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• White Man Who Shot Ralph Yarl Has ‘Racist Tendencies’, Grandson Says

  21-04-2023 23:58
  
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  A grandson of the Kansas City homeowner charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who accidentally went to his home, said his grandfather has “racist tendencies and beliefs.”
  Yarl mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings last week when he was shot twice by 84-year-old homeowner Andrew Lester. Lester, who is white, was charged on Monday (April 17) with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action in Yarl’s shoo
  
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• ‘Snowfall’ Finale Reveals Tragic Reality Of America’s Drug War On The Black Community

  21-04-2023 19:57
  In the end, there were no winners, just perpetrators used to decimate a community. 
  After six season’s, FX’s “Snowfall” wrapped its series in dramatic fashion. Set in the early 1980s, the series shed light on how the U.S. government played a role in the infiltration of crack cocaine into Black neighborhoods. The Iran-Contra Affair was a scandal by the Reagan Administration which used earnings from cocaine and arms dealings to fund a right-wing rebel group in Nicaragu
  
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• Karen’s plan

  21-04-2023 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the risk of making you think I’m weirder than you may already think I am . . . Sometimes when walking alone late at night, I talk to friends and family who have died. Been doing it for a couple of years now. Going back to the pandemic when the streets were so deserted […]
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• Satirical Race Theory makes comedy look easy

  21-04-2023 16:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The phrase “white spaces” evokes quite a few strong images. Kohl’s. The LDS Church. Late-night talk show desks. Bar Harbor, Maine. And, for too many comics, improv clubs. It’s no secret that the sketch, stand-up, and improv worlds have long been incubators for exclusion and toxicity as much as laughter, and clubs have—to varying levels […]
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• The broken double helix of pain

  21-04-2023 16:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Donnetta Lavinia Grays’s play is about the limits of love—both in what it can accomplish, even when it feels infinite, and in what it can tolerate before it disappears. Monique (the protean Ayanna Bria Bakari) shows up at her sister’s house with her 11-year-old daughter in tow and an undisclosed agenda. (Daughter Sam is played […]
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• The price of blood

  21-04-2023 16:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down, produced by Congo Square Theatre last year, provided a trenchant and sometimes anguished portrayal of how racialized violence affects Black Americans over generations through a series of vignettes, rituals, songs, and more. Is God IsThrough 5/28: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun […]
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• Star turns

  21-04-2023 16:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jessica Dickey’s world premiere at Remy Bumppo (directed by Marti Lyons) has some echoes of Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife: the playwright appears as a character, researching the life of a historical figure as a way to come to grips with her own personal narrative. But unlike the ethically complicated (but still remarkable) […]
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• Jason Weaver, Son of The Chi: An Exclusive Interview

  21-04-2023 16:00
  
  Jason Weaver is as kind as he is talented. His genuine nature and authenticity ooze out of him in conversation. 
  The multifaceted entertainer sat down with The Chicago Defender to discuss the longevity of his legendary career, unshakeable faith and being deeply rooted in family. The Southside Chicago native who prefers the Cubs over the White Sox, Italian Fiesta over Beggars and “The Percolator” over “Footworking,” takes pride in being from our amazing city. 
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• Spell casting

  21-04-2023 15:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A sigil is a symbol believed to have supernatural powers. In Simiya, an Islamic branch of occult practice, letters and numbers are arranged into sigils in order to conjure up metaphysical powers, like the ability to fly or to disappear. Artist Maryam Taghavi has long been drawn to these sigils, and other magic-imbued symbols, ornamented […]
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• Black Lawmakers, Once Expelled From Tennessee House, Get White House Invite

  21-04-2023 14:15
  
  The two Black lawmakers who were once expelled from the Tennessee House over a gun violence protest have received an invite to the White House.On Monday (April 24), President Joe Biden is expected to host Democratic Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, the Black lawmakers who were once ousted from the state legislature, as well as Gloria Johnson, a third lawmaker who also protested gun violence on the House floor but was spared from expulsion, The Hill reports.Biden also thanked the lawmakers,
  
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• Searching for enlightenment

  21-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Artist Theodora Allen’s work has long reminded me of the Major Arcana tarot or a deck of playing cards; her paintings, both intimate and grand, are worlds ripe with hidden meanings. This merge of the physical with the metaphysical produces an uncanny sensation in the viewer. One might reasonably expect The Lovers, The Queen of […]
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• Colin Kaepernick To Fund Autopsy For Inmate ‘Eaten Alive’ By Bed Bugs

  21-04-2023 14:00
  
  Colin Kaepernick is donating his resources to the family of LaShawn Thompson, a 35-year-old man who died after attorneys said he was “eaten alive by insects and bed bugs” inside his jail cell in Atlanta.Thompson was found dead in his cell at Fulton County Jail in September 2022. The 35-year-old man was covered in lesions from a “severe bed bug infestation,” according to records. His cell was so filthy that a jail staffer wore a hazmat suit upon entering, the Washington Po
  
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• LiveToWynn Announces Chicago’s Best: Earth Day Pop Up This Saturday

  21-04-2023 13:30
  
  LiveToWynn Founder Maisha Wynn will host ‘Chicago’s Best: Earth Day Pop Up,’ a first-of-its-kind event highlighting eco-friendly businesses in Chicagoland on Saturday, April 22, which is Earth Day.
  “I’m thrilled my team and I are putting on an event that is positive and impactful,” said Wynn. “It’s nation building time, and it begins with taking care of our ecosystem.” LiveToWynn was founded by Maisha Wynn, Lifestyle TV Specialist, Wellness E
  
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• Jessee Rose Crane and Philip Lesicko of the Funs celebrate a stripped-down new album as Glow in the Dark Flowers

  21-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s hard to believe it’s been 11 years since Jessee Rose Crane and Philip Lesicko left Chicago for the teeny downstate town of New Douglass (population: 350 as of the 2020 census), partly because you can still feel their influence in our underground rock scene. With their old duo, the Funs, they’ve played noisy but […]
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• Breaking News: Biden Plans to Announce Reelection Campaign

  21-04-2023 11:44
  President Joe Biden will run for reelection.
  According to the Detroit News, Biden and his team will release an announcement video next Tuesday to coincide with the anniversary of his first bid for the White House.
  Though the White House has made no official announcement due to referring to rules prohibiting government agencies from campaign activity, “for months, Biden has signaled he planned to run for a second term, but he has held off an official announcement, as he and his aides felt n
  
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• a praise poem for Sukihana

  21-04-2023 04:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
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