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	<title>Kevin Jennings</title>
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	<description>Author of Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/10/from-beyond-the-grave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a check today for $256.13 from the Physicians Life Insurance Company of Omaha, Nebraska.
It was a payout on a life insurance policy my Mom, who died in 2002, had let lapse in 1982.
To say a chill ran down my spine would be an understatement.
Apparently Mom had taken out a life insurance policy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Thumper</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/10/bible-thumper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 05:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent gathering of Executive Directors of LGBT rights organizations, I made a point which I illustrated with a Bible verse.  My good friend, the fabulous  Kate Kendell (E.D. of the National Center for Lesbian Rights), laughed and said “Well, it wouldn’t be one of these meetings if Kevin Jennings didn’t quote the Bible!”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Cleansing in America, or What We Don’t Learn in U.S. History</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/07/racial-cleansing-in-america-or-what-we-don%e2%80%99t-learn-in-us-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I pride myself on my knowledge of history.  I majored in it, graduating magna cum laude from Harvard; I taught it for ten years; I have written a history textbook and helped make a Sundance Award-winning historical documentary; I spent most of my recent sabbatical touring historical sites, especially those associated with African-American history, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Appalachia, Day Three:  Canning</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/04/report-from-appalachia-day-three-canning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 03:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When my Mom died in 2002, she had very few material possessions.  One of the few things she left behind that I wanted was a jar of her green beans.  Mom canned green beans each spring, like she had learned to as a girl in Appalachia seventy years before, even thought you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Appalachia, Day Two: C is for Coon</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/04/report-from-appalachia-day-two-c-is-for-coon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 03:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent most of Day Two on a bus, visiting groups funded by ACF in West Virginia and southwest Virginia.  These included South Central Educational Development, which is a community center in Bluefield, West Virginia that grew out of an HIV Prevention project; Big Creek People in Action, which does organizing in McDowell County, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Appalachia, Day One</title>
		<link>http://kevinjennings.com/blog/2008/05/02/report-from-appalachia-day-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 03:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Abingdon, Virginia as part of the Appalachian Community Fund’s First Hand Educational Tour, designed to introduce folks form out side the region to the conditions that those inside of it face every day.  Tonight we met with folks from the Virginia Black Lung Association, which works to support disabled coal miners, [...]]]></description>
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