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• Young Musicians Collaborate with Chicago Bulls for Black History Month

  06-02-2023 23:39
  
  Musicians from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras were featured in a newly-released video for the Chicago Bulls. Seven young musicians from CYSO, ranging from 9th-12th grade, joined musicians from Chicago’s Musical Arts Institute and singers from Uniting Voices Chicago. The group performed a spirited version of James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the “Black National Anthem,” on the Bulls court. The performance was edited together with f
  
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• Treasurer Frerichs Invites Nonprofits to Apply for $200,000 in Grants Available Through Charitable Trust Program

  06-02-2023 23:27
  
  Application Period Open Through March 31
   
  SPRINGFIELD – Small nonprofits that provide people with food or workforce and economic development assistance are encouraged to apply for funding through the Charitable Trust Stabilization Program, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs said today. Grant applications will be accepted through March 31.
  “The Charitable Trust program offers an excellent opportunity for small non-profit organizations to have an even greater imp
  
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• RICJ Racial Justice Writers’ Room Launches

  06-02-2023 22:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Racial Justice Writers’ Room is part of RICJ’s Racial Justice Reporting Hub and Writers’ Room is funded by the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation. DePaul University’s Center for Communication Engagement is donating resources for the group’s in-person meetings. The project was launched under former Chicago Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins, who will be among eight […]
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• Addressing Environmental Justice Through Federal Leadership, Local Implementation and Community Activism

  06-02-2023 19:35
  
  For far too long, low-income communities and communities of color across the United States have faced the disproportionate burdens of environmental injustice and crumbling infrastructure which have been further intensified because of climate change.
  I was recently appointed to serve on the Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA established the LGAC to incorporate local voices and diverse representation into national solutions for
  
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• Chicago Defender Movie Review of Surface and Beast

  06-02-2023 19:29
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• Mayor Lightfoot Makes Case For Second Term

  06-02-2023 17:01
  
  Photo Credit: Amber Marie Green
   
  Lightfoot is facing stiff competition with eight challengers – including six Black candidates – looking to unseat her after one full term in office on Election Day 2023 in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 28.
  “Why me as opposed to anyone else who is running? I’ll tell you why. Number one there’s no other Black candidate that has a shot of even getting into the runoff and is never going to see the inside of City Hall other than being in
  
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• Honoring The Life and Legacy of Mary L. Grey

  06-02-2023 16:23
  
  Mary L. Grey
  Loving wife of Horace Noel Grey, Sr. (dec.).  Loving mother of Jackie (Eric), Janet (Willie), and Faye. Great matriarch and sister to 8 siblings, Archbishop Steven G. Thompson (Merlean), Lorraine Davis-Jones, Ernestine White, Florence Ford, Herbert Thompson (dec.), Ora Lee Riley-Thompson (dec.), and Uriah Thompson, Jr. (dec.). Adored grandmother of 31.On January 27, 2023 we lost an amazing woman, gentle, loving and smart!  She enjoyed 89 years and left a Legacy of Love. W
  
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• NFL, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School Host Private Screening Honoring Legendary Black Quarterback

  06-02-2023 16:07
  Phoenix, Arizona – In recognition of Black History Month, the National Football League has partnered with the Sidney Poitier New American Film School to host a private screening detailing the life and legacy of Jimmy Raye, who in 1966 became the first Black starting quarterback at Michigan State University. The Indelible Legacy of Jimmy Raye tells how one man’s story broke color barriers and changed football forever.
  The screening will take place during Super Bowl LVII week on Wednes
  
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• Roscoe Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic artwork

  06-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bells, recorders, and watering cans craft a sound environment alongside more conventional instruments (trombone, saxophones, trumpet) on the title track of Roscoe Mitchell’s debut LP, Sound. The first record gathering together an iteration of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), Sound, and especially “Sound,” was crafted, according to Mitchell, “[for] musicians to […]
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• How Chicago fell for crypto

  06-02-2023 13:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While lawmakers cozied up to cryptocurrency firms, crypto fraudsters fleeced Illinois residents.
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