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	<title>Black Travel &#124; Black Heritage Travel &#124; Black History &#187; Washington DC</title>
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		<title>Step Afrika, Washington D.C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Step Afrika is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping&#8230;&#8230;..a competitive dance practiced on college campuses among black fraternities with roots in African dance traditions.  The group was founded in 1994 by Brian Williams, a Howard University graduate and Alpha Phi Alpha stepper who was struck by the similarities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Jazz Festival Preview &#124; Washington D.C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time once again for the largest contemporary jazz and soul festival in the country, the 18th Annual Capital Jazz Fest continuing its long-standing, highly anticipated 3-day music showcase June 4-6, 2010 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. A &#8220;weekend of cool jazz &#38; soul&#8221;, this year’s lineup is sure to electrify audiences, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harriet Tubman Collection Unveiled by NMAAHC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: A photograph from the 1880s of Harriet Tubman (left) with some she helped to escape from slavery, along with members of their families. Portrait photo in frameby Tarby Photo, Auburn, NY, n.d. Photo: Michael Barnes, Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired a collection of artifacts documenting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House &#124; Washington D.C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary McLeod Bethune achieved her greatest national and international recognition at this Washington, DC townhouse, which is now a National Historic Site operated by the U.S. Park Service. The house was not only her last home in Washington, DC, but also served as the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellington School for the Arts &#124; Washington, D.C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Named for the American jazz bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Ellington (1899–1974), the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts, located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C, was founded in 1974 and is the only DC public high school that provides professional arts training and college preparation to talented DC public school students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke Ellington&#8217;s Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The companion website of the one-hour PBS documentary, Duke Ellington&#8217;s Washington, about the African-American community in Washington D.C. during the early 20th century which nurtured the emergence of a surprising array of talented African-American lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and cultural figures, epitomized by Duke Ellington. The program is a dynamic blend of the music and pictures [...]]]></description>
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