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		<title>Guest Post: Eddie Robinson&#8217;s Story, A Reminder of How Far America Has Come</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/02/guest-post-eddie-robinsons-story-reminder-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I speak to groups about Eddie Robinson, whose biography I wrote a few years after he died in 2007, I often request a show of hands from the audience in response to this sequence of questions: How many of you were born sometime during the 1950s? How about in the 1960s? I ask the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Black History Relevant in 2012?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/black-history-relevant-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is studying black history relevant in 2012? One could presume that since African-American innovations are more visible and greater accepted into popular culture that there is no longer a need to engage in discourse on the topic of black history. However, had it not been for the vision of impassioned revolutionaries like Dr. Carter G. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Crittenden Compromise Marks End of Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/death-crittenden-compromise-marks-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/death-crittenden-compromise-marks-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 16th, 1861 was the day that antebellum diplomacy between the Union and the Confederacy died. The Crittenden compromise, though proposed after four states had already seceded from the Union, was meant to prevent an all-out war between the Union and Confederacy. The proposed compromise would consist of a series of constitutional amendments that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You March? Reflections on MLK Day</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/march-reflections-mlk-day/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/march-reflections-mlk-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fan The Flame]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Do You March? On Dr. Martin Luther King Day, my friend, whom I’ll call “Bishop,” called me around 8:30 am, wanting to know if I had the day off and what I was doing. I told him our Public Allies class was celebrating a day in service—“a day on, not off,” and was participating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Freedom Being Censored?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/stop-online-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/stop-online-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>

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		<title>Star of the West Fired Upon in Charleston Harbor!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/star-west-fired-charleston-harbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=7255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[January 9th, 1861 is a date that should be known well by any American. That day, an artillery battery operated by Cadets from the Citadel fired upon the Star of the West, a merchant ship sent to resupply the garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The withdrawal of the Federal garrison had been demanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Would &#8220;Big O&#8221; Do?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/class-session-big-shows-civility-athleticism/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/class-session-big-shows-civility-athleticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queen City Conductor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NCAA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Xavier University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=7014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anytime something negative happens in Cincinnati, it seems that people can never treat it as an incident and isolate it away from our city’s image. After the fight that broke out at the Crosstown Shootout game between Xavier University and University of Cincinnati became the most trended national news story, the footage coupled with quotes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cincinnati&#8217;s Connections to the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/cincinnatis-connections-civil-war/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/cincinnatis-connections-civil-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Brigade of Cincinnati]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Siege of Cincinnati]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cincinnati&#8217;s role in the American Civil War was significant on many levels. Guns were manufactured here. Several training camps were established around the city to prepare Union troops for battle. And, for one month in 1862, Cincinnati was threatened by invasion from the South, which would have made it the first Norhtern city to fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Day 2011</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/human-rights-day-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/human-rights-day-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – we must, in the words of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, &#8220;acknowledge its enduring relevance for our own times.&#8221; To read his entire statement, click here. As you watch the video below think about the rights you have and the rights of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with David Blight (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Blight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emancipation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fredrick Douglass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W.E.B. DuBois]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author David Blight will lecture at the Freedom Center on December 8 at 6:30 pm on two of his books, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Blight is a professor of American History at Yale University, is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]]]></description>
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