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• Review: The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

  12-06-2023 19:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rife with evocative symbolism, Chilean director Francisca Alegria’s feature debut is an audacious, surrealistic expression of acute ecological distress and various ideas pertaining to contemporary agita.
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• Michael Eric Dyson, Minou Jones And Making It Count Community Development Corporation Hosted An Anti-Menthol Lunch and Learn for Juneteenth at The Detroit Historical Museum

  12-06-2023 18:42
  
  Veteran actor Hill Harper and Minou Jones, CEO & founder
  The fight to end menthol panel discussion during the Lunch and Learn featured Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
  On Saturday, June 10, Making it Count Community Development Corporation and Detroit’s own Dr. Michael Eric Dyson hosted a Juneteenth lunch and learn experience at the Detroit Historical Museum. The lunch and learn was geared at advocating against flavored tobacco products in our community.
   
  The Juneteenth event welcomed a li
  
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• ‘Queer Bronzeville Tour’: Uncovering History and Celebrating Courage

  12-06-2023 16:30
  
  This past Saturday, more than 40 people gathered at the South Side Community Art Center to take a walking tour through the heart of Bronzeville. This excursion would allow them to encounter the area’s lesser-known history. 
  From the 1920s on, Bronzeville, one of Chicago’s most prominent African-American communities, was home to a vibrant queer community. 
  The “Queer Bronzeville History Tour” illuminated this story by highlighting the spaces where Black LGBTQIA p
  
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• ‘Historic’: New York Passes Bill To Consider Reparations For Slavery

  12-06-2023 14:45
  
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  New York may soon create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering effects of slavery on its Black residents.
  Last week (June 8), the New York state assembly and Senate passed a bill that would create a reparations commission designed to examine the extent to which the state supported slavery and the persistent economic, political, and educational disparities its Black residents face today, per the Associated Press.
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• The alchemy of everyday happiness

  12-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Do you possess a talisman, a lucky charm? Like the amulets of history and myth, these objects can be the beads you wore, the fragrance you sprayed, the ceramic shard you grasped during moments of triumph and survival: the alchemy of everyday happiness. It’s this shared history that imbues these items with their energy, their […]
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• Over 200 Black Workers At California Tesla Factory Allege Rampant Racism

  12-06-2023 14:00
  
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  Tesla may be facing a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black workers said they’ve experienced or witnessed rampant racism and discrimination at a San Francisco Bay Area plant.
  Last Monday (June 5), testimonies from contractors and employees who worked at a Tesla factory in Fremont were filed in Alameda County Superior Court detailing the frequent use of racial slurs and instances where the manufacturing site was referred to as a plantation and slave ship, per the Associat
  
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• Singer-songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan loves all the genres

  12-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aaron Lee Tasjan’s 2021 album was called Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! (New West). The title captures the singer-songwriter’s exuberance and hints at his eclecticism—his records pack in so many different styles that listening to one can feel like you’re shuffling between three. Based in East Nashville, he’s perhaps most associated with roots music, per his “East […]
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