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• Dearborn Realtist Board: 2023 Installation Gala & Awards Ceremony

  21-03-2023 21:00
  
  The Dearborn Realtist Board has been fighting for “Democracy In Housing”since 1941. The Dearborn Realtist Board is the oldest African American Real Estate TradeAssociation in the country. Predating the National organization, which is called the NationalAssociation of Real Estate Brokers. Today, known as, The Premier Network of Black RealEstate Professionals, the local Chicago Chapter of NAREB.
  The 82nd Annual Installation Gala: Building Bridges That Last will be held on March 30, 202
  
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• America’s True Life – A Path Forward From Here

  21-03-2023 19:40
  
  Ennis Leon Jacobs, Jr.
  The most advanced industrial democracy on the planet stands today in deep distress, critical societal divisions, political dysfunction, and severe economic challenges. In a society that champions individual and local states’ rights, average families and most local agencies are in deep despair. This discord appears to have revitalized the fervent seed which burns in soil of America. – racial intolerance and oppression. And that seed has produced disastrous fruit
  
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• Celebrating a decade of critically acclaimed film

  21-03-2023 18:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago film lovers will get the chance to mark off a massive chunk of their movie lists at the tenth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (CCFF).
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• Chicago’s Djunah meld poetry and hard rock to power up Femina Furens

  21-03-2023 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I wish more hard-rock bands played with the fervor and aggression of heavy Chicago two-piece Djunah. The duo’s music blazes with such bracing intensity that I’d half expect a vinyl copy of their 2019 album, Ex Voto, to scorch my fingers. Front woman Donna Diane delivers much of the band’s power, in part because she […]
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• Times of uncertainty

  21-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a chilly late November evening, Ukrainian artist Aliona Solomadina landed in Chicago, leaving behind her flourishing design career, beloved friends, and cozy studio in Kyiv. She was not alone, though. Her mother and 92-year-old grandmother had also fled their war-torn homeland to join her at the residency program in Chicago, to which she had […]
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• With an album-release show at Adler Planetarium, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra plot an intergalactic return to Chicago

  21-03-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra sounds like a tributary of Chicago’s avant-jazz traditions. In 2005, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute of Chicago commissioned the multidisciplinary artist and trumpeter for a concert at Pritzker Pavilion, which inspired him to assemble a supergroup of the city’s bleeding-edge creative musicians. Together, they bundle the cosmic […]
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