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• Avant-garde jazz genius Henry Threadgill drops in to talk about his new memoir

  06-06-2023 23:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The past month has been productive for flutist, saxophonist, and composer Henry Threadgill. A Chicago native and an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Threadgill is one of the most important living voices in the Black avant-garde. He’s one of only three jazz artists to have won a Pulitzer Prize […]
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• Microcinema, rock ’n’ roll photography, and more

  06-06-2023 20:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Warming temperatures mean it’s time to get out there and strut. From book signings to variety shows, there’s something coming up for everyone’s walking speed. Sweet Void Cinema screeningssweetvoidcinema.com The Humboldt Park-based production company and microcinema Sweet Void Cinema (3036 W. Chicago, Suite 1W) collects shorts from local filmmakers and screens them monthly as a […]
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• ‘This is the kind of stuff I’ve looked for my entire time in America’

  06-06-2023 18:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a Sunday evening in early February at Build Coffee in Hyde Park, dozens of folks from across the South Asian diaspora gathered over samosas, chai, and sweets. Immigrants and children of immigrants from a variety of South Asian countries, religions, classes, and castes mingled in the crowd. Many were dressed in kurtis, while others […]
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• Breaking barriers onstage

  06-06-2023 18:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What would A Midsummer Night’s Dream look like if presented in a way that made it accessible for all storytellers? If it were updated for today’s social media-saturated world? If it were told by people of all different abilities? It’s possible to find out June 10 or 11 at Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare when Artists […]
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• More Than Just Words, Dr. Monique Gary Urges Black Women to Stay Vigilant in Fight Against Breast Cancer

  06-06-2023 17:52
  
  Novartis’ pharmaceutical corporation’s More Than Just Words Campaign Brings Breast Cancer Screening to Women
   
  The hard truth is that every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. While one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, Black women are nearly twice as likely to get an advanced-stage diagnosis and more likely to die from the disease. And while disparities in breast cancer awareness, screening and treatment exist at every step of the proces
  
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• Fields Tops Bears in Social Media, Far Below the NFL’s No. 1 Influencer

  06-06-2023 16:15
  
  This news should come as no surprise, but the Chicago Bears’ biggest social media influencer is quarterback Justin Fields.
  This information comes from sports betting site bookmakers.bet, which recently looked at all 32 NFL franchises to pick the one player who has the largest Instagram following on each team.
  The Bears signal-caller has the most IG followers on his team, with almost 1.1 million.
  Yet, Fields isn’t the NFL’s top social media influencer. And it isn’t Su
  
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• Chicago Foster Children Gain Dignity and Ownership with ‘Hope in a Suitcase’

  06-06-2023 16:00
  
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  Thanks to caring and committed people, some Chicago-area foster children will have luggage to call their own. The Will County Black Diamond Chapter of Top Ladies of Distinction and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois held their 3rd Annual Hope in a Suitcase event on Saturday at the Blue Door Neighborhood Center.
  TLOD and BCBSIL volunteers collected dozens of new and “gently loved” luggage and overnight bags for children in foster care. Monetary donation
  
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• Cop City Will Be Built Despite Mass Protests, Atlanta City Council Approves Funding

  06-06-2023 14:17
  Stop Cop City Mass Mobilization at Atlanta City Hall for Council Vote on Monday, June 5th
   
  After a nearly 14½ hour long session against a backdrop of hundreds of protestors, Atlanta City Council members voted 11 to 4 to fund the highly controversial Cop City in Atlanta. Opponents of the training facility say they are concerned that the state of the art police training facility will militarize police and result in more police brutality and police slayings of Black and Brown residents
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: What happened to the Joshua generation?

  06-06-2023 13:00
  
  According to ancient wisdom texts, a wise person leaves an inheritance to their children’s children. In the macro, a wise people leave a cultural inheritance for generations to come.
  A cultural inheritance is vast, but at its core are ideas and beliefs.
  After times change, a new generation appears that is the first of its kind. Certain notions that were maintained for generations no longer apply. When nonessential concepts are passed down to this generation, they inherit a burden, not a be
  
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• Experimental doom pioneers Khanate make a surprise return after 14 years of silence

  06-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During their initial run, from 2000 till 2006, New York City’s explosive Khanate helped usher in a new era of experimental heavy metal, setting off an ongoing wave of interest in bands such as Boris, Om, and Sunn O))) (which Khanate guitarist Stephen O’Malley had founded with Greg Anderson in 1998). But while some of […]
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• Chicago Broadcast Legend Merri Dee Honored with Youth Technology Lab Naming on June 14

  06-06-2023 13:00
  
  Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action, Inc. (PLCCA) is delighted to announce the unveiling of the Merri Dee Youth Technology Lab, a tribute to the esteemed Merri Dee, an invaluable mentor and advocate for PLCCA. The dedication ceremony will be held on June 14 at 9 a.m., located on the lab’s second floor at 515 S. St. Charles Road, Maywood, IL 60153.
  Distinguished guests slated to attend and speak at the dedication include the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives Emanuel C
  
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• Cornel West Is Running For President

  06-06-2023 01:10
  
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  Former Harvard professor and academic activist Cornel West is making a bid for the 2024 presidency.
  On Monday (June 5), West announced on social media that he’s running as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party.
  “I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for president of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” West said in a video posted to Twitter. “I enter for the quest for tru
  
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