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		<title>Jay-Z&#8217;s Link To Brooklyn&#8217;s Century-Old Black Basketball History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay-Z's co-ownership of the Brooklyn Nets reminds us of the Smart Set Athletic Club -- America's first all-black basketball team -- whose players lived a short stroll away from the Marcy Housing Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where he grew up.]]></description>
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		<title>Kareem Outed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar be a true giant, or, like in the movie Airplane!, do we have him "confused with someone else"?]]></description>
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		<title>Lockout Blues, and Ancient Hoops Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is what some of basketball's founding fathers would say about the current N.B.A. lockout.]]></description>
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		<title>New York Rens Won First World Pro Basketball Tournament On Today&#8217;s Date</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a reminder that today is the anniversary of the date in 1939 when the all-black New York Renaissance (a.k.a. Harlem Rens) won the inaugural World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago.]]></description>
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		<title>A Fine Clip Honoring NBA Pioneer Clifton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fine clip from ESPN.com honors Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first three African Americans to play in the NBA. Clifton played for the New York Rens and the Harlem Globetrotters before signing with the Knicks in 1950.]]></description>
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		<title>The 2010 World Basketball Orgy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For fans like me, the amazing basketball events of last week -- beautifully staged by Nike and the Basketball Hall of Fame, from Harlem to Springfield and back -- might as well have been called the "World Basketball Orgy."]]></description>
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		<title>Our Interview With NBA Pioneer Earl Lloyd About His New Book</title>
		<link>http://www.blackfives.com/our-interview-with-nba-pioneer-earl-lloyd-about-his-new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed basketball pioneer Earl Lloyd, the first black player in the NBA, who says he's "extremely retired," about his new book, "Moonfixer."]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Fives: Basketball&#8217;s Forgotten (Black) History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vince Thomas for TheRoot.com: Before the NBA was desegregated, there were the Black Fives.]]></description>
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		<title>ESPN Features Black Fives Era History (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESPN's feature about the Black Fives Era was great for viewers, the network, descendants, historians, NBA players, and league execs; it raised awareness while increasing the audience for this topic.]]></description>
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		<title>NBA-Insider David Aldridge On BlackFives.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you see what "NBA-Insider" David Aldridge wrote about me and BlackFives.com in his column on NBA.com?]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers For George Crowe …</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I heard from a friend of his, that George Crowe called to say he "feels he is dying."  Crowe is the last living former New York (Harlem) Rens player.]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Marks 100 Years Of Blacks In Professional Basketball</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago this October, in 1910, the first all-black play-for-pay team, the New York All Stars, were formed in New York City.]]></description>
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