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• Getting sober and drawing rabbits

  23-01-2023 22:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Since I was a little kid, I’ve been drawing rabbits,” said Whitney Wasson. The Chicago-based comics artist and comedian said that rabbits are cute and easy to draw, which were two ideal qualities for their early childhood doodles. “[The drawing] could be terrible, but as long as you [make] long rabbit ears it reads as […]
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• Black Students Are Still Experiencing Pandemic Trauma

  23-01-2023 21:36
  Black parents were the most likely to report their K-12-aged children’s mental well-being has not improved from the negative toll the pandemic took. Dr. Terence Fitzgerald discusses why this is and potential solutions.
   by Maya Pottiger 
  People aren’t rubber bands.
  Even as kids attend school in-person full-time again and life slowly returns to normal, they aren’t going to snap back to who they were and how they felt before the COVID-19 pandemic. It had a deep and
  
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• Robert McKay (write-in)

  23-01-2023 21:02 via chicagoreader.com
  Candidate for police district council, Fifth District
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• Oddisee does what he wants on the polished new album To What End

  23-01-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Oddisee is aging like fine wine, becoming a producer-rapper’s producer-rapper. Two decades into his career, the native of Prince George’s County, Maryland, still doesn’t care about mainstream popularity—as long as he can feed his family off his music, fame isn’t important. This doesn’t mean mainstream accolades aren’t apropos; his big music is innately hip-hop, but […]
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• HBCUs Carry the Weight of History

  23-01-2023 16:45
  HBCUs are having a moment right now. Parents and educators should consider the whole story as a new generation prepares to go off to college.  
  by Fedrick C. Ingram 
  In the city of Hampton, Virginia, there is an oak tree that has stood for over 200 years.
  It is known as Emancipation Oak. 
  It gained its name because in 1863, that tree was the site where many enslaved people heard the reading of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — a reading that
  
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• Online racial harassment leads to lower academic confidence for Black and Hispanic students

  23-01-2023 14:28
  
  Students of color become less confident in their academic abilities when they encounter racially demeaning content online. ljubaphoto / Getty Images
  by Alvin Thomas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
  The big idea
  Online racial discrimination or harassment has a negative effect on the academic and emotional well-being of students of color. That is the key finding from a study I published recently in the Journal of Youth and Adolesc
  
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• Squirrel Flower braces herself for love’s unbridled force on new single “Your Love”

  23-01-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ella Williams, the Massachusetts-born musician who makes music as Squirrel Flower, released her first EP, Early Winter Songs From Middle America, while attending Grinnell College in 2015, and she’s been steadily touring ever since. After graduation, she moved back to Boston to make her way in the DIY scene, and she soon turned heads with […]
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• Portia Mittons : A Cannabis Pioneer

  23-01-2023 00:27
  
  Photo Credit : Amber Marie Green
  She is black history as she is the first African American to be awarded an adult use retail cannabis license in the State of Oregon as well as the 2nd black woman to hold an adult use cannabis retail license in the country only after Wanda James.
   
  Portia Mittons began her professional career as a civil engineer apprentice with Sargent & Lundy shortly upon graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2004. She quickly became disencha
  
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