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        <title><![CDATA[Karen Toulon - Former Senior Editor]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Content is Queen’ Investor Targets $20 Billion Under Management]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:42:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[LaChanze Stars in a Play That Waited 66 Years for Its Broadway Moment]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Tony-, Obie-, and Emmy-winning actress discusses Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, Black Theatre United, and A New Deal for the performing arts. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:42:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ford Foundation’s Walker Says Philanthropy Should Be ‘Uncomfortable’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The foundation president talks about leveraging the capital markets and taking inspiration from James Baldwin and John Lewis to make change.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Lingerie Stores Are Coming Next Year]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lingerie company that built its customer base online is now turning to physical retail for growth. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-30/rihanna-s-billion-dollar-savage-x-fenty-brand-is-opening-storefronts-in-2022</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:02:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Howard’s Business School Preps MBA Grads for Post-George Floyd World]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dean Anthony Wilbon says companies have been changing, but there’s still “a lot to learn.”]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-27/howard-business-school-s-anthony-wilbon-on-george-floyd-black-entrepreneurship</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Anthony Wilbon, dean of Howard University School of Business, joins Bloomberg’s Karen Toulon to discuss diversity at the nation’s top MBA programs.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Terence Blanchard, the Met’s First Black Composer, Sees Opera for More People]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The multi-Grammy award-winning performer and creator says, “This is the highest form of musical theater that I've ever experienced.”]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-24/terence-blanchard-the-met-s-first-black-composer-on-fire-shut-up-in-my-bones</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description> Terrence Blanchard performs in the Newport Jazz Festival 2013 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tech Companies That Made #BlackLivesMatter Pledges Have Fewer Black Employees]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[But the industry’s financial commitments, totaling $4.6 billion, could have an impact.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-17/blm-pledges-came-from-companies-with-fewer-black-employees</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Huet]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 11:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Demonstrators deploy a Black Lives Matter banner near the White House during a demonstration in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2020.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Two Women Fixing the Pipeline for Black Female Economists]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The co-founders of the Sadie Collective talk about their mission and bringing racial justice to the Fed. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-20/the-two-women-fixing-the-pipeline-for-black-female-economists</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Black Workers Find Little Opportunity in Growing Video Game Industry]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[‘Five in Five’ effort seeks to increase employment to 5% in five years.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-14/call-of-duty-video-game-industry-seeks-black-workers-after-george-floyd-killing</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 10:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Laura Teclemariam, a senior animation product executive at Netflix Inc. who will serve as board chairwoman of the BIG Foundation, at the Netflix offices in Los Gatos, California, on March 7, 2021.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Misty Copeland on How Race Informs Her Art, and Her Activism]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The dancer sits down for a Q&A as part of Bloomberg’s new “Black in Focus” series. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-13/misty-copeland-on-how-race-informs-her-art-and-her-activism</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Colin Kaepernick, the QB Who Became a Civil Rights Trailblazer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Kaepernick announced two major projects this summer, a six-part Netflix series about his high school years and a first-look deal with Walt Disney Co., which includes an ESPN docuseries chronicling the past five years.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/colin-kaepernick-civil-rights-trailblazer-supporter-of-blm-bloomberg-50-2020</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rap Star, Media Mogul and Civil Rights Icon Bank on Fintech Change]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The three founders describe why they’re starting a new type of banking platform.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-24/rap-star-media-mogul-and-civil-rights-icon-bank-on-fintech-change</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Black-Owned Businesses Hope the Summer Boom Doesn’t Fade]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The holiday season will show whether BLM-inspired enthusiasm spurs a permanent change in shopping habits.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/black-owned-business-hope-the-summer-boom-continues-over-the-holidays</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordyn Holman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘A Blessing’ Aims to Be More Than ‘Lean In’ for Black Women]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The earlier book challenged women to speak up and be heard. This one recommends teaming up.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/-a-blessing-aims-to-be-more-than-lean-in-for-black-women</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster Publisher Talks Race, Trump and the Pandemic]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dana Canedy, the first Black person to head the vaunted publishing house, sits down for a Q&A.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-13/simon-schuster-publisher-talks-race-trump-and-the-pandemic</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:00:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bain Capital's Greg Shell Is Investing to Help Improve the World]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Double Impact fund's diverse team is trying to harness capital markets to bring about a better society.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/bain-capital-s-greg-shell-is-investing-to-help-improve-the-world</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Lewis’s Example Spurred Black Activists to Seek Office]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi Nix]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>US President Barack Obama walks alongside Amelia Boynton Robinson (R), one of the original marchers, the Reverend Al Sharpton (2nd R), First Lady Michelle Obama (L), and US Representative John Lewis (2nd-L), Democrat of Georgia, and also one of the original marchers, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. The event commemorates Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers attempting to walk to the Alabama capital of Montgomery to end voting discrimination against African Americans, clashed with police on the bridge. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Outside Stonehenge, a Walker’s Paradise—With Falcons, Too]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Small towns in Southwest England will offer the most charming of ways to stretch ones legs after stay-at-home orders lift.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/outside-stonehenge-an-english-walking-paradise-with-falconry</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 05:01:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Learning to Love Pre-Owned Clothing Even When There’s Been Sweat]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Consignment websites offer bargains if buyers can overcome ick factor.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lehman Collapse Inspired a Banker to Find a Purpose for Wealth]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Angela Mwanza, co-founder of UBS’s Evergreen Wealth Management, says she now defines success as transferring capital and a mission from one generation to the next. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Toulon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:00:52 GMT</pubDate>
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