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• WTH? NYU Serves Kool-Aid And Watermelon For Black History Month

  23-02-2018 18:01 via chicagodefender.com
  New York University (NYU) is reportedly one of the most overpriced schools in the country. Back in 2011, The Village Voice alleged NYU created more student debt than any other American university. Considering the millions NYU sucks dry from students, you would think the so-called liberal university would get one thing right during Black History Month: Don’t create a “Black” menu with Kool-Aid and watermelon. Yes, this happened.
  According to the New York Times, “On Tu
  
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• Navigating FAFSA Delays: Students Talk Scholarships, Embrace Resilience

  08-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  For years, students nationwide have relied on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as a gateway to their educational dreams. 
  Whether submitted physically or online, this vital form stands as a beacon of hope for current and prospective college students, opening doors to essential financial assistance. FAFSA isn’t just a form; it’s a lifeline, offering avenues to affordable or even free college education through scholarships, grants and student lo
  
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• Mothering the Movement connects past and future

  08-05-2024 15:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the first scene of Mothering the Movement, seven members of Free Street Theater’s youth ensemble riff on what mothers mean to them. On opening night, it was clear that some had their own mothers in the audience, giving special meaning to their tributes. It’s a touching, personal way to begin a play about Hazel […]
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• Prelude to a Kiss highlights old souls in a fresh package

  08-05-2024 15:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s amazing that this play about old souls moves along at such a brisk pace.  Theatre Above the Law’s new production of Craig Lucas’s romantic comedy/drama Prelude to a Kiss is intentionally staged with no props or scenery. Director Tony Lawry’s notes say that’s to let the audience “dine on the sustenance inside this story.” […]
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• Judgment Day is amusing but slight

  08-05-2024 15:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie, if you believe it.” Jason Alexander doesn’t repeat this famous George Costanza line from Seinfeld in Rob Ulin’s morality comedy, Judgment Day, now in a world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. But he may as well. So much else in this play (directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel), which […]
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• Panther in the Sky tackles gun violence

  08-05-2024 15:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and CIRCA-Pintig’s collaborative piece, Panther in the Sky, written by Lani T. Montreal and directed by Mignon McPherson Stewart, tackles difficult subject matter. Through its one-hour production, Panther grapples with gun violence, its victims, and the families (specifically the mothers) they leave behind, from the perspective of BIPOC moms and their sons. […]
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• Prospective Student Shot & Killed By Stray Bullet While Visiting HBCU

  08-05-2024 15:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A prospective student was shot and killed by a stray bullet at Delaware State University
  Camay Mitchell De Silva, 18, was fatally shot on April 21 while staying with a friend who attended Delaware State University, per PEOPLE. According to a GoFundMe page set up by De Silva’s family, the teen, who had previously attended Morgan State University, was considering enrollment at Delaware State to pursue cybersecurity.
  Gunshots rang out at roughly 1:40 a.m. on April 21. Officers
  
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• Black Man Pushed In Lake By Friend, Left Underwater For 10 Minutes: Lawyer

  08-05-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A Louisiana family is seeking answers after their son nearly drowned in Lake D’Arbonne, KSLA reports.
  Christopher “Chris” Gilbert was at a lakefront restaurant in Farmerville with a group of friends when the near-death experience occurred.
  Gilbert’s family and their lawyer, Claudia Payne, claim he was pushed into the lake and left underwater for nearly 10 minutes.
  Payne said the friend group had initially told police and Gilbert’s mom that he had fal
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for May 8, 2024

  08-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• ‘Straight Words’: 4 Differences Between Trump and Cousin Ray Ray in Court

  08-05-2024 13:54 via chicagodefender.com
  By Naba’a Muhammad, Contributing Columnist
  The judge in the Trump hush-money case in New York, which revolves around charges the GOP boss paid off a porn star to keep an affair quiet and lied about it to flim-flam voters, has gotten a ton of media coverage. Judge Juan M. Merchan told the presidential hopeful that “…violations of a gag order barring Trump from inflammatory out-of-court comments about witnesses, jurors, and others closely connected to the case could result in ja
  
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• Bally’s Chicago Outpaces the Market for the Month of April

  08-05-2024 13:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Bally’s Chicago Casino outpaced the market for the month of April with gross gaming revenue of $12.2M. Additionally, admissions were strong, and rewards enrollment continued to increase during this period. Exciting new amenities are also on the horizon for Bally’s Chicago, such as valet parking operated by Bally’s staff starting this summer, expanded restaurant seating at Kitchen 888, and the upcoming introduction of a new VIP Lounge on the third floor of the Medinah Temple.
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• Lawrence Agyei pays homage with ‘DRILL’

  07-05-2024 21:01 via chicagoreader.com
  When photographer Lawrence Agyei saw the South Shore Drill Team for the first time over a decade ago, he was enamored by the entire group—but knew he wasn’t yet ready to capture their electrifying energy. It was early in his photography career and capturing the team and what it represents for Chicago would be a […]
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• CalicoLoco finally sound as big as their shows on their debut album

  07-05-2024 20:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On May 10, CalicoLoco’s debut album, I Love Myself, finally makes its way from their downloads folder into the world. Over the past two months, these indie rockers have released three singles in anticipation of the album, dropping hints about the territory they’ll be covering—poppy emo grounded in heavy guitar tones.  Dani Robles and Zeke […]
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• Chicago mayor, alders propose missing women task force as CPD continues to sideline families

  07-05-2024 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, in conjunction with a group of majority Black women alders, is calling for the creation of the Mayor’s Task Force on Missing Women. A resolution, filed with the City Council in late April, recognizes the disproportionate impact the issue of missing persons has had on Black women in Chicago. The resolution […]
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• Goodman Theatre’s English reminds us that we’re more than our words

  07-05-2024 17:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hamid Dehghani remembers when he took the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). “After the exam, I just walked for miles,” the Iranian director says. “I felt so light, like I lost 20 pounds. I was so happy.”  English, now in a local premiere at the Goodman Theatre (in a coproduction with Minneapolis’s […]
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• Charlie Schmidt keeps John Fahey’s flame burning

  07-05-2024 17:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Few Chicagoans know that a living guitar legend is hidden away in the wilds of Skokie. Charlie Schmidt isn’t a blues firebrand or a metal shredder, but everyone who loves fingerstyle guitar should know his name.  Schmidt was a friend and sometime student of the late John Fahey, pioneer of the “American primitive” steel-string acoustic […]
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• United Black Male Educators Hosted ‘Educate, Empower, Elevate’ Conference

  07-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  CPS students in attendance at the United Black Male Educators’ “Educate, Empower, Elevate” student empowerment conference (Credit: Chicago Public Schools).
  On Monday, the United Black Male Educators of Chicago Public Schools hosted its inaugural “Educate, Empower, Elevate” student empowerment conference at Olive Harvey Community College. This landmark event aims to bolster outcomes among Black male students in grades 7-12 from across the District and the city.
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• Fani Willis Refuses To Testify Before Republican-Led Senate Committee Over Misconduct Claims

  07-05-2024 15:36 via chicagodefender.com
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will not cooperate with Georgia’s Republican-led special Senate committee. On May 6, Willis revealed that she will not testify before the committee which is investigating her for possible misconduct. 
  Willis appeared at the historic Big Bethel AME Church on Auburn Ave where she received endorsement by several religious leaders who are supporting her for re-election. During a press conference held outside of the church, Willis revealed that s
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: When the Black left treats you like an n-word in the street

  07-05-2024 15:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  In 2002, the Arkansas Hall of Fame inducted former Democratic President Bill Clinton as an honorary member. The hall acknowledged Clinton as the first non-Black individual.
  Toni Morrison, a famous novelist, may have given Clinton an extra stamp of approval with a prior honorary title. Morrison referred to Clinton as the country’s “first Black president” in The New Yorker in 1998.
  Morrison claimed that she first heard the idea in chats among Black men during the
  
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• South Side Newsroom Wins Two Pulitzers For ‘You Didn’t See Nothin’ Podcast And ‘Missing In Chicago’ Investigation

  07-05-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  South Side nonprofit newsroom Invisible Institute was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for Audio Reporting and Local Reporting. Today’s announcement follows the 12-person newsroom’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The team was a finalist for Audio Reporting for our Somebody podcast the same year. The central Invisible Institute reporters of both stories, Yohance Lacour and trina reynolds-tyler, began their work towards these investigations at the organization more than si
  
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• ‘Braiding Histories’ combines the past, present, and future

  07-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago is filled with architecture and design, from the iconic skyline to the art installations of the CTA. Victoria Martinez incorporates these elements and influences in her solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, “Braiding Histories,” part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago initiative, which supports events highlighting the city’s creative […]
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• ShotSpotter’s reverberations

  07-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In June 2022, the Illinois State Police inked a $362,000 contract with ShotSpotter. The agency planned to pilot the controversial gunshot detection system along eight miles of the Dan Ryan Expressway, beginning at Canalport, just north of Cermak, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and stretching south.  The prior year had been a particularly violent one—for the […]
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• “Missing in Chicago” wins the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting

  06-05-2024 23:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On May 6,  the Pulitzer Prize board announced the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners in various categories of journalism and reporting.  Reporters Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute and Sarah Conway of City Bureau, who penned the story “What happens when your loved one goes missing?”, were awarded with the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.  The […]
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• Review: The Idea of You

  06-05-2024 23:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As I settled in to watch the third installment of post-2020 B-tier rom-coms starring Anne Hathaway, The Idea of You (following She Came to Me and Locked Down), a nagging sense of familiarity began to stir within me. This story is tethered to August Moon, a boy band only microscopically dissimilar from One Direction. Hayes […]
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• PUBLIC NOTICE: To Patrons of Commonwealth Edison Company

  06-05-2024 15:19 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• What College Protests Say About America

  06-05-2024 15:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  This article was originally published on Word In Black.By Keith Boykin
  “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.
  ​​The past two weeks of campus protests have exposed the hypocrisy of Republicans who claim to stand for “law and order” and free speech.
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• Ole Miss Israeli-Palestinian Protests Turns Horribly Racist – Video

  06-05-2024 14:46 via chicagodefender.com
  University of Mississippi Chancellor Chancellor Glen Boyce, has promised to launch a vigorous investigation into the behavior of students during a pro-Palestine demonstration on campus.
  During the protest at Ole Miss, a Black woman could be seen suffering vitriolic verbal attacks from White college students who mockingly called her “Lizzo” and “fat a–” and chanted lock her up urging police officers on the scene to arrest the peaceful counter protestor. As she approa
  
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• Youth Apprenticeship Week Spotlights Opportunities

  06-05-2024 14:45 via chicagodefender.com
  
  (NewsUSA) – Youth Apprenticeship Week, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Labor, features a range of events and speakers at venues across the United States to showcase the many benefits of Registered Apprenticeship programs for youth and young adults ages 16-24.
  The nationwide initiative takes place from May 5 – 11, 2024, and includes more than 300 events and over 70 proclamations intended to celebrate and educate the public about Registered Apprenticeships. Current apprentices
  
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• Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn examines the limits of faith

  06-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the Christian high school I attended—which was affiliated with a local church of the “health and wealth gospel” flavor—plenty of people took literally the Bible verse that reads, “By his stripes, we are healed.” If you prayed hard enough, the thinking went, God would heal you of physical ailments. If you weren’t healed, you […]
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• COMMENTARY: As Haiti’s Crisis Lingers, Urgent Calls for Action Ignored

  06-05-2024 02:48 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  By Ashleigh Fields 
  “It is the destiny of the Haitian people to suffer.” 
  Words once spoken by former leader Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier find themselves perpetually re-enforced by the world. 
  After successfully overturning slavery through a massive revolt in 1803, global entities turned their back on a resilient and self-determined nation plagued with extreme violence and political impropriety.
  Gangs have overtaken
  
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