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• Gossip Wolf: Chicago Afro-soul singer Nola Adé releases her long-awaited second EP, Royal

  14-03-2023 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For the better part of a decade, Chicago native Nola Adé has released standout music, including her 2016 debut EP, The Love Dance, and a smattering of well-received singles on which she wrapped her luxurious voice around popping, radio-ready Afro-soul production. (Gossip Wolf remains especially partial to her track “Make Move,” a booming love song […]
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• Cross the barbecue bridge from Texas to Korea with Knox Ave Barbecue at the next Monday Night Foodball

  14-03-2023 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joe Yim was a math teacher and football coach before he ran away to study central-Texas barbecue on hallowed ground. He has lessons to offer: “Watching five smokers with 100 briskets [is] like running a classroom,” he says. “You gotta put each one in the right place and know what their needs are.” Over two […]
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• Bad girls, brigadiers, and bullfights

  14-03-2023 16:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Lyric Opera was packed to the rafters with patrons twinkling with sequins for opening night of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, with libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in Paris to moral scandal in 1875, the tragic opera, based on an 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée, about a bohémienne and her fatal seduction of […]
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• The Carr Report: Protecting your most important asset!

  14-03-2023 13:35
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  What is your number one asset? (A) Home, (B) Car, (C) Another valuable possession (D) None of the above.  The answer may surprise you. Drumroll…..If you guessed (D) None of the above, you guessed right.  Your most valuable asset is your ability to earn an income.  In order to provide food, clothing, shelter, transportation and other necessities and luxuries for you and your family, you need an income to pay for it. By the way, your income is your most powerful
  
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• Leading American medical journal continues to omit Black research, reinforcing a legacy of racism in medical knowledge

  14-03-2023 13:00
  
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  by Cherice Escobar Jones, Northeastern University; Gwendolynne Reid, Emory University, and Mya Poe, Northeastern University
  The leading U.S. medical journal, read regularly by doctors of all specialties, systematically ignores an equally reputable and rigorous body of medical research that focuses on Black Americans’ health.
  The American Medical Association created a segregated “whites only&r
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Has African American Studies strayed off course?

  14-03-2023 13:00
  
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  Last year, Kanye West was embroiled in controversy over statements deemed antisemitic. Then he was written off as another anti-intellectual celebrity. Still and all, West made his most controversial remarks on the Lex Fridman podcast. It’s understandable why no one paid those remarks any attention, but they’re repeated here for argument’s sake.
  West told Fridman, “We don’t need to teach history. We don’t need to teach anything that is subjective.
  
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• Kora master Sona Jobarteh channels traditional Gambian music through a modern mindset

  14-03-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sona Jobarteh was born in London to a family of Gambian griots, musicians and storytellers who maintain the oral tradition that keeps the histories of their people alive. Jobarteh’s family is one of five in West Africa associated with the kora, an instrument that combines features of a harp and a lute, with a large […]
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