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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 17, 2010 - 10:46:29 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The wall-to-wall news coverage, the charity events, the pledges from international community have all raised hope for Haiti and her future. But there is always a gap between promised aid and help and the delivery of such aid, let alone the price of delivering such aid.';
  syndicate.index++;  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'The right to kill Americans?';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'With America using drone attacks in Pakistan, still secret prisons and late night detentions in Afghanistan and bombings and instability in Iraq, it is clear that the nation has her hands full and the president has not found a way to uproot the U.S. from military undertakings initiated by the Bush administration.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 15, 2010 - 9:43:25 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Things have not changed much since I was young. An unbiased view of African world history is still sadly missing from most school systems to the detriment of thousands of Black children every school year.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 11, 2010 - 8:30:31 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'I am part of a Black media delegation arranged by the Haiti Support Project and Dr. Ron Daniels, who is also a columnist for several weekly Black newspapers.  We are in in Port Au Prince to see firsthand and report back on the situation in the country. We arrived in Haiti Feb. 9 on a flight from New York to the Dominican Republic and then a charter flight into Port Au Prince.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 4, 2010 - 8:23:21 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'ATMORE, Alabama (FinalCall.com) - Student Minister James Muhammad of Muhammad\'s Mosque No. 69 in Birmingham, Alabama delivered an inspiring message to the inmates at Fountain Correctional Center during his visit on December 12, 2009.';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The destruction of Port-au-Prince is nearly total. The devastation is unparalleled. It will take years of unyielding commitment to rebuild this country—the first free Black Republic of the Western Hemisphere—before it can once again resume a measure of normalcy. ';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jan 15, 2010 - 7:53:53 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The news channels and talk radio were abuzz Jan. 11 with news of racially-tinged remarks about race and the American president from Democratic leader Harry Reid and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Haiti\'s fate as one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere has not been inevitable. It\'s history has been marked not only by natural disasters, but by political and economic conflict. It is a story of international intervention that has left the country particularly vulnerable.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jan 14, 2010 - 11:19:30 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'I\'ve been preaching the importance of our oral history since Columbia University Professor Dr. Manning Marable, and one of his doctorate candidates, Zaheer Ali gave me a wakeup call with Dr. Marable\'s research on an upcoming book on the life of Malcolm X.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Jan 11, 2010 - 3:22:02 PM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Congress must convene hearings into the sweeping surveillance of American Muslim organizations and mosques that threatens the foundational spirit of the United States Constitution.';
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