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• On a roll

  29-03-2023 19:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I’m just skating around town, just basically trying to get my miles in. My goal is up to 14 miles. I think I’m at about 8 right now. So I’m going to take another lap around the city,” said Alex Scott, 26, on a Monday in the early afternoon.  “It takes me a couple of […]
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• Lyric Opera’s Proximity

  29-03-2023 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Spectacle? It’s long been the grand opera’s calling card. But never quite like this. Lyric Opera’s world premiere production of Proximity—closer to Immersive Van Gogh or Art on the Mart than to Aida—opened at the opera house last week. Directed and “mixed” by Yuval Sharon (creator of the parking garage Wagner, Twilight: Gods, which he […]
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• We Aren’t Worrying Enough About Declining Student Literacy

  29-03-2023 18:48
  
  Following the pandemic, reading proficiency declined to levels not seen since 2005. But, depending on which students you looked at, this problem has existed for a while. 
  by Maya Pottiger Doomscrolling through bad news has become something of a national pastime — and it’s easy to tune it all out or wonder if things really are as bad as they seem.
  But when it comes to student literacy, especially in the wake of last year’s dramatic National Assessment of Educ
  
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• Whitney Johnson of Matchess presents an ambitious durational work at Bond Chapel

  29-03-2023 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than 15 years, the music of violist, keyboardist, and singer Whitney Johnson has been a powerful through line connecting various local underground scenes. Since 2009 she’s been developing the outstanding solo project Matchess; she’s been a member of a dizzying number of groups, including the 1900s, Verma, and Circuit des Yeux; and she’s […]
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• Real Times Media Names Tacuma Roeback ‘Chicago Defender’ Managing Editor

  29-03-2023 14:43
  
  Tacuma R. Roeback recently joined Real Times Media, Inc., as managing editor of its hallmark Chicago Defender news publication. The acclaimed writer and editor originally from Brooklyn, New York, has made major contributions to the Black Press and media outlets around the nation. He is an award-winning journalist published by the industry’s most prestigious news organizations and is lauded by industry peers for his profound and compelling news reporting.
   
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• The Carr Report: ‘When she needs you’ versus ‘When she needs you not’

  29-03-2023 14:00
  
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  I’ve witnessed firsthand the struggle of single women being the woman and the man of the house. I’ve witnessed the stress women endured and continue to endure multitasking, trying to be everything to everybody. It’s been my observation that women are strong and can shoulder a lot. 
  Imagine this, it was less than 100 years ago when women were given the right to vote. It was during World War I which took place between 1914-1918 when employers started hiring wome
  
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• Black culture as a force for change

  29-03-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Things Well Worth Waiting For” is a small-scale, deeply comprehensive exhibition that transports you to a different time where women wore flamboyant dresses, men drove classic cars, segregation prevailed, and the power of soul music was palpable. Photojournalist and activist Kwame Brathwaite was there, documenting it all—in words and in photographs.  Occupying two galleries at […]
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