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• For Derrick Adams, black imagination is the future

  20-06-2017 23:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In his solo show, the New York-based polymath artist uses installation, video, music, and collage to remix the archival holdings of the Stony Island Arts Bank.The first thing you notice in "Future People," Derrick Adams's solo show at the Stony Island Arts Bank, is a wide, two-tier gray platform that sits in the middle of the gallery; it looks like a stage. On top of it are four black bucket seats (outfitted with seat belts) and a table covered by a polished silver globe, turntables, a mixer, an
  
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• Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Dies At 42

  20-06-2017 22:55 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Prodigy, one half of famed Queens rap duo Mobb Deep, has died. Nas wrote an Instagram post confirming the passing the 42-year-old rapper. The news was later confirmed by the group’s publicist in a statement:
  “It is with extreme sadness and disbelief that we confirm the death of our dear friend Albert Johnson, better known to millions of fans as Prodigy of legendary NY rap duo Mobb Deep. Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Vegas after a Mobb Deep performance for complicati
  
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• Pantene’s First Hair Model With Locs Gets Real About Diversity And Inclusion In Beauty

  20-06-2017 22:40 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  Demi Grace is a talented force. The singer (who owns the rights to her music), songwriter (she writes all of her songs), dancer (she’s backed up both Beyoncé AND Solange) and a model (she’s currently starring in the Pantene commercial). This triple quadruple threat is vibrant with a capacity to create that is sure to bring her continued success.
  With her new song, ‘Dream,’ featuring Jay Karnell, that was released on Blav
  
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• Cedric The Entertainer Says Gas Company Poisoned His Family

  20-06-2017 22:04 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Beloved comedian Cedric the Entertainer alleges that a gas company servicing his home in Southern California sickened him and his family after a 2015 gas leak.
  The New York Daily News reports that the lawsuit alleges that his family suffered nosebleeds, vomiting, nausea and vertigo.
  The Porter Ranch gas leak in 2015 lead the Mayor of Los Angeles to declare a State of Emergency at the time.
  Cedric claimed the leak was a result of the SoCal Gas Company’s failure to replace an emergency safet
  
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• Grammy Award Winner Cece Winans’ Fall in Love Tour Stops in Atlanta

  20-06-2017 21:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  ATLANTA, Ga. — Ten-time Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum-selling artist CeCe Winans will follow her recently released number one album “Let Them Fall In Love,” with a national tour. The Fall In Love Tour presented by Medi-Share is Winans’ first solo tour in a decade and will make a stop in Atlanta June 23.
  Winans is the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time and is credited as one of the most accomplished and celebrated women in modern m
  
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• A new book from 826CHI shows how friendships develop through letter writing

  20-06-2017 20:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Eliza Ramirez's eighth-grade students at Emiliano Zapata Academy in Little Village learned that they'd be spending the fall and winter corresponding with a class of tenth graders at Amundsen High School in Ravenswood and that the letters would be collected into a book published by 826CHI, a nonprofit writing center, they were skeptical. What was the point of writing letters, they wondered, in this marvelous age of text messages and Snapchat?…
  
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• Detroit Mother Killed In Front Of 4-Year-Old Daughter, Found By 14-Year-Old Son

  20-06-2017 20:43 via chicagodefender.com
  
  A Detroit mother was shot and killed in front of one of her children and died in the arms of another on Father’s Day.
  Police are still searching for the suspect.
  Fox-2 Detroit reports that 42-year-old Latrese Morris Dorsey had just recently moved into a new home with her three children and was getting out of a relationship with a man who could not let go.
  Dorsey’s sister Megan Morris says that Dorsey’s ex-boyfriend, Earl Maxwell, is responsible for the murder.
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• Century-straddling Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect play new music with Baroque instruments and electronics

  20-06-2017 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In April, as part of the Frequency Series I book at Constellation, I had the pleasure of presenting the Chicago debut of Nordic Affect, a remarkable quartet from Iceland who perform contemporary music on Baroque instruments—though admittedly you're only likely to notice anything unusual about the instrumentation when Gudrun Óskarsdóttir plays harpsichord. Nordic Affect's repertoire consists of all-new work written for the ensemble by other Icelandic composers, many of them w
  
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• Paris Jackson Lands The Cover of ‘Vogue Australia’

  20-06-2017 18:48 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Source: Araya Diaz / GettyParis Jackson has been steadily making her way into the circle of Young Hollywood elite and now the only daughter of the late Michael Jackson is gracing the cover of Vogue Australia.
  This marks Jackson’s inaugural Vogue debut, but she has been running in many high fashion circles lately, most recently attending the Met Ball back in May.
  E! News reports that the cover was shot by legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier and includes an accompanying in-depth inte
  
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• Democrats Hopeful Supreme Court Levels Election Landscape

  20-06-2017 15:20 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Elections could become more competitive, which is great news for Democrats. Republicans, who control most state legislatures, have systematically drawn electoral district maps to favor GOP candidates. That could change soon.
  The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would hear arguments in Wisconsin’s partisan gerrymandering case.
  Over the years, the high court has ruled on race-based challenges to electoral maps, which seek to suppress the minority vote. The court, however, has l
  
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• Social Media Handles Now Under Scrutiny for Travelers

  20-06-2017 15:19 via chicagodefender.com
  
  In an apparent attempt to proactively screen for potential terrorist and terrorist activity, the federal government including various customs offices and embassies has begun asking travelers to supply details about their social media handles to include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap Chat and more.
  The collection of social media data was first proposed by Homeland Security in the summer of 2016. At least one United States Embassy – the embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados — has confirm
  
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• Nuclear Project Continues to Pose Environmental, Financial Strain for Plant Vogtle Community

  20-06-2017 15:10 via chicagodefender.com
  
  After a contentious negotiation period, protracted by delays and key contractor bankruptcies, Georgia Power Co. has entered agreements with the chief contractor at the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion and its parent company to take over management of the project to build two nuclear reactors at the site.
  A service agreement calling for Georgia Power and affiliate company Southern Nuclear to take over the work is subject to the approval of the board of directors at Westinghouse Electric Co., which
  
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• An Artful Welcome

  20-06-2017 14:59 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Start making memories in ATL before even leaving the airport. Loupe, the innovative art-streaming platform that has taken the number one lifestyle app spot in the Apple Store in 35 countries, now has a presence in the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport arrivals terminal. This summer from June until August travelers will be able to experience a curated collection highlighting artwork from Atlanta natives.
  Loupe’s Airport Art Installation aims to bring a sense of tranq
  
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• Black Billionaire Robert Smith Shares Secret To Success With Young Black Men

  20-06-2017 14:17 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Denver native Robert Smith visited his home town to deliver a commencement address at the University of Denver and gave an interview to KUSA-TV, the local NBC News affiliate.
  Denver native Robert Smith interviewing with @9NEWS ahead of his #Commencement address tonight @UofDenver @AdviceGuruAlan pic.twitter.com/i84TbVZbiH
  — Jon Stone (@JonStoneNews) June 9, 2017Smith, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion according to Forbes, is the second richest African-American—behind Oprah Winfrey&
  
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• Chicago alderman, investors make bid for Sun-Times newspaper

  20-06-2017 14:16 via chicagodefender.com
  
  An investor group headed by a former Chicago alderman has submitted a bid to buy the Chicago Sun-Times.
  The investors led by former Alderman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor, an umbrella group of labor unions, submitted the bid for the Sun-Times and Reader Monday.
  Terms of the offer to Wrapports LLC haven’t been disclosed. Eisendrath says the investor group has raised about $15 million.
  Eisendrath said the newspaper would adhere to its tradition as a voice for the worki
  
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• Postpunk oddballs the Bonemen of Barumba played ‘barbecue music from hell’

  20-06-2017 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who've been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. Older strips are archived here. 
  
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• What to make of Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn's decision to sell out to Wal-Mart?

  20-06-2017 13:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Corporate sellout. That's the epithet social media users have adopted to describe Bonobos in the wake of its recent sale to Walmart for $310 million, and why not? The NYC-based menswear brand, founded by Chicago native Andy Dunn in 2007, built a niche as a cool, millennial-friendly online company.…
  
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• Chicago hit 300 homicides over Father's Day weekend, and other news

  20-06-2017 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Welcome to the Reader's morning briefing for Tuesday, June 20, 2017.…
  
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• Metallica fought fire with fire at Soldier Field

  20-06-2017 01:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Metallica sometimes still earn the title of greatest thrash band on earth, because they can play like more than the sum of their parts: James Hetfield, the riff master; Kirk Hammett, the shredder supreme; new(ish) guy Robert Trujillo, the bringer of monstrous low end; and Lars Ulrich, who every once in a while decides to not drum totally horribly. The four horsemen hit Solider Field last night in support of the 2016 album Hardwired . . .…
  
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