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• Review: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

  15-06-2023 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a dissonance throughout Transformers: Rise of the Beasts caused by the extreme brutality of its action sequences and the extreme earnestness of its many emotional beats.
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• Review: The Flash

  15-06-2023 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Racing into theaters after years of development hell, corporate shuffling, and other bad publicity, The Flash feels less like a feature film than a splashy event comic miniseries.
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• Review: The Blackening

  15-06-2023 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Poised to become a summer blockbuster, The Blackening is a hilarious horror-comedy romp that’s smart and self-aware.
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• Review: Flamin’ Hot

  15-06-2023 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Flamin’ Hot—the directorial debut of Eva Longoria—tells the story of the invention of the titular Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), a janitor at Frito-Lay.
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• Trans elders are revolutionaries

  15-06-2023 18:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The following five profiles feature trans and genderqueer elders in Chicago as they reflect on identity and joy this Pride Month.
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• Pride at the movies

  15-06-2023 18:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Here’s a list of recommended titles, with an unapologetic slant toward films screening in Chicago theaters.
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• Bummer Wines brings natural wine to the neighborhood

  15-06-2023 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By creating a wine club for residents of the Pilsen neighborhood, Rodriguez and Sanchez knew they could make a bigger impact in the beverage space and positively contribute to the community. And so Bummer Wines was born. 
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• Godflesh look to their past on the powerful third record of their reunion run

  15-06-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Industrial-metal pioneers Godflesh have been reunited for 14 years, which is exactly how long they were together when they revolutionized heavy music from the late 80s through the early 2000s. Just as that symmetry presents itself, so do the band’s explorations of musical concepts. Formed in Birmingham, UK, in 1988 by multi-instrumentalist (and former Napalm […]
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• Meet Michael A. Nance: A 2023 Men of Excellence Honoree

  15-06-2023 15:45
  
  Michael A. Nance makes transformative investments in underserved communities in Chicago and beyond. He also supports promising businesses and entrepreneurs. 
  Yellow Banana, the majority black-owned company he co-founded under his company 127 Wall, operates nearly 40 grocery stores under the Save A Lot banner in the Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Jacksonville and Dallas metropolitan areas. 
  “What we’ve tried to make our calling card is to go into localities that other people
  
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• 16 Father’s Day Gift Ideas From Black-Owned Businesses

  15-06-2023 15:00
  
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  Father’s Day is almost here, and the Black Information Network has got you covered!
  Shopping for dad is never easy; however, this gift guide can do just the trick. Keep scrolling to see how you can celebrate dear ol’ Dad and support Black business owners at the same time!
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• Remembering JoJo Baby

  15-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  JoJo Baby made a life as a living doll. After nearly four decades in nightlife, the artist and performer died this spring from a long battle with cancer. They were 51. Before becoming JoJo, they were born Joseph Arguellas—the oldest of four children raised by a Greek father and a Lakota mother. From the modest […]
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• Joyce Wrice brings classic 90s R&B into a new era

  15-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joyce Wrice draws from a deep well of classic 90s R&B. The Los Angeles singer’s 2021 single “On One,” from her self-released debut album, Overgrown, recalls the days when Mary J. Blige and Brandy reigned the airwaves and MTV. The grooves of its slick bass line burrow deep, providing a topographical foundation over which Wrice’s […]
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• City Colleges Honors Timuel D. Black Jr.’s Legacy with Inaugural Scholarship

  15-06-2023 13:00
  
  The City Colleges of Chicago Foundation, in collaboration with City Colleges of Chicago, will host the inaugural Timuel D. Black Jr. Scholarship & Fellowship Luncheon on Thursday (June 15) from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Malcolm X College in Chicago (1900 W. Jackson Boulevard). This event will unveil the first cohort of Timuel D. Black Jr. fellows.
  Timuel Dixon Black Jr., an American educator, civil rights activist, historian, and author, played a significant role in the civil rights movement. I
  
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• This Week In Black History June 14-20, 2023

  15-06-2023 05:47
  
  BESSIE COLEMANJune 141811—White anti-slavery activist Harriet Beecher Stowe is born. Stowe was the author of one of the best-selling books of 1852—“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The book addressed the brutality of slavery and featured the character of “Uncle Tom”—a slave who, perhaps unfairly, came to symbolize the accommodating Black person who showed complete deference to Whites. The book was such an indictment of slavery that when President Abraham Lincol
  
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• Karen Caught Trepassing In Black Neighbor’s Home In Viral TikTok

  15-06-2023 02:49
  Photo: TikTok – @deschwanden
  A viral TikTok video appears to show a white woman storming through her Black neighbor’s home over an alleged noise complaint.
  TikTok user @deschwanden said he and his friends were having a “small rooftop concert,” when the woman, who he referred to as his “first Karen,” walked through his home uninvited.
  Video of the incident shows the woman trespassing in the man’s home while holding her phone camera.
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