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		<title>Bird of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lynne Arrowsmith
Douglas &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Gray is one of my favorite birders, and he has agreed to share his &#8220;Bird of the Month&#8221; each month with the Outdoor Afro community. Birding is a hobby almost anyone can do no matter the age, and it can open up a whole new world of recreation and environmental stewardship. Birds are everywhere &#8212; from the tallest city skyscrapers to the remote backwoods! With Doug&#8217;s help, you can perhaps come to recognize birds found right where you live!
Bird of the Month
Douglas Gray, Outdoor Afro Contributor
Seen ...]]></description>
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		<title>On Vacation!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Outdoor Afro Family is on vacation this week, practicing what we preach: camping in the mountains!
In the meantime, we hope you are creating some fun summer memories of your own in the outdoors.
Can&#8217;t wait to share with you all the details and photos!
Have a great week,
Rue
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		<title>Rooted in the Earth &#8211; A Testimony of Love for the Environment</title>
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nullDianne Glave has been a friend of Outdoor Afro from the beginning, starting when I discovered her important work related to African American foodways to research for a blog I wrote last year. Dianne&#8217;s newest book, Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage has just begun arriving in mailboxes this week.  So we asked Dianne to share with us some of the journey leading her to write this terrific work, and we hope you will be inspired to purchase your own copy that covers a ground-breaking ...]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor Afro Featured in High Country News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outdoor Afro is so thrilled to be featured in the latest issue of the High Country News Green Justice edition!
Writer Stephanie Ogburn captured the fun spirit of a recent birdwatching event, situated in a stretch of shoreline that borders an industrial zone and a large community of color in Oakland, California. The event was a collaborative effort between Outdoor Afro and Golden Gate Audubon of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most participants were first-time birders, and left the trip inspired to learn more about the birds and other wildlife found right ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jump In!</title>
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Here is some water fun enjoyed by my kids and their cousins, courtesy of swimming skills! Knowing how to swim is the gift that keeps on giving and is easiest to learn as a young child. Swimmers enjoy sports such as kayaking, rafting, diving, snorkeling, scuba and can interact with water confidently.
According to a Diversity in Aquatics article, &#8220;Black children drown at a rate more than three times that of white children,&#8221; and nearly 70 percent of African-American children do not know how to swim according to a YMCA survey.
It&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 4th of July and BBQ Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rue at 7, circa 1980
Regardless of how patriotic you are, the 4th of July represents family gatherings, fireworks, and great food &#8212; all to be experienced outdoors. Growing up, my family spent nearly every 4th of July at our place in Clearlake, California.
Cousins and close family friends would join us for non-stop swimming, hiking, talent shows, and driveway basketball games. Our fathers closely tended the 55-gallon drum that cooked &#8220;low and slow&#8221; meats seasoned at least two days before. And inside on the kitchen stove, the pressure cooker hissed the readiness ...]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Fun in Tilden Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday could hardly be considered warm in the Bay Area, with temperatures never jumping above 68 degrees where I live. But it is summer and a weekend, thus me and the kids in my care craved more than a park, we wanted to be near a body of water. So my kids, along with two nieces and a nephew decided to pile in the truck in the afternoon and head to the hills of Tilden Park to spend time at Lake Anza, which is considered the jewel of the East ...]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor Nation!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 19-20, 2010
New York City
Outdoor Afro had the wonderful experience this past weekend to be a part of Outdoor Nation, a youth summit designed to reconnect America’s youth to the great outdoors and inform organizations of what youth care about most. This was also the first official listening session as a part of Obama’s Great Outdoors Conference this past spring.

The event began with a mixer Friday night sponsored by Backpacker Magazine. Leadership from The North Face, VF Outdoors (TNF parent company), The Natural Leaders Network (Children and Nature Network), New ...]]></description>
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		<title>An REI Commercial Outdoor Afros Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a great way to begin the day. I woke up to some buzz in my inbox this morning about the new REI commercial featuring an unmistakably brown family &#8212; WOW!
Check it out:

Does this commercial inspire you to get outdoors? Tell me what you think!
Great job REI!
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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Get Any Better Than This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this picture and I simply thought: Evocative! The water, the warmth, the smell of fresh green things&#8230;happy summer Outdoor Afros. I hope you all get to make memories like this one!

Photo courtesy of Tyson Simmons, who is pictured here with his sister at Colorado Bend State Park.
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