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• YSL Trial: Rapper Young Thug Rushed To Hospital Before Scheduled Court Appearance

  11-05-2023 23:44
  Young Thug has been rushed to the hospital. The chart-topping rapper was scheduled to appear in a Fulton County courtroom this morning, but was transported to the hospital after being escorted from the Cobb County jail, according to WSB.  
  Young Thug reportedly became sick and authorities decided to take him to a nearby hospital for treatment. His health concerns were made known by one of his attorneys during a previous hearing. 
  In April, Young Thug’s lawyers requested a bo
  
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• Oldest Living Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Turns 109

  11-05-2023 22:46
  
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  One of the last three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre just turned 109.
  On Wednesday (May 10), Viola “Mother” Fletcher celebrated her 109th birthday amid a court case regarding reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, KTUL reports.
  Fletcher was just seven years old when Tulsa’s then-thriving Greenwood District, known by many as Black Wall Street, was destroyed by a white mob during a massacre that left an estimated 300 Black people dead
  
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• Fathers and sons

  11-05-2023 22:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Back in 2012, playwright and solo artist Dael Orlandersmith performed Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. In a series of monologues drawn from interviews with several subjects, Orlandersmith anatomized cycles of abuse and toxic masculinity through the voices of a variety of people (a preteen sex worker, a social worker) from […]
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• Southern stories

  11-05-2023 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I first saw Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s autobiographical From the Mississippi Delta over 30 years ago in the old Goodman studio theater space. Though it’s been revived many times since, I hadn’t seen it again until the current Lifeline and Pegasus Theatre Chicago coproduction at Lifeline. It’s a testament to Holland’s gift for dialogue […]
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• Abstraction and realism

  11-05-2023 21:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This double bill of plays from two very different theater companies (Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and CIRCA-Pintig), working in two very different styles—one abstract, movement-based, very self-consciously artistic, the other a more basic realistic theater—don’t really go well together. Daryo’s All-American Diner and The WastelandThrough 5/20: Fri-Sat 8 PM; Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster, danztheatre.org, […]
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• Dory Fantasmagory offers sheer family delight

  11-05-2023 21:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dory, or “Rascal,” as she is known to her family, is a six-year-old with a lively imagination, which includes her not-quite-a-monster best friend, Mary. Her older siblings, exasperated by her antics, make up a story about a scary woman who kidnaps “babies”—which to them means a kid sister with imaginary friends. But when Mrs. Gobble […]
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• Upending the narratives

  11-05-2023 21:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, but is only getting its Chicago premiere now courtesy of Definition Theatre. After seeing Tyrone Phillips’s staging at the cozy Revival space in Hyde Park, I’m glad that Definition snagged it, and not just because this company (which has been doing excellent work for years and […]
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• ‘One beautiful action won’t magically change the complex problem’

  11-05-2023 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Chicago artist Amanda Williams about her art project “Redefining Redlining” and how art can help inspire action. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. In October 2022, artist Amanda Williams organized a massive community tulip planting event, in which volunteers planted 100,000 red tulips in […]
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• DRW Apprenticeship Program Wants People of Color in Tech

  11-05-2023 16:15
  
  As one of the few Black men in his industry, Brawnski Armstrong counts his rise to become a software engineer as lucky yet unlikely. 
  Armstrong came from meager beginnings, but he was one of those people who always knew what he wanted to do when he first touched a computer. He enrolled at the prestigious Cass Technical High School in Detroit, which has a computer curriculum, and he attended the University of Michigan on a golf caddie scholarship. His family was also supportive, he said. In
  
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• Subconscious romance

  11-05-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “What is it like to be a character in a dream?,” asks the protagonist of Waking Life (2001), Richard Linklater’s first stab at rotoscope animation. The question lies at the heart of clown, mime, and musician Marvin Quijada’s The Dream King, Teatro Vista’s new production codirected by ensemble member Sandra Marquez and Physical Theater Festival […]
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• Reupholstered and reimagined

  11-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pay attention to the details. They’re necessary to fully appreciate Anya Kielar’s exhibition, “Madam,” at Document. The minimal show only features four new sculptures, but that doesn’t limit the depth of her work. The pieces on view are wall sculptures that capture four distinct portraits of female identity, reimagining traditional “bust” sculptures as relief paintings. […]
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• This Week In Black History May 10-16, 2023

  11-05-2023 02:00
  
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  May 10
  1837—P.B.S. Pinchback was born in Macon, Ga., to a White plantation owner and a free Black woman. He became one of the leading Black politicians of the Reconstruction era, especially in Louisiana. After the Civil War, he became lieutenant governor of Louisiana and actually served as governor for 43 days. He was later elected to both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He would also play a significant role in the establishment of Southern University
  
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