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• International Voices Project opens The Shroud Maker

  16-03-2023 21:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since founding the International Voices Project in 2010, Patrizia Acerra and her artistic associates have brought playwrights from around the globe to the attention of Chicago audiences. The annual International Voices Project Festival presents staged readings (often in partnership with other cultural institutions and consulates) that introduce writers who are largely unknown in the U.S.  […]
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• It’s never too late to give soul-blues master Bobby Jonz his flowers

  16-03-2023 16:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We Americans don’t seem to want to deal with this pesky pandemic anymore—not to take precautions and certainly not to grieve our country’s losses, which topped one million lives almost a year ago. Even our president, who at first seemed to have our backs, has declared the crisis over. Meanwhile the body count keeps climbing, […]
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• This Week In Black History March 15-21, 2023

  16-03-2023 04:23
  
  VANESSA WILLIAMSMarch 151897—The 55th Congress convened with one Black member remaining in the legislative body—George White of North Carolina. All the Black political progress made during Reconstruction had been snatched away after the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1887. By 1890 states throughout the South had effectively taken away the right of Blacks to vote with schemes ranging from literacy tests to poll taxes to Whites-only primaries. As a result Blacks were forced from elected of
  
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