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• Rest in power to the King of Blackabilly

  22-05-2023 19:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The two of us were destined to meet. Eric “Shoutin’” Sheridan, who died of heart failure on April 29 at age 72, called himself the King of Blackabilly. And as far as I knew, I was the only other Black musician hanging out on Chicago’s white and Latine-dominated rockabilly scene.  Sheridan had moved here in […]
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• The facade slipped off, & the boy wept alone

  22-05-2023 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• NAACP issues travel advisory for Florida in response to governor’s actions on Black history and inclusion

  22-05-2023 18:00
  NAACP PRESIDENT & CEO DERRICK JOHNSONThe NAACP Board of Directors has taken a significant step by issuing a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. This advisory is a direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive measures aimed at erasing Black history and limiting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.
  The travel advisory, which serves as a formal notice, states that Florida openly exhibits hostility towards African Americans, people of color, an
  
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• Day Dreaming

  22-05-2023 17:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Review: You Hurt My Feelings

  22-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Definitely one to watch the way most people do with SNL: wait till the highlights hit YouTube and skip the rest.
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• The RenBen makes space for the unexpected

  22-05-2023 15:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After more than an hour in traffic on Lake Shore Drive, I made it to the Renaissance Society Thursday night just minutes before they closed. (The gallery had special afternoon hours for those attending its annual gala, the RenBen.) The unnamed exhibition on view, seemingly organized by Bruce Hainley and Shahryar Nashat, is just the […]
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• GOP Senator Tim Scott Files To Run For President

  22-05-2023 15:30
  
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  South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) is reportedly throwing his hat in the ring for the 2024 presidency.
  According to the Federal Election Commission’s website, Scott recently filed paperwork to run for president in 2024, per CNN. A formal announcement for his campaign for the presidency is set to take place today in South Carolina.
  The filing comes after Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, launched a presidential exploratory committee in April. Scott has sa
  
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• Senator Peters’ New Measure Could Help People with Criminal Records

  22-05-2023 14:45
  
  The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may soon be unable to require criminal background information from certain applicants for licensure, thanks to a measure carried by State Senator Robert Peters.
  “Requiring criminal background information when it can’t be used against an applicant for licensure opens the floodgates for those with prior justice system involvement to experience discrimination based on the negative biases associated with a criminal record,&
  
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• Common threads

  22-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Picture a strand of thread, feel it in your hands, make a knot. In Japanese folklore, there is a story that each and every person is born with a red thread around their finger. This thread connects them to another person: a pair destined to make indelible marks on the lives of one another. In […]
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• Coalition Urges Lawmakers to Go Back to Drawing Board for School Board Map

  22-05-2023 14:00
  
  A coalition of community groups is urging Illinois lawmakers to go back to the board and approve a new map for Chicago’s elected school board districts that better represents the rich diversity of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which overwhelmingly serve students of color.
  The community coalition submitted its own, revised map proposal today. The coalition’s district map meets the voting rights requirements and better reflects the actual population of CPS serves.
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• Tinariwen enhance the Tuareg blues of Amatssou with touches of country-and-western and ambient

  22-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2017, Reader critic Peter Margasak noted Tinariwen’s recurring practice of featuring rock musicians as guests on their records. Their new album, Amatssou, doesn’t change that approach, but it perfects it. Originally, the long-running ensemble of Tuareg musicians (also known as Kel Tamasheq, meaning speakers of Tamasheq) intended to make the album at Jack White’s […]
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