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• The Vallas surge

  17-02-2023 17:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Back in our country’s less enlightened days that have, of course, long since passed (ha, ha, ha), there was a concept in boxing called the “great white hope.” That was a white boxer (any white boxer) who was viewed as the defender of the race’s wounded pride and honor when he fought a Black boxer […]
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• Combating racial bias when women are missing

  17-02-2023 15:56
  
  TONEE TURNER WAS REPORTED MISSING IN 2019. SHE HAS YET TO BE LOCATED.
  When Black women go missing, why doesn’t the media care as much?
  by Zach Petroff, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  It has been more than 1,140 days since Tonee Turner was last seen. 
  On a Monday, around 6 p.m., Turner left the Dobra Tea shop in Squirrel Hill to catch a bus back to where she lived in Hazelwood. The bus driver reported seeing Turner get off the bus, as she usually did, on Gidding Street. 
  She has not b
  
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• Smooth Chicago bluesman Jimmy Burns celebrates 80 years

  17-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bluesman Jimmy Burns prefers sensitivity over shouting, and since he moved to Chicago from Mississippi in 1955, several sources outside the blues have shaped his fluid guitar tone—including gospel quartets and arena-rock bands. He turns 80 on February 27, and for the occasion he sat for a Reader interview that digs as far back as […]
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