<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Melanie R. Holmes &#8211; Howard University News Service</title>
	<atom:link href="https://hunewsservice.com/author/melanie-r-holmes/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://hunewsservice.com</link>
	<description>Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:17:34 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg</url>
	<title>Melanie R. Holmes &#8211; Howard University News Service</title>
	<link>https://hunewsservice.com</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
	<item>
		<title>Black HIV/AIDS Initiative Becomes Law</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/black-hiv-aids-initiative-becomes-law/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/black-hiv-aids-initiative-becomes-law/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[With African Americans making up 11 percent of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego, yet constituting 25 percent of new HIV cases reported yearly, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved an initiative to &#8220;establish projects and implement policy with plans to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on the African-American community&#8221; according to BlackNews.com. Known as Assembly Bill 1142, the initiative was introduced by Assemblyman Dymally and sponsored by the California State Conference of the NAACP. Dymally said that AB 1142 &#8220;allows for a concentrated effort to further the study that HIV/AIDS has on the African American]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Talks for Peace in Darfur</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/new-talks-for-peace-in-darfur/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/new-talks-for-peace-in-darfur/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Two million people fleeing their homes and 180,000 deaths later, a new round of peace talks between the Sudanese government officials and rebels are currently underway in the Darfur region, as African Union mediators are calling for an end to killing civilians. Although negotiations have been in progress for more than a year, the government and rebel groups have continued fighting in Sudan&#8217;s western Darfur region. &#8220;The continued senseless killings of innocent civilians &#8230; the attacks on humanitarian workers must stop,&#8221; AU chief mediator Salim Ahmed Salim said in opening the seventh round of talks. According to CNN.com, &#8220;the talks]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Radio One to Launch National Black Talk Radio Network</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/radio-one-to-launch-national-black-talk-radio-network/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/radio-one-to-launch-national-black-talk-radio-network/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Plans to launch the first national talk-radio network geared for a black audience are currently being discussed by Radio One Inc. According to BlackNews.com, Radio One Inc. Chief Executive Alfred C. Liggins III is planning the national talk-radio network in order to &#8220;diversify Radio One from a pure radio company into a catchall for black consumers.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re in the black people business,&#8221; Liggins said. &#8220;We are in the business of aggregating audience for this particular demo and providing content to them.&#8221; Although there is a national down-slow in the radio industry brought about by competition with satellite radio, internet]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Profanity Among College Students</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/profanity-among-college-students/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/profanity-among-college-students/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Heard throughout movies, music and sometimes even on television and radio, profanity, according to some people, is viewed as a means of expressing oneself while others find it offensive. With curse words so prevalent in the vocabulary of today&#8217;s youth, many people debate whether or not it should be tolerated on college campuses. &#160; Many college students feel that using profanity in class or just around campus is more than unnecessary, but rude. &#160; &#8220;I think it&#8217;s disrespectful in a sense, and I think it makes us look really ignorant,&#8221; said Anise Abernathy, a senior biology major at Howard]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>The N-word Will Remain in &#8220;The Boondocks&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/the-n-word-will-remain-in-the-boondocks/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/the-n-word-will-remain-in-the-boondocks/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a columnist for BlackNews.com, recently dictated his disdain for cartoonist Aaron McGruder&#8217;s use of the N-word in episodes of &#8220;Boondocks.&#8221; &#160; &#8220;In a panel discussion at the Summer Television Critics Association tour this past summer, Aaron McGruder-defiantly told the audience that he&#8217;ll use the N-word as much as he pleases in episodes of the series on the Cartoon Network&#8217;s Adult Swim,&#8221; Hutchinson wrote. &#8220;If folks don&#8217;t like it, then they&#8217;ll just have to get over it. After all, everyone uses it.&#8221; &#160; While Hutchinson may not be a fan of McGruder&#8217;s work, many college students make sure]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Educate Prisoners Now</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/educate-prisoners-now/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/educate-prisoners-now/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Most famous for the WB court television hit the &#8220;Judge Mathis Show,&#8221; Judge Greg Mathis is now gaining publicity through his article published on BlackNews.com titled &#8220;Spend Now to Educate Prisoners, Save Later.&#8221; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the article, Mathis argues that prisoners should receive a college education to reduce their likelihood of returning to prison once released. Opponents of Mathis&#8217; opinion feel that prison should be used as a form of punishment, therefore prisoners should not receive free education while law-abiding citizens work to pay for their degrees. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Currently, only 5 percent of inmates in the United States are enrolled in]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lox and P. Diddy Beef Resumes</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/lox-and-p-diddy-beef-resumes/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/lox-and-p-diddy-beef-resumes/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The relinquished beef between Ruff Ryders rap trio, The Lox, and P. Diddy of the Bad Boy Records powerhouse has resumed, resurfacing over the airwaves on Angie Martinez&#8217;s Hot 97, WQHT, radio show in New York City. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;After seemingly making peace at the Jay-Z and Nas truce performance in NYC last month, The Lox members Jadakiss and Styles P pleaded for their publishing and autonomy from Diddy, claiming that he owns half of their collective publishing after releasing their first album from his label in 1998. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;Imagine working for years and years, hard work and somebody that has nothing]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Racist Email to CU Student Leader</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/racist-email-to-cu-student-leader/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/racist-email-to-cu-student-leader/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Mebraht Gebre-Michael, an elected member of the student council at the University of Colorado, is used to receiving less than constructive criticism from her peers. She is not, however, accustomed to being threatened. &#160; In an e-mail sent to her last Tuesday, Nov. 15, Gebre-Michael felt a personally attacked by the words that formed a hate letter. &#160; &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you and all of your black (expletive, racial slur) friends disappear off our campus,&#8221; the letter read in part. &#8220;You will die if you run for student government again.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s basically threatening me as an individual, and African American]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hampton U. Planning Cancer Treatment Center</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/hampton-u-planning-cancer-treatment-center/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBCFALC17]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DomesticViolenceReform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MassIncarcerationReform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MelissaHarrisPerry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SheilaJacksonLee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UJIMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WOC]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/hampton-u-planning-cancer-treatment-center/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Realizing that black women are 33 times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than any other ethnic group and black men are one and a half times more likely to suffer from prostate cancer than white men, Hampton University is planning the construction of a cancer treatment center. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The $189 million, 64,000 square foot Proton Beam Therapy Center will use proton radiation to treat about 2,000 breast, lung, eye and pediatric cancer patients a year with a focus on prostate cancer and is expected to open on the University&#8217;s campus in late 2008. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;According to www.hampton.edu, &#8220;proton beam]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
		<item>
		<title>Courtland Milloy Visits Howard</title>
		<link>https://hunewsservice.com/news/courtland-milloy-visits-howard/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie R. Holmes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/courtland-milloy-visits-howard/</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy&#8217;s claim that Howard University students are more concerned with Homecoming and the fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens and cornbread served on &#8220;Soul Food Thursday&#8221; than political activism did more than infuriate the student body, administrators and alumni- it confused them. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;At a forum at the Howard University John H. Johnson School of Communications Wed. Nov. 9, students probed Milloy to explain his intentions for the article, &#8220;How Bush Visit Became the Siege of Howard U.,&#8221; published Oct. 30. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;According to Dept. of Journalism Chairman Phillip Dixon, the purpose of the forum was]]></description>
		
		
		
			</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
