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• Justin Pearson is Back in the Tennessee House

  12-04-2023 23:16
  
  The second of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee House was reinstated in the same fashion — quickly and unanimously by the governing board in his district. 
  On Wednesday, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners took minutes to reappoint Rep. Justin Pearson to his seat in the Legislature by unanimous vote, nearly a week after his expulsion by the Republican-controlled state House.
  “The message for all the people in Nashville who decided to expel us: You c
  
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• It’s a little out of hand with Milo’s Market at the next Monday Night Foodball

  12-04-2023 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By the time the cameras showed up, the corner of Allen and Kimball had gotten too hot for Milo’s Market. “People would come by like a BYOB, and we would sell food out of the back of the house,” says Gilberto Bahena. “People came out walking their dogs, ‘What’s going on?’ And we’re like, ‘We’re […]
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• Duels and duets

  12-04-2023 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The lobby filled with the heat of many bodies on April 8 for closing night of Shamel Pitts|TRIBE’s Touch of Red, the first program of the MCA’s spring On Stage series on Blackness and movement, Frictions, curated by Tara Aisha Willis. By the spiral staircase, the short film Touch of Red: Overture plays on a […]
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• HUD Announces $5.5 Million Award for HBCUs to Conduct Housing and Community Development Research

  12-04-2023 15:00
  
  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
  @StacyBrownMedia
  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced awards totaling $5.5 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct housing and community development research.
  The announcement came during a Black Media Roundtable hosted by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge.
  Adjoa Asamoah, HUD’s senior advisor for Racial Equity; Melody Taylor, regional director for the Mid-Atlantic Office of
  
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• Mie Kongo, in profile

  12-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The tenth edition of EXPO is upon us, and since its reinvention at Navy Pier, I’ve covered nine of them. I love EXPO; it’s the art equivalent of binge-watching the entire first season of Yellowjackets in a single day. It’s funny, scary, disgusting, uplifting, and shamelessly melodramatic. And like ten hours of your life hazily […]
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• Funeral Services for 2 Chicago Firefighters Occur Today Through Friday

  12-04-2023 14:00
  
  Funeral services for fallen Chicago firefighters Lt Jan Tchoryk and Jermaine Pelt are set to take place today through Friday.
  A visitation for Pelt will be held Thursday at the Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn from 3-8 p.m. on Thursday (tomorrow). His funeral will occur Friday at 11 a.m. at the House of Hope Church in Chicago.
  Pelt was on the hose line fighting a predawn house fire in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Southside on April 4. After a mayday was called, the veteran firefighter
  
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• Kara Jackson’s commanding full-length debut provides sweet catharsis in bitter times

  12-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Society hasn’t yet adequately grasped the rolling mental-health crisis facing children and young adults whose education and social lives imploded practically overnight at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but preliminary studies indicate that the kids are not, in fact, all right. When the lockdowns struck, singer-songwriter and former U.S. youth poet laureate Kara Jackson […]
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