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<description><![CDATA[Susan Klopfer, author, speaker, and diversity consultant, covers civil rights topics -- including the story of Emmett Till; update on FBI cold cases, and tales of Mississippi Delta martyrs. Her newest book, Profit From Cultural Diversity: Getting Along With Others, is set for publication by CreateSpace in both e-book and print book formats to coincide with American Education Week in the third week of November. Other books by Klopfer, "Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited" and "The Emmett Till Book" are now in print and are carried in most online bookstores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. "Where Rebels ... ]]></description>
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<title>From Bad To Great And Back To Worse? Making Diversity Stick</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:45:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Progressive companies work to increase tolerance in the workplace and protect themselves against discrimination lawsuits. Many larger US corporations now offer diversity training - from videos and Web seminars to workshops and retreats - with targeted spending totaling in the billions. With purse strings tight and ongoing debate over diversity training effectiveness, some companies are taking a second look at whether it's needed - or better, recognizing diversity in the workplace is definitely needed and how to do it right.]]></description>
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<title>Companies Smart to Embrace Diversity - Affects Bottom Line, Experts Say</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:07:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today's companies and their managers need to work harder than ever in creating positive, inclusive workplace environments and thus improving productivity in their businesses and organizations. Diversity matters to the bottom line.]]></description>
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<title>Students May Not Like It, But Speech Classes Prepare Them For Today's Globalized Work Force</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:09:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Communication skills are essential in today's globalized and diverse society, so much that most junior colleges, colleges and universities - and even organizations and businesses - offer students and employees courses in effective communication. Learning to cut through the "semantic" noise is only one of the important skills today's students are taught so they can learn to be competent communicators.]]></description>
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<title>People Learn Culture, Rules, Through Communication</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:38:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of our waking hours are spent sharing thoughts, message or information with others. When we communicate, we are experiencing one of the most critical aspects of our lives. With increased domestic diversity and globalization of the marketplace, we are experiencing a growing need to communicate more effectively at work and in our communities, as we try to better understand people representing cultures much different from our own.]]></description>
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<title>Caring About Diversity Means Terms Like 'Illegal Alien' Have No Place in Diversity Message</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:04:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ana is talking with one of her team members about a newly employed woman who has a "strange" last name. "I wonder where she's from. I'll bet you she's an illegal alien," Ana whispers to a co-worker.]]></description>
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<title>While Most US Citizens Speak English, Employers Beware of Enforcing English-Only Rules</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:15:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While neighboring Canada has two official languages and India many, the U.S. has none. Even though most of its citizens speak English (and very few speak languages such as Navajo), this country has never chosen to designate officially just one language.]]></description>
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<title>People From Diverse Communities Often Afraid to Seek Mental Health Treatment</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:07:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too often, stigma over mental health issues results in fear, mistrust, and violence against people living with mental illness and their families, say officials from the U.S. Public Health Service. Companies that manage and value diversity, though, understand and support employees undergoing mental health treatment, finding it pays to be supportive of their workforce.]]></description>
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<title>Value and Manage Diversity - The Top Talent Will Come To You</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Say what?" As soon as she left the graduation stage, diploma in hand, Jill received a whisper from her favorite professor, "Remember to be aware of the prevailing corporate culture, wherever you go." Jill paused to wonder just what the professor was talking about, faintly recalling the word "culture" from her organizational sociology class.]]></description>
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<title>Effective Diversity Management Starts From Within - Self-Awareness Is Key</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Effective manager are good leaders. They are responsible for creating a work environment in which the contributions of all people are recognized. For this to happen, managers must understand how to best use people's differences so that their special attributes can be used to achieve company goals and objectives.]]></description>
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<title>Respect Others And You Are On Your Way To Embracing Diversity</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:24:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For leaders, embracing diversity means they must do far more than merely accept the existence of diversity. To make diversity work, they must embrace it, and this starts by modeling good diversity skills.]]></description>
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<title>Best Managers Still May Need Education For Meeting Challenges of Diversity</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:02:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aren't associated management problems such as resistance and conflict making diversity too difficult to adopt by most organizations? It's a good question to ask, and two popular diversity spokespeople state diversity is clearly possible, as long as leaders are well educated in the requisite skills for managing it.]]></description>
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<title>Looking For a Move to Diversity Management? Consider Change Management Practices</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:31:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Karen remembers the diversity management class she took back in graduate school. The basic ideas sounded practical and the professor kept everyone's attention with his case studies about this new business practice. Now her boss of two years, at the regional bank, is suggesting Karen may be asked to oversee a transition team to move the bank from affirmative action and valuing differences to a focus on managing diversity.]]></description>
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<title>Gossip, Bullying Have No Place at Work - Diversity Should Be Valued at Work</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:23:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sara B., a married, gay woman, turned in her notice to human resources, even though she had not found another job.No one bothered to ask her for an exit interview, even though Sara's predecessor had stayed on the job for less than one year. Does your organization understand the importance of managing and valuing diversity? Sara hopes her next employer will be more understanding and accepting of her sexual orientation.]]></description>
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<title>AA, EEO, MVD - Important Terms to Know For All Businesses Today</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:39:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Confused over AA, EEO and MVD? You probably are not alone, yet understanding these terms -- how they relate and how they differ, as well as their impact on any organization or business -- spells out the difference between diversity competence and the need for diversity education.]]></description>
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<title>Diversify Your Business and Watch it Grow</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:41:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is your business still stuck back in the 50s with a workforce that is not diversified? With today's globalization and changing population, your customer base is rapidly changing. We're all getting older and if you look around, you will see that our faces are changing, too. It's opportunity lost for any progressive business that doesn't start with the basics of hiring people who represent the customers they are trying to serve.]]></description>
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<title>Retire, Think, Write and Publish!</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:00:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Retirees (teachers, lawyers, waitresses, stay-at-home moms and others) can take advantage of today's new directions for writing, publishing, marketing and distributing books. Why spend time bored at the beach, when a laptop can mean extra money and a new focus on life.]]></description>
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<title>Mississippi Grad Student Seeks Old Research Paper - Sorry He Did Not Have a Copy Machine Back in '94</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Mississippi graduate student has a fascinating story to tell. Back in 1994, he was the last person to interview one of Emmett Till's murderers. If only Michael Rosa had owned a tape recorder or copy machine, he wouldn't be trying so hard to remember the details now that he's repeating the assignment.]]></description>
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<title>Getting Started - Easier Than You Might Think</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:28:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My to-do list is full. It is an important list because this is what will help me seriously get to work on my book. To build it, I thought of the obstacles that have been keeping me from getting started.
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<title>Stuck? Write the Title</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:09:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Writers block can be serious, especially when a deadline approaches. But help is available on the Internet -- several writers give tips.]]></description>
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<title>Writers - Expect Heightened Interest in Civil Rights Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:58:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyday memories of everyday people, not just the rich and famous, have historical importance. If we do not collect and preserve these stories, then one day they will disappear forever.]]></description>
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<title>JoAnna Lund's People Skills Live On</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 10:38:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[JoAnna Lund turned a 130-lb weight loss into a successful business, using her own cooking skills. The Iowa farmers wife grew her business by listening to customings and taking their suggestions to heart.]]></description>
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<title>Fannie Lou Hamer Acted On Her Dreams</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 10:05:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress have pledged to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act in honor of three women who were heroes in the modern civil rights movement. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Delta sharecropper and orator, is less known outside of Mississippi than Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King. But Hamer, remembered for her soul-filled singing, was close to the hearts of many who worked around her and admired her unique strengths.]]></description>
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<title>Black Farmers To Rally; Anger Over Foreclosures, Settlements And More</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:23:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Black farmers will gather in Washington, D.C., April 26 to voice displeasure over the recent Pigford v. Johanns settlement. But all farmers are being asked to support this rally including Hispanics, Native Americans and women, says a seasoned farming rights activist.]]></description>
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<title>Spying on Peace Groups Not Surprising Says Civil Rights Vet</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:05:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As debate intensifies over reports of a secret FBI counterterrorism unit that monitored and infiltrated a Pennsylvania peace group opposing the Iraq invasion, some 60s civil rights movement veterans say they are not surprised - since the same thing happened to them almost 50 years ago. ]]></description>
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<title>Voting Machine Fraud Questioned by 'Ordinary Citizens'</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:19:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Voting rights issues - fraud and violence - are nothing new in the United States. Recent actions by ordinary citizens, though, make a difference.]]></description>
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<title>A Christmas Boycott That Worked</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:00:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dreams of a "white" Christmas were halted by an effective NAACP boycott over forty years ago in the Mississippi Delta.]]></description>
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<title>FBI Investigated George Lee's Murder; Suspects Never Tried</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Interviewed by Newsday in 2000, Ernest White, a close friend of the Rev. George Lee's, said that he always suspected that a local handyman and a gravel hauler were involved in Lee's murder that took place in 1955 in Belzoni, Mississippi. Rev. Lee was a voting rights advocate]]></description>
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<title>Katrina and Genocide? Looking for Clues in Mississippi's Past</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:16:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Was the lack of preparation and the criminally negligent response by federal agencies to Hurricane Katrina planned genocide? Neighboring Mississippi's troubled civil rights past is considered in response to such assertions.]]></description>
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<title>Voting Rights Act of 1965: Rev. George Lee Remembered</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:14:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rev. George Washington Lee, the first black person to register to vote in Mississippi's Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot to death on a neighborhood street while driving his car on the night of May 7, 1955. His death helped bring about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Critical provisions are coming up for reauthorization. ]]></description>
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<title>A  Mississippi Murder After Emmett Till</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:38:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 1955 murder of young Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta was followed by the killing of another Delta black and his wife; the killer was a friend of Till's murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryan.
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<title>Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part III</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:24:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Birdia Keglar and her friend, Adelina Hamlett, were killed while trying to achieve voting rights for Blacks in Mississippi. Keglar was a business woman and Hamlett had been a teacher. Author Susan Klopfer believes their "cold case" should be considered by the U.S. Department of Justice.]]></description>
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<title>Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part II</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:10:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The untimely deaths of Birdia Keglar and Adeline Hamlet officially resulted from an "auto accident," even though no investigative reports exist - and most likely never existed. Months earlier, both women were hanged in effigy by local Klansmen and warned not to participate in further voting rights activities. Each had testified before a congressional hearing in support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The deaths of both women should be considered "cold cases" by the U.S. Justice Department, states Susan Klopfer, author of "Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Reconsidered."]]></description>
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<title>Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:05:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Birdia Keglar and Adeline Hamlet of Charleston, Mississippi lost their lives fighting for the right to vote. Their deaths have never been investigated by any law enforcement agency (local or federal) and their story is the focus of this three-part series celebrating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that soon will be considered for reauthorization.]]></description>
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<title>Where Two Murderers of  Emmett Till 'Spent the Night'</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:19:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some fifty years ago in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, two of the men who brutally murdered young Chicagoan Emmett Till visited a nearby relative's home shortly afterwards where they spent the night. ]]></description>
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<title>November Reminder: Kennedy Assassination had Mississippi Roots</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 06:36:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many interesting asides to the Mississippi civil rights story but perhaps none quite so compelling (and less known) as this: Seven years before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the magnolia state's Sen. James O. Eastland met with Guy Banister, a controversial CIA operative and retired FBI agent in charge of the Chicago bureau who was later linked to Lee Harvey Oswald and Eastland through Eastland's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or SISS.

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<title>Return to the Land of Emmett Till</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:40:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOME THIRTY YEARS after reporting on the Emmett Till case for Ebony magazine, Cloyte Murdock Larsson, a former Ebony staffer, returned to write an article on "The New Mississippi." (Cloyte Murdock Larsson, "Land of the Emmett Till Murder Revisited," Ebony, March 1986.) Larsson and young Till had shared the same birth date.  ]]></description>
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