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		<title>Advance Praise for Claude Johnson&#8217;s Upcoming New Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what several great people say about Claude Johnson's upcoming new book, the first in a series detailing the pre-NBA history of African American basketball pioneers.]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Al Price, Black Basketball Pioneer, 1917-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Price was not only the oldest living former Harlem Globetrotter but was also one of 10 black players who in 1941 broke the racial color barrier in pro basketball by signing with the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets of the National Basketball League.  ]]></description>
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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>Toward Making Up With Kareem (We Hope)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want us to reconcile with Kareem, because instead of arguing we should be teaming 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>Our Federal Lawsuit Against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s Film Company, Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of the Harlem Rens historic African American basketball team have asked if we had anything to do with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s recent for-profit film, “On The Shoulders of Giants.”  We appreciate the movie, but the answer is simple.  No.  Here's what we're doing about it, and why.]]></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 City To Rename Bronx Street After John Isaacs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a community initiative passes final City Council approval, New York City will rename a Bronx street after former Harlem Rens star John Isaacs.  It is a section of Hoe Avenue that runs alongside the Madison Square Boys &#038; Girls Club where Isaacs worked as a youth counselor for nearly 50 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Zack Clayton, All-Time Harlem Rens Player, Born On This Date (1910)</title>
		<link>http://www.blackfives.com/zack-clayton-alltime-harlem-rens-player-born-date-1910/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 18:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zachariah "Zack" Clayton, one of the all-time greatest basketball players of the Black Fives Era as a star for the New York Renaissance and other teams, was born on May 4, 1910 in Philadelphia.]]></description>
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		<title>Harlem Globetrotter Reece &#8216;Goose&#8217; Tatum To Be Enshrined In Basketball Hall of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claude Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reece 'Goose' Tatum, who played with the Globetrotters from 1941 to 1955 and was known as the "Clown Prince of Basketball," will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of its 2011 class.]]></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>George Crowe, Last Rens Player, Would Have Been 90 Today</title>
		<link>http://www.blackfives.com/george-crowe-last-rens-player-would-have-been-90-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Fives</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Crowe, the last surviving member of the New York Rens all-black pro basketball team, would have been 90 years old today.  He died earlier this year.]]></description>
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