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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Aug 2024 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Nathanael Honoré, Stephen Foster, Arsene Frederick Jr., Joy Mvundura, Egwu Nwankpah, Ismail Ibrahim)</author>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Ismail Ibrahim, Tia Toombs, Nathanael Honoré, Michael Taylor, Jazmine Bonner)</author>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Alaysia Bookal, Professor Darin Johnson, Jordan Strudwick, Egwu Nwankpah, Alana Henry, Michael Taylor, Professor Preston Foster)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[We're talking GOP opposition to Democrats' COVID-19 proposals, Pres. Biden weighing a number of gun safety proposals, the U.S. being poised to have 3M vaccine doses available per day by April, and Stephen Miller being set to brief House conservatives about immigration. 
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Antoine Southern, Maiyisha Keita, Professor Fred Cooke, Arriyanna Patton, Michael Taylor, Jerry Ford Jr.)</author>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Blaike Bibbs, Michael Taylor, Kassandra Knoff, Professor Fred Cooke, Egwu Nwankpah, Professor Preston Foster)</author>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Alana Henry, Dabney Brice, Xavier Lynum, Tausha Bryant, Michael Taylor)</author>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Gordon-Andrew Lee Fletcher, David K. Opong-Wadee, Michael Taylor, Dr. Oliver Davis Jr., Jerry Ford Jr., Starr Davis)</author>
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      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Devyn Keith, Tausha Bryant, Dr. Oliver Davis Jr., Reggie Hubbard, Chaquez T. McCall, Michael Taylor)</author>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Professor Allan Lichtman, Michael Taylor)</author>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>michael.taylor@law.bison.howard.edu (Pastor Marlon Reid, Pastor Donavan Washington, Pastor Michael Kelly, Professor Preston Foster, Pastor Amalia Goulbourne, Michael Taylor, Pastor Tina Carriger, Pastor Timothy Harris, Pastor Brian Irby)</author>
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