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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>Local 12-year-old Helps Freedom Center Fan the Flame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[12-year-old Maia Thompson, a seventh grader at Mason Middle School, has stepped up to make a difference in her community. Hearing the December 2011 news reports that the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has concerns for its long term financial sustainability, Maia decided to take action. In a mere two takes, Maia produced a YouTube [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Sex Trafficking is not just &#8220;over there&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/child-sex-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/child-sex-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lblocher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although popular conceptions of sex trafficking are focused internationally (think the Liam Neeson film &#8220;Taken&#8221;), the brutal reality is that it&#8217;s also happening here in here in Ohio, as it across the United States. The trafficking of children into the sex trade is, in fact, just one form of modern slavery that is controlling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Human Trafficking Awareness Day</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/national-human-trafficking-awareness-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lblocher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, January 11th, is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. The U.S. Senate resolved three years ago that this day would be dedicated nationally to raising awareness of and opposition to human trafficking. January is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month. This is a cause to which we here at the Freedom Center are fully dedicated, both [...]]]></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>
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		<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>David Blight to Lecture on the Civil War Legacy December 8</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/dr-david-blight-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6884</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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		<title>Are Your State’s Laws Against Child Sex Trafficking Strong Enough?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/states-laws-child-sex-trafficking-strong/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/states-laws-child-sex-trafficking-strong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lblocher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many misconceptions around modern slavery is that it doesn&#8217;t happen here in the United States. As so many of our friends in the modern-day abolitionist movement are showing daily, though, slavery is happening in this country and, like any crime, we need strong, clear and enforceable laws in place to end it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Denies Membership to Interracial Couples: Remember the Lovings</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/pike-county-ky-church-denies-membership-interracial-couples/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/pike-county-ky-church-denies-membership-interracial-couples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, in Pike County, Kentucky has voted to not accept interracial couples into membership or allow them to &#8220;take part&#8221; in worship activities. The vote took place on Monday. While the church says everyone is welcome to come worship, they do not condone interracial marriage. The proposal said &#8220;parties of such marriages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lester Horwitz Discusses Book, The Longest Raid of the Civil War</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/longest-raid-civil-war-author-lester-horwitz-visits-freedom-center/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/longest-raid-civil-war-author-lester-horwitz-visits-freedom-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, the Freedom Center&#8217;s book club enjoyed the pleasure of hearing Pulitzer-nominated author, Lester Horwitz discuss his best-selling book, The Longest Raid of the Civil War, which developed after Horwitz learned his home was raided by Confederate General John Hunt-Morgan in 1863. “I love history, so when I heard there was some historic information about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Case You Missed the Memo, Girls, Blackface is No Longer “In”</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/preferred-belief-oneunconscious-incompetency/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/preferred-belief-oneunconscious-incompetency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Creech</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having another of those YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME moments. Earlier today, a friend shared a link  to a news story &#8211; a story about a group of six girls at Southern Mississippi University who decided to attend a 1980s-themed party as the Huxtable family from The Cosby Show. Problem, you ask? These [...]]]></description>
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