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• Black History Month: Chicago Defender Archives

  01-02-2023 23:37
  
  From 1942-45, Lena Horne frequently entertained American soldiers in camps along the West Coast and throughout the South. She also appeared on Armed Forces Radio Service programs such as Jubilee, G.I. Journal, and Command Performances. However, in January 1945, Horne quit the USO tour after officers at a camp in Little Rock, Arkansas, allowed Nazi war prisoners to see her performance while denying African-American soldiers the same privilege.
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• Five Lessons I’ve Learned From Black Women In Leadership

  01-02-2023 23:13
  
  As a millennial black woman in a senior-level management position, I have always been enamored by black women who show up and own their spaces in any industry. There is such an inspiring feeling to step into a room and know that another black woman has been holding it down and waiting for your arrival. Don’t get it twisted, the responsibility is not immediately given because you are a black woman. These women who have paved the way know that it takes more than cute pumps to assume the posi
  
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• This Week In Black History February 1 – 7, 2023

  01-02-2023 22:00
  
   
  JANET JACKSON WARDROBE MALFUNCTION
  February 1
  1902—Langston Hughes, one of Black America’s greatest poets, is born in Joplin, Miss. He came to fame during the 1920s period of African American cultural expression known as the Harlem Renaissance.Before his death in 1967, he wrote 15 collections of poetry, two autobiographies and several children’s books. Hughes can best be described as “dignified, but militant.” He captured the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance
  
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• Black History Month: ‘Atlanta Daily World’ Salutes African American Achievements Across the Nation

  01-02-2023 19:56
  
  The first Negro History Week was celebrated in 1926. Founded by Black historian Carter G. Woodson, the “week” became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson said he would welcome the day when a separate Black history celebration was no longer necessary because his ultimate goal was a true history “devoid of national bias, race hate and religious prejudice.”
  That didn’t happen. But every year at the beginning of our nation’s month-long annual celebration of m
  
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• Talking music and manifestation with JaefKae

  01-02-2023 19:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I met Jalen Kobayashi in 2017 through Young Chicago Authors’ Louder Than a Bomb poetry festival, where for years we were on separate teams, expressing ourselves through spoken word and sometimes even competing against each other. We’ve since become close friends, connecting through our gifts with the pen and our shared passion for Black liberation. […]
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• Tehran tête-à-tête

  01-02-2023 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, out of anger that he wouldn’t produce her play/manifesto Up Your Ass. Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, out of anger at the senator and presidential candidate’s support of military aid for Israel. In Jean Stein’s 1982 oral history of Warhol’s Factory […]
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• Lightfoot looks back

  01-02-2023 16:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ahead of the February 28 election, the mayor talks to the Reader about the past four years.
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• New publisher and CEO hired for Chicago Reader

  01-02-2023 14:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  RICJ’s current chairperson Eileen Rhodes, has been re-elected, along with secretary Kim L. Hunt. New board member Reese Marcusson has been elected treasurer. Returning at-large board members are Alison Cuddy, Vanessa Fernandez, and Robert Reiter. New at-large members are Daniel Dever, Matt Doubleday, Torrence Gardner, and Christina Crawford Steed. Officers serve for one year while at-large members serve in staggered two-year terms.
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• Brandon Johnson supports safe consumption sites

  01-02-2023 14:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  His position is nuanced, and it’s informed by family experience
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• The Carr Report: Can you call it ‘rapid refund’ when it’s 365 days late?

  01-02-2023 14:00
  
  by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  Tax time is upon us. This is the time when Uncle Sam mandates that we reconcile taxes that were collected throughout the year by way of payroll withholdings and estimated payments to see what’s rightfully due to the IRS. This year individuals have until April 18 to get their tax return prepared and their tax liability paid or suffer the consequences of penalties, interest and/or the wrath of the IRS.
  Many people are eagerly anticipating the largest
  
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• Stella Kola assembles top-shelf New England psych-folk artists on their debut album

  01-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I heard about this new New England psych project, I wondered if the name “Stella Kola” referred to a solo artist, a duo, or a band—or possibly alluded to a soft drink. It turns out that it’s a little from column A and a little from column B. Stella Kola is the collaboration of […]
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• Mr. Sonny Knows 2/1/2023

  01-02-2023 13:00
  
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• An ex-cop is suing UIC Law School for discrimination

  01-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of the defendants’ attorneys says he’s using this lawsuit to silence and intimidate students and decision makers in higher education
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• ABC7 CHICAGO CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH NEWS, VIGNETTES AND ‘OUR CHICAGO: SPIRIT AND PERSEVERANCE’

  01-02-2023 12:59
  
  South Side Chicagoan, Edward Vaughn, aka Rockstar EV, studied rocket science in college and now hopes to become a rock star. Editor/photographer Jordan Arseneau captures his remarkable talent for ABC 7’s Black History Month special, OUR CHICAGO: SPIRIT AND PERSERVERANCE.
   
  ABC 7 CHICAGO celebrates Black History Month with vignettes, a series of news stories and a half-hour special “OUR CHICAGO: SPIRIT AND PERSEVERANCE.”
  Hosted by ABC 7’s Cheryl Burton and Hosea Sande
  
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