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		<title>A Touch of Freedom</title>
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					<description><![CDATA["A Touch of Freedom" was written and published by Dr. Mamie Smith in 2011.  She included it in a third book entitled Medicine: A Daily Dose of Spirituality.  A champion for human rights as long as remembered, Smith believes human rights have their foundation in divine rights.  Freedom is a fundamental right for all people because God created the "man in his image" free. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[AMANDA THE POET Amanda Gorman: The Poet. What can I say that has not already been said? I don&#8217;t know, but what I can say is, as I watched this young, black woman stand before the world with the face of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Maya Angelou: HOW TO STAND…YET AGAIN Still I Rise You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?‘Cause [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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