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• The city in bloom

  24-03-2023 20:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I have a personal tradition each vernal equinox of posting on social media some recorded version of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.” (This year I opted for Sarah Vaughan.) But the truth is, it’s hard to feel hung up when I look over this week’s spring theater and arts preview issue. (Feeling […]
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• Five Black Women Activists You Need To Know

  24-03-2023 16:00
  
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  Despite consistent attempts at erasure, Black women’s political and civic involvement in the United States dates back centuries. Their massive efforts to promote human rights are evident in election data, classrooms, churches, and the workplace.
  Black women have been and continue to be agents of change at the community, state, national, and global levels. Here are five Black women activists who blazed trailers for equity and freedom.
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• Judge Approves $600M Settlement Nearly 9 Years After Flint Water Crisis

  24-03-2023 15:57
  
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  A state judge has given the final stamp of approval on a $600 million settlement over the Flint Water Crisis.
  On Tuesday (March 21), the state Attorney General’s office announced that a Genesee County judge formally approved the settlement nearly nine years after the Flint Water Crisis began, per The Hill.
  It is the biggest civil settlement in Michigan history and includes $600 million from the state, $20 million from the city, $5 million from McLaren Regional Medical C
  
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• Judge Vacates Murder Conviction Of Black Man Who Spent 26 Years In Prison

  24-03-2023 15:56
  
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  A New York man has had his name cleared after spending nearly three decades in prison for a murder he long claimed he didn’t commit.
  According to NY Daily News, Michael Robinson’s 1993 murder conviction was vacated on Wednesday (March 22) with judges declaring that “there existed a reasonable probability that the verdict would have been more favorable to the defendant” had DNA evidence been admitted at trial.
  Robinson, now 56, was convicted of murderin
  
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• Disney’s New Series, Saturdays, Highlights Black Joy and Chicago Skate Culture

  24-03-2023 14:01
  By Portia King
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  From the creative minds of actress and executive producer, Marisa Martin (Black-ish, Little, etc.) and cinema veteran, executive producer and showrunner, Norman Vance, Jr. (Roll Bounce, Beauty Shop, Pride, etc.), the two have teamed up to create Disney’s new series, Saturdays. Based in Chicago, the series takes audiences on a ride into the city’s lively roller skate culture through the p
  
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• Steeped in history

  24-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the most famous lines of his 1855 poem “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman writes, “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” After reading S. L. Wisenberg’s insightful new book, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, it’s clear that she, too, contains […]
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• Joliet band Molder dig death metal right down to its bones

  24-03-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joliet four-piece Molder know what’s awesome about classic death metal—and that includes its deliberately disgusting aesthetics. “I think some of it goes a little overboard and it’s a little silly, but to each their own,” guitarist and vocalist Aaren Pantke told Invisible Oranges last July, when Prosthetic released Molder’s second album, Engrossed in Decay. “It’s […]
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