to Me</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6000/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[There is no witness for the evil now committed in the name of the Almighty.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/6000/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-05-15 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mourn…but only for a minute</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5966/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[To truly honor Dr. King, we must return to the battlefield of justice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5966/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-04-04 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Too Many Preventable Deaths</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5912/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Lung cancer hits home as the disease devastates the Black community.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5912/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-02-01 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Shithole of a Man</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5890/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In Trump, it’s the ignorance of the man that is offensive.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5890/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-01-13 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Oprah, Take a Pass, Please</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5884/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[There are other ways to serve the nation than running for president.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5884/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-01-10 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Welcome to 1968</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5878/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Current times reflect the nation’s unfinished business of 50 years ago.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5878/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2018-01-06 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Is Recollection Justice Permissible for Racism?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5850/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Will racist behavior face the same scrutiny as sexual harassment?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5850/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-12-09 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A President by Title Only</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5793/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When a person shows their true loathsome self, stop expecting better.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5793/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-09-25 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The End of Black Patience</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5782/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We are entering a season of resistance like none other.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5782/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-09-18 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Time to Work</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5770/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Freedom can’t be won by a tweet, Facebook post or via Instagram.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5770/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-09-11 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Dream Bandits</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5765/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A White House intent on whitening America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5765/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-09-06 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Responsibility</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5754/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[As ancestors of enslaved Africans, we are obligated to fight racism.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5754/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-08-26 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Cancer within the Family</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5750/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trump’s Black enablers have shackled our dignity.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5750/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-08-18 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America’s Skeletons in Full View</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5745/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In Charlottesville and North Korea, our past is present.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5745/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-08-13 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Don’t let the green grass fool you</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5741/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Blacks in suburban communities are catching hell too.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5741/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-08-11 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our National Wretchedness</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5726/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We are a nation of hypocrites and liars posing as leaders.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5726/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-07-29 14:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The NRA is the Enemy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5708/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Gun lobby is the ultimate threat to Black survival in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5708/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-07-14 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Fallen Sisters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5703/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Two lives, two deaths symbolize the dangers facing Black women.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5703/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-07-07 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America's Leadership Crisis</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5679/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A President's deception should alarm the nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5679/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-06-09 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Black Children’s Bill of Rights</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5671/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It’s time we affirmed the human rights of Black children in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5671/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-06-01 14:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Trumpload of Lies</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5648/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We are witnessing the height of lies and corruption in the Trump White House.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5648/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-05-12 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Abuse of Black Bodies</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5626/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Henrietta Lacks story is about corporate abuse, not family dysfunction.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5626/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-04-23 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Killing of Robert Godwin, Sr.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5619/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Beyond cowardly, the killer of Robert Godwin deserves street justice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5619/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-04-18 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Trump &amp; Company’s White Lies</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5605/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Team Trump has raised lying to an art form.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5605/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-04-06 05:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Constitution Bites Back</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5577/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Founders’ reach from the grave frustrates the anti-history President.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5577/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-03-20 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Man with the Toxic Touch</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5571/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President Trump manages to poison all that he touches.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5571/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-03-16 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Attack on Liberty</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5560/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trump employs ignorance as a strategy to undermine our democracy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5560/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-03-10 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5542/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Immigration agenda seems intent on preserving whiteness in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5542/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-03-01 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Seek not Right, Left, but True Change</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5522/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Hyper-partisanship has left us morally bankrupt and spiritually depleted.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5522/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-02-16 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Is there a Terrorist in the White House?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5517/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The president is exhibiting behavior we associate with terrorists.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5517/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-02-11 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Other Side of Midnight</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5511/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trump is a symptom of a disease. Our youth represent the cure.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5511/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-02-08 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Hater-in-Chief</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5501/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The 45th President takes a fast-track to the gutter.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5501/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-01-30 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>16 Minutes of Huh?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5495/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[An inaugural address worthy of ridicule and rejection.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5495/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-01-22 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Rising higher than the Hate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5487/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Yes, Blacks must be exceptional again to show America the better.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5487/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2017-01-13 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Revolution…in progress</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5456/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The nation is still in formation and the revolution continues.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5456/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-12-13 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Giving Thanks in the Storm</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5430/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When we are at our lowest giving thanks elevates our spirit]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5430/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-23 22:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. President, Protect the Water Protectors</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5425/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5425/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-22 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What will You Do?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5417/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[At some point, you have to decide what’s worth fighting for]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5417/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-16 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Work in the Age of Trump</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5406/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[For Black Americans, a different approach is required]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5406/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-10 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Why King’s Voice Still Matters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5402/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In a volatile election year, MLK spoke truth to power.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5402/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-06 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Don't lose your moral compass</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5395/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We can’t sacrifice principles for the sake of political expediency.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5395/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-11-03 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Rigged Elections, an American Tradition</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5382/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Stop pretending that elections have been fair in America]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5382/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-10-24 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>About Last Night</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5378/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Watching the presidential debates was a form of political torture.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5378/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-10-20 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Is it Over Yet?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5371/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[2016 presidential election farce distracts from serious crises in America]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5371/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-10-17 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America’s Family Feud</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5361/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[An election that exposes the dark underbelly of a Democracy that never was.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5361/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-10-09 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Decoding the Presidential Debate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5351/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Candidates’ responses are best understood between the lines]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5351/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-27 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Must Blacks bear the Cross Alone?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5348/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Will white Christians share this load?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5348/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-24 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Crying time is over</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5345/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It’s time we took strategic action to end police brutality.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5345/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-22 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>CBC Silent on Israel Aid</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5340/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[CBC members mute on unprecedented foreign aid package to Israel]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5340/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-16 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Seattle’s Missed Extra-Point</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5335/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Display of patriotism belies the cold hard facts of racism in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5335/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-12 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Ambiguously Black</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5330/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[For Rodney Harrison, acceptance may have trumped race.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5330/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-09-07 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Kaepernick's Patriotism</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5321/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Colin Kaepernick answered the question – O say can you see?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5321/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-08-29 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Rescind the Baltimore Police Contract</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5310/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Justice Department report justifies voiding collective bargaining agreement]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5310/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-08-18 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>It’s the damn Police</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5305/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[DOJ report shows much of Black despair is at the hands of law enforcement]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5305/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-08-12 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Gabby’s Liberty</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5301/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Meaningless symbolism is an example of the weakness of the American Republic]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5301/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-08-10 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Legacy Lost</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5291/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[To embrace the civil rights legacy,  accept the equivalent responsibility]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5291/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-31 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Hold Them Accountable</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5286/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Don't get swept away by the fantasy of power, it’s time to exercise power.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5286/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-29 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beyond Trivial Pursuits</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5270/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Plagiarism is shameful but we have bigger challenges than a jacked speech.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5270/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-21 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Dear Brother Micah</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5256/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Your life had greater meaning than its tragic ending.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5256/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-10 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Crying for Alton is Not Enough</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5253/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our tears are an insufficient response to this nation’s disregard for our humanity]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5253/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-07 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Clinton's Self-Serving Public Service</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5232/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The recklessness of the former president reeks of self-serving politics]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5232/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-03 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Trump is America</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5230/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is everything that America is but claims it’s not]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5230/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-07-01 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>For Democrats, a Sure Thing is Elusive</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5195/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Party’s history of choosing safe, establishment types is checkered]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5195/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-05-18 12:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>It’s not about Trump, it’s about US</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5182/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We can deny the truth about our broken country at our own peril.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5182/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-05-06 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>I Will Vote My Conscience</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5161/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A choice between fear-mongering and tokenism is no choice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5161/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-21 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>I Have a Hope</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5157/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Why talk about “The Dream” if you can’t even hope for a better America?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5157/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-17 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Power of Kobe Bryant</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5153/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Future Hall of Famer controlled his destiny from start to finish.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5153/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-14 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Familiarity killed the Movement</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5147/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our coziness with partisanship killed the movement for liberation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5147/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-11 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bill Clinton’s Black Magic</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5145/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[He is always the blackest, smartest and most patronizing white guy in the room]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5145/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-08 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Countdown to 250</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5133/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[As America celebrates in 2026, will Blacks have reason to?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5133/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-04-04 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>We need a Justice Resurrection</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5118/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our biased justice system is on full display as inconsistencies mount]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5118/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-03-27 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Betrayal of Progress</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5107/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Rep. Donna Edwards learns to keep her friends close and enemies closer.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5107/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-03-21 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Racism transcends Party</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5099/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[What we see in Trump is the mirror image of America]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5099/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-03-13 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>I’ve Actually Seen Scarier</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5093/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trump scary? Reagan-Bush was a real moment to be fearful]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5093/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-03-07 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Great White Dope</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5087/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trump’s rise is a cautionary tale of the dumbing down of America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5087/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-03-01 12:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>No Time for Fear</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5079/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We betray our ancestors when we cower before cowards.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5079/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-02-25 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Playing the Civil Rights Card</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5066/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our struggle is not a tactic for political advantage.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5066/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-02-15 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bernie as the new Barry</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5065/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Sander’s candidacy is a ‘moment’ similar to Barry Goldwater’s campaign in 1964.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5065/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-02-12 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bernie’s Fairness Factor</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5055/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Young voters take to Sanders' attack on fundamental unfairness of capitalism.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5055/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-02-08 05:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>#AmericaSoWhite</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5044/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Business Hollywood simply reflects the reality of our nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5044/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-01-28 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Justice Lifestyle</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5039/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[You have to honestly assess your commitment to building a just society.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5039/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2016-01-20 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Minstrel Politics</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5007/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Justice Scalia's racist rhetoric supports America's minstrel politics.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/5007/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-12-10 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When the Pimps get Pimped</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4996/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Some Black clergy prove pimpin' is easy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4996/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-12-01 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>9/15 came before 9/11</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4937/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[White terrorism against Blacks is conveniently forgotten.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4937/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-09-15 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Lead, Follow or Step Aside</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4928/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We are in a moment requiring courage. Inaction is unacceptable.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4928/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-09-04 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What’s in your child’s backpack?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4922/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black parents need to pack something ‘extra’ for their child to carry]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4922/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-08-31 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our White Liberal Conundrum</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4913/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[White empathy has its limits when our struggle is for sheer survival.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4913/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-08-24 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Leader Speaks</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4852/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President Obama finds his ‘voice’ in a moment of tragedy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4852/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-06-27 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Why the Confederate flag must go</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4846/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Symbols used to buttress white supremacy have no place in our nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4846/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-06-25 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Stop Fu*kin’ with Black Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4831/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Texas cop should be fired, stripped of his pension, and jailed]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4831/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-06-08 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Crisis in Christianity?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4802/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[New survey reveals sharp drop among those who identify with the faith.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4802/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-05-13 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Reagan’s Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4789/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Baltimore reflects the outcome of Ronald Reagan’s disastrous policies.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4789/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-05-03 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beating down Black youth</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4782/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Praise for Black mom who whips child but question the rage of Black youth.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4782/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-30 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Thug is in the eye of the beholder</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4779/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[What is more thuggish than systemically destroying a people?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4779/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-28 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beware of Outside Apologists</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4776/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Violent protest is the repressed anger of the oppressed]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4776/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-27 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>American Thugocracy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4771/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our nation’s democratic experiment has morphed into a full-fledged Thugocracy]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4771/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-22 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Arrogance of White Justice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4764/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Atlanta teachers’ sentences reflect “because I can” arrogance of judges]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4764/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-17 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>We Must Decide We Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4761/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Black identity and experience in America must be self-determined.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4761/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-14 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Phillip Pannell was gunned down too</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4754/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Teaneck NJ youth was shot in the back like Walter Scott]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4754/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-04-10 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Young, Gifted, Black &amp; Abused</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4734/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Youthful Black success is now an offense against society]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4734/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-03-26 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Making Black Girls Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4725/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We can't uplift Black boys and leave Black girls as an afterthought.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4725/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-03-18 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bloody Sunday 50 Years Later</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4713/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The lesson from Selma is that freedom is not conditional.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4713/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-03-09 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Guilty by Association</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4707/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Why do we not consider bad police officers a product of their environment?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4707/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-03-05 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Parallel parked at injustice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4685/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[America refuses to honestly look in its rear view mirror.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4685/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-02-16 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When a Song Matters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4678/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[‘Precious Lord’ cannot be ‘performed.’ It is more than a song.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4678/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-02-11 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Evasive Truth in Reporting</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4673/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The ‘Fourth Estate” has become both a casualty and a liability to our democracy]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4673/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-02-08 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>SELMA: White Savior Not Required</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4655/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Leadership of Blacks is always diminished to elevate whites’ status]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4655/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-01-23 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Angry Blue Men</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4630/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The anger and resentment of NYPD when they are held accountable]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4630/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2015-01-05 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Calling All Sorors!</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4615/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black Greek letter organizations must not sacrifice their history]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4615/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-16 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A U.S. Terrorist Recruitment Kit</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4607/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[U.S. is breeding domestic upheaval with its failure to confront racism]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4607/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-10 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our DC March Madness</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4604/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Let’s keep it local, grassroots and strategic. Change is locally driven.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4604/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-08 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America’s Chokehold</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4596/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Justice for Black people is being strangled in all facets of the American experience]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4596/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-04 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Barkley’s Woeful Ignorance</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4595/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Ex-NBA star plays the clown in the circus-like environment of injustice]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4595/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-03 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Be Mad, Get Organized</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4592/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Anger is a legitimate reaction to the injustices of racial discrimination and oppression.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4592/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-12-01 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Justified Rage</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4588/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[I choose to be angry about the dehumanization of Black people in America]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4588/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-11-25 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Permanent Polarization</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4565/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Midterm elections confirm the politics of marginalization defies good governance]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4565/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-11-05 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Ferguson Fix</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4553/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Injustice unfolding in Ferguson confirms Blacks’ suspicions about judicial system]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4553/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-10-24 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Voting Democrat is not Enough</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4552/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Mid-terms signal beginning of the end of Obama era and need for a new agenda]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2014-10-22 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Not so Secret Failure</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4527/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Oops is not an acceptable excuse for Secret Service security lapses]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4527/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-10-02 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Boobs on Fox News Channel</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4517/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It’s time to simply ignore the idiot parade that poses as a news channel.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4517/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-09-29 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America’s Resentment Crisis</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4510/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Lies have culminated in racial paranoia that threatens the democracy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4510/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-09-25 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>We can be Normal Too</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4507/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Depicting Blacks as hostile or docile further empowers stereotypes and racism.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4507/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-09-23 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Loss like No Other</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4495/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Finding joy in the heartbreak of my mother’s passing.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4495/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-09-14 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>No Defending Rice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4491/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black men can’t allow Black women and white feminists to be alone in outrage.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4491/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-09-12 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>We are not the Enemy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4473/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In death of Michael Brown, effort to distract from issue of police violence.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4473/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-08-27 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Time for Action</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4464/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In our sorrow and anger over police killings of Black men, we must force change.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4464/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-08-21 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Police Brutality: A Moving Target</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4458/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A multi-level approach is necessary to stem police brutality.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4458/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-08-19 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Imaginary Brutality</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4439/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[NYC Police union chief reveals deep seated ignorance in denying the obvious.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4439/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-08-07 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Lynching of Eric Garner</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4424/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[NYC man’s death fits pattern of police brutality against Black males.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4424/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-07-23 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Saving Our Youth</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4409/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Talking to our youth is the first step to curtailing youth violence.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4409/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-07-11 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Blood Stained Nation</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4405/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It’s time to call out those who peddle in the death trade.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4405/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-07-08 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Too many Free Riders</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4402/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[50 years after Freedom Rides, too many Blacks are just free riders.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4402/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-07-04 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What Have I to Give?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4385/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Freedom Summer reminds us of the capacity to lead committed lives.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4385/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-06-25 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>My Sisters' Keeper Too</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4383/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Policy solutions for Black youth must be cross-gender to affect positive change.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4383/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-06-23 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Searching for John Brown</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4349/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We could use a few more white people denouncing their entitlement.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4349/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-05-28 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Sterling Effect</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4303/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[NBA team owner represents a worldview and not the sickness of an individual.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4303/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-04-29 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When all was not Fair</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4292/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[50 years ago today the NY World's Fair opened in an era of inequality.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4292/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-04-22 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When the Ivy is not Enough</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4285/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Obsession with Ivy League schools misses larger history and social context.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4285/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-04-16 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Word from our Sponsor</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4265/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Supreme Court ruling moves democracy a step closer to a spectator sport]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4265/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-04-03 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Chris Christie’s She-Devil</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4257/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Christie resorts to gender stereotypes to cover his generous backside.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4257/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-03-29 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When the Addicted are White</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4244/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Reaction to heroin surge is in contrast to response to crack epidemic.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4244/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-03-24 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Ben Carson’s Malpractice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4233/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Physician confuses fame with lack of competency outside his profession.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4233/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-03-13 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Childhood Interrupted</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4229/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When Black children encounter the ugliness of social dysfunction and malice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4229/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-03-11 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>We Must Fight On</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4218/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Surrender is not an option; should not be a consideration, not for a moment.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4218/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-03-03 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Personal Responsibility President</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4212/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We need effective policy not rhetorical distractions from the President.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4212/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-02-28 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Self Determined Future</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4208/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The 21st Century is the pivotal period for Blacks in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4208/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-02-25 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Animal House Meets the State House</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4188/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Christie’s frat needs double secret probation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4188/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-02-11 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Miracle of Old Black Men</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4175/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If Black men don’t survive, we will truly be history.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4175/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-02-02 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>All Deaths are Not Equal</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4166/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When Black people die, they are simply statistics devoid of a life story.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4166/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-01-27 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When Black Men Flex</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4160/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Society prefers its Black men to be docile and intimidated.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4160/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-01-22 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Killing and Dying for Respect</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4136/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We need to take serious the sense of worthlessness among youth.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4136/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2014-01-02 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Affluenza, White Santa and Blonde Jesus</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4122/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Symbols have a way of driving and sustaining inequities.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4122/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-12-19 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When our Heroes Die</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4117/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Mandela’s death should make us examine our commitment to freedom.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4117/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-12-17 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bottom of the 9th on Poverty</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4099/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President’s focus comes late in the game and may be too late to matter.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4099/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-12-05 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Names Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4072/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The absurdity of defending the Washington NFL franchise name.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4072/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-11-14 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Incognito Racism</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4063/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The evil lurking inside an NFL locker room is exposed.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4063/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-11-12 06:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Tale of Two Women</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4054/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Buono, Clinton two examples of strange twists of gender &amp; partisan politics.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4054/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-11-05 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America in Blackface</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4047/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The trick has been on African-Americans for some time; we mustn’t be spooked.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4047/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-31 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Shaqueled in New Jersey</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4043/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Former NBA star’s embrace of governor is Pyrrhic victory.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4043/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-29 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Stay Classy New Jersey!</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4035/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[State again treats its politics like a three-ring circus.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4035/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-24 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bring back Blackness</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4019/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A fearful white minority is attempting to create a permanent ruling class.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4019/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-16 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Suburban Weeds</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4012/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[My daughter has been exposed to the stealth-like racism of suburbia.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4012/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-14 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Contagious Stupidity</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4006/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[House Republicans show voters why real change is needed in 2014.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/4006/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-10-10 06:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>GOP Exposed with Shutdown</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3992/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Republicans play politics to the peril of the nation’s recovery.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3992/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-09-30 23:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>It's not Good News</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3975/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Comments reflect the abandonment of New York City's poor.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3975/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-09-19 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Suspicious Suspicion</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3968/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Charlotte police gun down Black male who was seeking assistance.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3968/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-09-16 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Road to Damascus</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3951/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Is there an Ananias in Congress who can restore the President’s sight?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3951/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-09-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Killing of Newark</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3949/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[My state’s largest city is being murdered before our eyes.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3949/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-09-02 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Time for Leadership</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3941/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The moment begs for courageous and committed leaders of yesteryear.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3941/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-29 06:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Channel MLK but be Presidential</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3932/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President must use anniversary to speak clearly on racial justice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3932/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-27 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Advocacy like Beatlemania</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3924/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[No time for history at event marking historic event.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3924/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-25 12:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Make Change Personal</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3916/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Determine what you can do to change conditions in your community.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2013-08-23 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Institutions Can Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3914/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The real lesson of '63 March is that strong institutions matter.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3914/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-20 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Russell Simmons’ Triflin’ Ways</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3909/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Hip-hop entrepreneur shamefully and knowingly distorts Black history.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3909/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-16 13:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. Booker's Magic Act</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3896/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[My vote must reflect my conscience and not popular sentiment.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3896/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-11 15:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Dreaming is Insufficient</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3884/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[50th anniversary of the Great March must address King's challenge]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3884/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-08-01 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Black Boys are Talking</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3880/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If we truly want to save Black boys we need to first hear them.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3880/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-30 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Jesus Weeps for New Jersey</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3863/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Endorsement of Governor by some Black clergy fails accountability test.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3863/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-19 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Exhausted by Racism</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3858/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Living life as a Black man in America will leave you permanently exhausted.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3858/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-17 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America is Guilty</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3849/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Zimmerman verdict is in and America is guilty.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3849/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-13 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>3/5ths Justice, 100% Pain</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3845/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[African-Americans are again being shown the discounted value of Black life.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3845/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-11 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>America’s Suspect Class</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3839/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Zimmerman trial shows Black males are the nation’s permanent suspects.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3839/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-08 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Unfinished Business</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3834/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Today, we must acknowledge the contradiction we call America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3834/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-07-04 07:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Dead Man Laughing</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3815/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A dead Chief Justice’s hands has ripped away Blacks’ voting rights.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3815/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-06-25 14:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Racial Tongues</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3812/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our wicked past is verbalized in ways beyond the ‘N’ word.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3812/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-06-22 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Saving Black Boys Redux</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3807/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Saving Black boys is a cultural imperative for the Black community.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3807/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-06-20 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3665/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A wary look at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp’s venture into public education.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3665/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-03-12 12:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Lil’ Wayne, Little Boy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3639/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Disrespect in an age when ignorance is profitably bliss.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3639/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-02-20 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Save the Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3623/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We ignore our moral compass when we allow children to be slaughtered.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3623/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-02-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our History’s Complicated Past</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3609/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our story is undeniably linked to the complexities of white America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3609/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-02-01 10:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Slaughter of City Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3607/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President Obama must use his standing to speak on urban violence]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3607/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-01-31 08:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Meaningful Lives</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3602/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Two Baltimore icons leave behind a legacy of service and leadership]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3602/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-01-29 09:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Media Stereotyping</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3577/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Mob boss, angry Black man, thug are a few of the worse stereotypes of media.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3577/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2013-01-14 10:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Going Home for Christmas</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3550/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Families in Newtown must lean on faith as holiday approaches.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3550/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-12-20 11:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Sick Nation</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3542/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Healing will only take place when we acknowledge our sickness.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3542/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-12-17 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Clinton Kick to the Curb</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3524/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We have seen this act before, but the name was Guinier and not Rice.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3524/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-12-05 00:11:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Pushing White Minority Rule</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3495/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Congress is shaping up to be a collection of white homelands]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3495/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-11-15 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>They Voted for the White Guy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3482/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Romney’s candidacy was buttressed by white male desperation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3482/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-11-09 11:30:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Declining Significance of Whiteness</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3474/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Election points to a new nation shaped by America’s racial future.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3474/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-11-08 06:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Little Suffering Goes a Long Way</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3472/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Sandy reminds us that convenience is a blessing.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3472/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-11-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Tale of Two Storms</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3468/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President’s strong response to Sandy is heads above the Katrina experience.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3468/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-11-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Chased by Race</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3462/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A President who tried to avoid the “R” word, is chased by racism]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3462/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-10-26 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Looking Presidential</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3459/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The GOP lowers expectations for the presidency and plays voters for fools]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3459/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-10-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Walking, Talking Cowards</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3450/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Romneys are privileged, self-serving false-patriots.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3450/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-10-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>One ‘N-Word’ Away</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3432/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In some quarters of white America, Barack Obama will never be accepted.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3432/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-10-11 08:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mitt Inc.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3420/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The walking, talking corporate candidate is a bad investment for America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3420/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-10-04 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Book of Deceit</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3405/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Some Black clergy are preaching the Gospel of Confusion]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3405/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-09-27 09:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What would Jesus Say?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3380/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Romney tramples his own professed faith by abandoning the “least of these”]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3380/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-09-19 07:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>FAMU’s Failure</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3365/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Blaming hazing victim, band drum major Robert Chapman for his death is a new low.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3365/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-09-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Defining Who We Are</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3345/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Last night President Obama reclaimed ownership of "American"]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3345/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-09-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mitt's Lying Game</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3304/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The GOP nominee has raised lying and deception to a new level in politics.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3304/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-08-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Victims of their Destiny?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3301/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Governor Christie's keynote speech in Tampa was out of tune.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3301/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-08-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Gun Killed Glenn</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3278/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Thirty-two years later and a friend’s death by gun violence still hurts.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3278/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-08-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bring back the Beautiful</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3268/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The focus on Gabby Douglas' hair shows our misplaced priorities.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3268/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-08-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Guarding Mental Health</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3192/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Campuses must react when warning signs appear of possible mental health issues.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3192/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-06-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>He did the Right Thing</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3159/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President Obama shows moral leadership in supporting gay marriage despite risk.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3159/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-05-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Final KISS Farewell</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3141/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[New York City’s KISS-FM to leave airwaves Sunday night and merge with longtime rival.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3141/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-04-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Justice for Malik Williams</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3119/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[His story deserves as much attention as the Trayvon Martin tragedy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3119/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-04-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Conviction is Justice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3116/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[True justice will be the conviction of Trayvon Martin's killer.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3116/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-04-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Remembering Gil Noble</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3105/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Legendary Black Journalist took us to school every Sunday afternoon.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3105/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-04-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>If you have to shoot me</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3083/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If the day comes that I am felled, just know that I died Black and proud.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3083/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-03-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Is there any Love for Black Boys?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3079/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The killing of Trayvon Martin points to our treatment of young Black men.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3079/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-03-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Begging for their Lives</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3074/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin is the latest young Black man left begging for his life.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3074/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-03-20 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Quiet Voice Stilled</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3052/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[New Jersey’s first Black member of Congress loses battle with cancer]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3052/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-03-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>False Prophets</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3031/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Franklin Graham and the hate behind the southern evangelical Christian brand.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3031/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-02-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Slavery by Another Name</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3017/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[PBS documentary presents another missing link in the history of our nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3017/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-02-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Whitney Houston</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3013/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Another name is added to the roll of artists who left us early.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3013/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-02-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Roland, Words Matter</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3005/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[CNN’s Roland Martin is suspended for anti-gay Tweets during Super Bowl.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/3005/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-02-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Don Cornelius, 1936-2012</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2989/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Don Cornelius will be remembered as a visionary and cultural icon.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2989/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-02-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beyond an Opponent</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2976/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It is what he stands for that will define Obama in the 2012 election.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2976/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-01-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Good 'Ole Boys</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2956/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It was a good old fashioned, racist hatefest on Monday at the GOP debate.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2956/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-01-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Real MLK Legacy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2945/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It is time to move beyond the "Dream" speech and embrace King's legacy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2945/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-01-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Season of Hate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2937/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Republicans have adopted hate as a potent and politically divisive tactic.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2937/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2012-01-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Protecting our Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2897/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our rhetoric does not match the reality of our children in harm’s way]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2897/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-12-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Soldiering On</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2864/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street confronting the need to fine-tune its efforts.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2864/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-11-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When Legends Fall</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2847/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The scandal at Penn State speaks volumes to all that’s wrong in college sports.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2847/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-11-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Herman Cain’s Indefensible Defense</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2842/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Cain's accusers are racking up like 99 bottles of beer on the wall]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2842/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-11-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>That Strong Black Conservative Man</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2828/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Miss Ann (Coulter)seems to be caught up in her own dark fantasy.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2828/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-11-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Capitol Hill is a Crime Scene</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2822/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Yellow police crime scene tape should wrap around Capitol dome.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2822/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-11-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Real Anger at Congress, Not President</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2809/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[New poll shows Americans utter disgust with Capitol Hill]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2809/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-10-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Republicans’ Jungle Fever</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2795/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[GOP enjoying their own post-racial fantasy in Herman Cain.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2795/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-10-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Good Guy</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2782/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Like the new boyfriend, Obama pays for the behavior of past acquaintances]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2782/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-10-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Oversized Ambition</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2767/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Ego, not purpose, is driving White House consideration by Chris Christie.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2767/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-10-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>2012 Calls for Common Sense</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2759/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Doomsday scenario can be avoided by voters using common sense.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2759/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-09-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Georgia...Damn!</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2749/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The state of Georgia must become off-limits after the execution of Troy Davis.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2749/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-09-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Executing the Truth</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2746/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Vengeance, not justice is at play in rejection of Troy Davis clemency appeal.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2746/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-09-20 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Not Earthly Bound</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2722/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The faith that victims of 9/11 are at peace.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2722/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-09-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>There is no Rising Tide</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2713/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[August jobs report reflects grim prospects for Black America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2713/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-09-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Poverty Tour as Sideshow</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2673/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[No matter the intent, West-Smiley tour borders on minstrel politics.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2673/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-08-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Bloomberg Steps Up</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2661/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Mayor to shell out $30M to help young Black men in New York City.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2661/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-08-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Blowing Smoke</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2626/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black leadership needs to find correct vehicle to debate differences.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2626/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-07-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Cowards on the Hill</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2608/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It's clear that Republicans on the Hill see us as disposable.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2608/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-07-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Friendships Never Die</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2541/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Celebrating a life and a friendship for the ages.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2541/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-06-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Acknowledging the Obvious</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2538/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President’s team states what Blacks have known for some time.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2538/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-06-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Leave His Sorry *SS</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2505/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In too many child abuse cases, women are beholden to pitiful men.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2505/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-05-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Oklahoma's Lazy Racist</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2494/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Racists trade on tired stereotypes to mask their hatred of Blacks.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2494/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-05-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>GOP Off and Running</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2484/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Crowded Republican field sets sights on the White House in 2012.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2484/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-05-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Black Family Portrait</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2475/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Can we bring back a Cosby like show that celebrates Black life?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2475/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>THE Moment</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2463/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The killing of Osama bin Laden will prove to define the Obama presidency.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2463/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-05-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Did Trump Commit a Hate Crime?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2452/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has crossed “free speech” line in pushing birther lie.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2452/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-04-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Embracing Hate</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2443/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Given history, Blacks must be persistent voice against violence.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2443/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-04-25 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Time to get Real</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2426/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Time to end the budget lies and deal from the deck of truth.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2426/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-04-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Slick as a Fox</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2414/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck is not going away; just taking his insanity to a new platform.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2414/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-04-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What Would Martin Do?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2403/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Rather than just evoke King’s words, President should follow his path.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2403/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Final Instructions on Life</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2401/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[My father’s final instructions sustain me as I celebrate his birthday]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2401/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-30 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>In Whose Interest?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2380/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The time to speak out against U.S. involvement in Libya is now.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2380/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Democrats White Flight</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2375/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Democrats must confront their racial inertia to truly change the nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2375/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Real Terrorism</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2363/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We need hearings on right-wing militias, guns and gangs.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2363/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mission Accomplished</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2356/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If his intent was to wreck the country, W can claim mission accomplished.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2356/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Misguided Commemoration</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2341/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[L.A. Clippers owner helps fuel ignorance toward Blacks.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2341/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-03-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Kooks and Krazies</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2335/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If we have not reached the bottom of the barrel, we must be close.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2335/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-02-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Egypt? It’s in Africa.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2296/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Psss. Egypt is in northern Africa; pass it on.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2296/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-02-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Business Matters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2288/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Businesses, large and small, must take lead in creating jobs.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2288/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-01-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>MSNBC’s Progressive Façade</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2277/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Departure of popular MSNBC show host comes as no surprise.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2277/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-01-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beyond Post-Partisan</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2256/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Blacks need a 21st century politics based on self-determination.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2256/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-01-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Running Scared…Again</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2250/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The browning of America is the source of irrational fears]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2250/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-01-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Scalia’s House Call</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2242/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sets a bad precedent with visit.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2242/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2011-01-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Reclaiming King</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2232/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black Americans need to restore integrity to the King national holiday.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2232/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-12-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Conspiracy against Memory</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2229/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Gov. Barbour's remarks are part of broader conspiracy against memory.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2229/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-12-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Waiting for Mrs. Sheer</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2215/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Rather than bash teachers, we need to uplift the profession.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2215/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-12-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Selective Outrage</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2204/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Pardon my cynicism over the current liberal rebellion against Obama.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2204/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-12-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Need more LBJ, less Clinton</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2165/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It is time for Barack Obama to deliver the change he promised in 2008.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2165/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-11-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Midterm Lessons</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2155/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Instead of licking our wounds, we need to start planning the return blow.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2155/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-11-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>What Makes Me Nervous</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2144/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[I have more than a few things that make me "nervous" about this nation.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2144/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-10-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>More than a First Lady</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2127/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It's time the White House really recognized the potential of Mrs. Obama.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2127/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-10-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2101/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When a gift is really no "gift" at all.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2101/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-09-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Saving Black Boys</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2094/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We are approaching a point of no return if we do not save Black boys.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2094/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-09-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>How Bad Does it Have to Get?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2077/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[What else needs to happen before we wake up?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2077/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-09-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Hate of a Nation</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2066/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Our nation is in danger of being engulfed by hate.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2066/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-09-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Haters Among Us</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2034/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We must take a strong stand against the wave of anti-Islam fervor.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2034/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-08-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Unfinished Business</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2003/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Once again, our nation's dirty little secret comes out the closet.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/2003/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-07-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Who's the Boss?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1961/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It was the moment of truth and the President did what Presidents ought to do.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1961/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-06-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>In Defense of Helen Thomas</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1932/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Thomas' forced ouster exposes the hypocrisy of the Middle East "debate."]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1932/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-06-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Israel's Credibility Gap</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1916/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Israel's defense of its assault on aid ship has little credibility.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1916/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-06-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Study War No More</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1908/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We should honor the memory of our war dead by "studying war no more."]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1908/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-05-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The War on our Children</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1894/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[A war is raging against our children, and we are losing every battle.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1894/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-05-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Return of the Mack</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1735/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It was more "if you don't know, you better ask somebody" than State of the Union.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1735/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2010-01-29 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. President, It's Time</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1594/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President must speak clearly to concerns of Black Americans.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1594/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-10-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Exposing America’s Selfishness</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1578/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[For matters of sheer survival, Blacks need to engage health care debate.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1578/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-10-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Our Emmett Till</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1558/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The 16 year-old slain Chicago youth joins Emmett Till as a martyr.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1558/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-10-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>But for the grace…</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1534/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Black men need to heed warning from plight of Burress, Vick and others.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1534/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-09-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama's Blind Spot</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1519/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President appears to want to wish away racism rather than confront it.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1519/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-09-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Punk Politics</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1501/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[President Obama threw down the challenge, we must all rise up to meet it.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1501/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-09-09 22:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Back to School</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1486/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The first day of school reminds us of the promise of opportunity in America.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1486/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-09-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Hate Inc.</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1446/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Racism is thriving as an American industry during this recession.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1446/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-08-20 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Lady of Rage</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1432/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[In the course of an important African tour, Secretary of State Clinton loses her cool.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1432/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-08-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Tone Deaf Politics</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1413/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is cooking up a recipe for its own demise.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1413/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-08-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Health Care Matters</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1398/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The delay on health care reform may be well worth the wait; time will tell.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1398/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-07-30 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>One Step Forward, Two Back</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1383/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[After a truly honest expression of outrage, the President steps back.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1383/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-07-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Obama’s Responsibility</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1366/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The President's NAACP speech required greater context to shape dialogue.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1366/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-07-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Michael’s Final Bow</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1318/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We bid farewell to Michael Jackson and pray that his soul is at rest.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1318/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-07-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>GOPs Freaknik</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1289/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The Republican Party's exploits are like an R. Kelly music video, only juicier.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1289/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-06-25 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Father’s Gift</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1275/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[He is no longer with me but the lessons he imparted define my life.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1275/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-06-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Class of 2009</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1268/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[We need to celebrate high school graduation as a momentous achievement.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1268/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-06-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Motor City Blues</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1256/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The decline of the auto industry also marks cultural change.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1256/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-06-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Racists Need Eviction Notice</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1251/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The attack at the Holocaust Museum proves the need to eradicate racists.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1251/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-06-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Who was he fighting for?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1192/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Apparently the Yates family thought their son was fighting a war ended long ago.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1192/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-05-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Will We Let Gangs Win?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1180/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[They have declared war on our community. Will we return the favor?]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1180/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-05-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>My Education Rant</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1169/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Reality check: Our schools are failing and our children pay the price.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1169/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-05-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Free at 50</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1139/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[On my 50th birthday, I am reclaiming my life and renewing my spirit.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1139/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-04-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Home Grown Terror</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1122/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Leaked intelligence report is right in pointing out domestic threats.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1122/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-04-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Don’t Leave Africa Behind</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1105/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[With his first trip to Europe under his belt, President needs to turn to Africa.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1105/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-04-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Made in America</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1083/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[For some time now the glow that accompanied anything branded “American,” has lost its luster in the world community.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1083/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-04-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>More than just a game</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1039/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Tonight, my alma mater, Morgan State University, will make its first appearance in the NCAA Division I championship basketball tournament.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1039/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-03-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>A Foolish Stand</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1013/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It appears South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is prepared to stick by his guns and reject some of the federal stimulus dollars targeting his state.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/1013/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-03-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Will DC Residents ever be Citizens?</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/981/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Being a resident of Washington, D.C. is akin to being a sharecropper, forced to pay tribute to the landowner but having no rights in return.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/981/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-03-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Monkey Business at the NY Post</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/923/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The New York Post, holding true to its well deserved reputation as a right-wing leaning, racist rag, ran a cartoon in its February 17 edition that depicted the shooting of a monkey and by not so subtle suggestion, inferred the animal was the President of the United States.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/923/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-02-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>It’s about Jobs, Stupid</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/902/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[There is one major difference between Republicans in Congress who oppose President Obama’s economic stimulus package and the millions of Americans who need help. The politicians still have a job.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/902/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-02-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>CBC Chair No Fan of Gregg</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/870/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The election of the first Black President had many people pondering the role of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in light of public perceptions that Black Americans now had a friend in the White House, and the racially driven politics of yesterday would not be necessary.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/870/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-02-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Wacko Time Is Over</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/823/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Attention Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and your fellow right-wing practitioners of stalk talk – wacko time is over.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/823/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-01-25 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Nation has suffered during Bush years</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/799/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Watching President Bush defend his legacy during his final address Thursday night was a reminder of how far the 43rd President has fallen from grace.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/799/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2009-01-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Jena 6 Tragedy Continues</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/744/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The story of the “Jena 6” is an American tragedy. Six Black high school teenagers in a small southern town, charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate at Jena High School.]]></description>
					 <guid>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/744/</guid>
					 <pubDate>2008-12-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>More than One</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/721/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, the United States Senate is now without a Black member among its ranks. Despite the success Blacks have had getting elected as mayors, members of state legislatures, and to the House of Representatives, the Senate remains a body where Black Americans' access is limited.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-12-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When Politicians Steal</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/709/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The tale of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is not unique to the “Land of Lincoln,” but is becoming an increasingly regular commentary on the state of electoral politics and government.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-12-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>Mr. Obama's BIG Challenge</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/688/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The release of November’s unemployment numbers today clearly illustrates the challenge facing Barack Obama. Come January 20 he is faced with a challenge perhaps unlike any other that has confronted an American president in modern times.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-12-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>HUD is critical to recovery</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/668/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[It seems as though not a day passes when a mayor of a major city or county executive announces drastic cuts in government programs and services due to budget shortfalls as a result of the economic downturn.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>GOP Targets Unions in Opposing Auto Bailout</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/326/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[When President-elect Barack Obama held his first press conference he made clear that his priority was addressing the nation’s economic crisis.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>When Bad News is Not New News</title>
					 <link>http://www.northstarnews.com/columns/walter_l_fields_jr/article/307/</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[The bad news about high unemployment is not new news for Blacks.]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-11-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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					 <title>The Grand Old (White) Party</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[Executive Editor Walter Fields suggests the Republican Party made a turn for the worse at their conv]]></description>
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					 <pubDate>2008-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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