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		<title>Kelly Miller: First African-American Mathematics Graduate Student and Influential Founder of Howard&#8217;s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leshell Hatley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1887, Kelly Miller became the first African-American Mathematics Graduate Student.  He went on to become extremely influential during the debates between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois and planted the seed for what is now called the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.


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		<title>Dr. Joy DeGruy: Researcher, Motivational Speaker, Author, Educator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leshell Hatley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter. Dr. Joy, as most know her, is a tell-it-like-it-is ambassador for healing and a voice for those who've struggled in search of the past, and continue to struggle through the present.


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		<title>Dr. Robert Bell, Team Win Netflix $1Million Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leshell Hatley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Robert Bell is an African-American statistician - a demographic that has low statistical numbers in and of itself.  How many African-American statisticians do you know?  Probably not many.  And how many do you know have won $1 million challenges?  Well, we know of at least one!


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		<title>Risa Lavizzo-Mourey: M.D., M.B.A., &amp; CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2009/07/risa-lavizzo-mourey-m-d-m-b-a-ceo-of-robert-wood-johnson-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leshell Hatley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., is the fourth president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a position she assumed in January 2003. She originally joined the staff in April 2001 as the senior vice president and director, Health Care Group. In 2004, she was voted #22 of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes Magazine.


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		<title>MarK Dean: Holder of 3 of 9 Patents for Personal Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leshell Hatley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Dean is an inventor and a computer scientist. He holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based. He led the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led the design team responsible for creating the first one-gigahertz computer processor chip.


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