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	<title>ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS &#187; Maafa</title>
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		<title>Brazilian slave port ruins unearthed in Rio’s Olympic facelift</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/12/27/brazilian-slave-port-ruins-unearthed-in-rios-olympic-facelift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists find remains of port where hundreds of thousands of Africans were sold to plantation owners Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 09.17 EST It was one of the busiest slave ports in the Americas, a filthy, bustling harbour where hundreds of thousands of Africans were sold into a life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio’s Cemetery of New Blacks sheds light on horrors of slave trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tooth analysis shows Africans taken from wide area ranging from Sudan in the north-east to Mozambique in the south Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 December 2011 15.21 EST Locals called it the &#8220;cemetery of the new blacks&#8221;, but in truth it wasn&#8217;t much of a cemetery. Devoid of headstones, wreaths or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI To Close Case on Emmett Till and End Civil Rights-era Cold Cases</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/11/05/fbi-to-close-case-on-emmett-till-and-end-civil-rights-era-cold-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ALLEN G. BREED and HOLBROOK MOHR 11/ 5/11 11:38 AM ET Huffington Post The FBI has announced that they are close to ending Civil Rights-era cold cases. The cases include murder cases in which there are no statute of limitations. So far the FBI have investigating 111 cases involving 124 deaths but are close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lena Baker Story</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/09/29/the-lena-baker-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lena Baker Story was written, directed, and produced by Ralph Wilcox. It is based on a true story and was inspired by Dr. Lela Bond Phillips&#8217; book Lena Baker Story. The Lena Baker Story takes place in the early 1900&#8242;s through 1945 in Cuthbert, Georgia. It&#8217;s the story of one woman&#8217;s attempt to rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Lynching in Georgia?</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/09/28/legal-lynching-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinalCall.com News National News Legal Lynching in Georgia? By Jesse Muhammad -Staff writer- Updated Sep 28, 2011 &#8211; 11:35:50 AM After execution of Troy Davis, supporters and family vow to fight death penalty (FinalCall.com) &#8211; The title of its state song, “Georgia on My Mind,” could be a fitting symbol of what is dominating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Innocence Isn&#8217;t Enough: An Audio Documentary About Troy Anthony Davis</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/09/11/when-innocence-isnt-enough-an-audio-documentary-about-troy-anthony-davis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUMMARY: Produced on 11-8-2007 and narrated by Naji Mujahid of the DC Radio Co-op/Peoples&#8217; MEDIA Center, this work is a documentary about the plight of Troy Davis who has been on Death Row in Georgia since 1991; throughout this time he has maintained his innocence. He was convicted with no material evidence and solely on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video shows white teens driving over, killing Black man, says DA</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/08/09/video-shows-white-teens-driving-over-killing-black-man-says-da/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein, CNN Special Investigations August 8, 2011 2:49 p.m. EDT Editor&#8217;s note: The following story contains language some readers may consider offensive. Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) &#8212; On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incarceration Nation</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/04/07/incarceration-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Linn Washington, Jr. Mass Black incarceration is a kind of “punitive backlash” against the gains of the Sixties, and only a &#8220;a major social movement&#8221; can challenge it. Nowhere on the planet is mass imprisonment more entrenched than in the United States. &#8220;The U.S. imprisons more than South Africa did under apartheid.” At every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COINTELPRO 101: Documentary</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2011/04/06/cointelpro-101-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COINTELPRO may not be a well-understood acronym but its meaning and continuing impact are absolutely central to understanding the government’s wars and repression against progressive movements. COINTELPRO represents the state’s strategy to prevent movements and communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice. COINTELPRO is both a formal program of the FBI and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BANISHED: American Ethnic Cleansings &#124; Independent Documentary</title>
		<link>http://adiama.com/ancestralconnections/2010/12/28/banished-american-ethnic-cleansings-independent-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hundred years ago, in communities across the U.S., white residents forced thousands of black families to flee their homes. Even a century later, these towns remain almost entirely white. BANISHED tells the story of three of these communities and their black descendants, who return to learn their shocking histories. &#8220;My grandmother used to tell [...]]]></description>
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