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		<title>Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground Series</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/07/19/ayiti-reaching-higher-ground-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground Series OPENS JULY 22, 2010, closes Aug 22, 2010 Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground Series features a collection of photographs taken just after the earthquake in Haiti by Haitian-American photographer Regine Romain and founder, Brooklyn Photo Salon. Reception: Thursday, July 22 at 6pm RSVP at info@calabar-imports.com About Regine Romain Régine Romain is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Parade in the Bronx, July 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Re-Invention, Mission and Risk in hard times</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/07/08/re-invention-mission-and-risk-in-hard-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Working Your Creative Enterprise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calabar imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[down economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Atim Annette Oton After spending four days at the International African Arts Festival in Brooklyn as the business Calabar Imports, I observed an interesting phenomena and came to the conclusion that some black retail businesses and other  businesses these days are stuck in a rot. And rot is not polite word these days. The economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Dramas: Surviving the Depression</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/02/06/small-business-dramas-surviving-the-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Working Your Creative Enterprise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Atim Annette Oton, Feb 6, 2010 Even as the media continues to proclaim that things are getting better and the statistics are showing some improvements, the truth is for small businesses in local communities, it&#8217;s not getting better. Just talk to any small business today and you will hear the &#8220;pain&#8221; as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLK: Generations Speak</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/01/12/mlk-generations-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Two generations have come of age since the 1968 assassination of civil rights visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Join WNYC&#8217;s Brian Lehrer and Celeste Headlee, co-host of The Takeaway, for a lively multi-generational discussion about the impact of Dr. King&#8217;s life and legacy. Moderators: Brian Lehrer, host of WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show Celeste Headlee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening up shop… the basic steps to do</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/01/09/opening-up-shop%e2%80%a6-the-basic-steps-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening a store]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Atim Annette Oton, May 2006 For those thinking of opening a store&#8230;check out how we create our brand, Calabar-Imports-Prototype So, you finally have come up with a great idea for a business? Congratulations and welcome to the &#8220;biz mind&#8221; field called business ownership. My first step is to ask you this questionFirst, ask yourself this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmopolitan Brooklyn &#8211; Bed Stuy.</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2010/01/09/cosmopolitan-brooklyn-bed-stuy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grand Dakar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Lyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Thiam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospect Heights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Patricia Spears Jones At the performance in February at Le Dakar, Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam&#8217;s Clinton Hill eatery, Kim Lyons, a poet opined, unlike in Manhattan, directions in Brooklyn are vague, things are not &#8220;between,&#8221; but near or far. There&#8217;s no real single grid in Brooklyn, but rather many grids, so being &#8220;off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWII’s First Black Hero Gets First-Class Salute</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2009/12/31/wwii%e2%80%99s-first-black-hero-gets-first-class-salute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Distinguished Sailors 44-cent Commemorative First-Class stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorris Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first Black American hero of World War II]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony of the Distinguished Sailors 44-cent Commemorative First-Class stamps. The event is free and open to the public. When: 10:30 a.m., Thurs., Feb. 4, 2010 Where: The Arleigh and Roberta Burke Theater United States Navy Memorial 701 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC  20004-2608 Background: The U.S. Postal Service will immortalize Dori Miller and three other sailors who served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat is Leaking</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2009/12/31/the-boat-is-leaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Patricia Spears Jones, February 2009 The editor asked me to write about being unemployed and my job search.  Well.  It’s hard.  It’s boring.  It’s, as of this writing, ineffective.  It’s not for sissies. Unemployment is something I’ve gone through a few times before, but nothing like this.  People keep talking about a PLAN B [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Exhausted Spring</title>
		<link>http://calabarmag.com/website/2009/12/31/an-exhausted-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Patricia Spears Jones, May 2009 I am exhausted.   Been out of work since end of October and well, being out of work; looking for work is work.  The editor asked for something on the environment, but this time, I got to talk politics, the economy and very ugly buildings. We have a new President [...]]]></description>
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