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		<title>Melancholy Dame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first black sound film was &#8220;Melancholy Dame,&#8221; a comedy two reeler, starring Evelyn Preer, Roberta Hyson, Edward Thomspons, and Spencer Williamson. Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer, a husband and wife comedy team in real life, and Spencer (Andy of Amos &#38; Andy) Williams and Roberta Hyson are featured in this black comedy of errors. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepin Fetchit (1902 &#8211; 1985)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Stepin Fetchit was named Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry.  Fetchit, an actor and comedian,  and Carolynne Snowden played in the first on-screen black romance in the movie, &#8220;In Old Kentucky.&#8221;  Fetchit was the first black actor to receive feature billing in movies, and the first black to appear in films with stars like Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtis Charles Flood (January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curtis Charles Flood (January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997) was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Oakland, California. Position: Centerfielder Bats: Right, Throws: Right Height: 5&#8242; 9&#8243;, Weight: 165 lb. Born: January 18, 1938 in Houston, TX High School: Oakland Technical (Oakland, CA) Signed by the Cincinnati Redlegs as an amateur free agent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Favorite Black History Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Favorite 20 Black History Month Quotations 1. I am America. I am the part you won&#8217;t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. &#8211; Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975) 2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black History Month Quotes Quicklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black History Month Quotes Quicklist 1. I am America. I am the part you won&#8217;t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. &#8211; Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975) 2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Lucas (Samuel Milady, 1840 &#8211; 1916)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Lucas (Samuel Milady, 1940 &#8211; 1916) was the first black to play the title role in &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin&#8221; on film. He had been the first black man to play Uncle Tom on stage in 1878. Born in Washington, Ohio, Lucas performed with major minstrel troupes, wrote one of the most popular minstrel songs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wooing and Wedding of a Coon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wooing and Wedding of a Coon is the earliest known American made film with an all-black cast.  A derogatory one-reeler, the film presented undisguised mockery of a black couple. The first cinematic coon appeared in Wooing and Wedding of a Coon (1905), a stupendously racist portrayal of two dimwitted and stuttering buffoons. The coon caricature is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off to Bloomingdale Asylum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first appearance of Black people in film came in &#8220;Off to Bloomingdale Asylum in 1902.  The slapstick comedy was made in France, and produced by George Melies.  The black characters may have been played by white characters. “Off to Bloomingdale Asylum” (1901) features a carriage with a skeletal horse and black face painted minstrels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madame Sul Te-Wan (1873 &#8211; 1959)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the east coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community. She became known as a character actress, appeared in high profile films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 100+ Black History Month Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[African Americans&#8230; This website is dedicated to all things for and about the African American Diaspora. African American Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections&#8230; African American Studies subject guide including respositories, collections in several repositories and single repositories, and individual collections. African American History&#8230; Annotated list of links to web sites covering African American history. African [...]]]></description>
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