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• UNCF Chicago honored ‘Millennial Masterminds’ at Annual Gala

  21-06-2023 21:23
  
  On Saturday (June 17), UNCF Chicago gathered thousands of people in support of their “A Mind Is Gala” at the Hyatt Regency. 
  Black excellence set the tone for the evening as many filled the room with their best gowns and tuxedos to raise awareness, but most importantly, funds for scholarships so students can attend a United Negro College Fund member institution on the campus of a historically black college or university.
  The entire evening was giving wealth, class, education, an
  
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• It’s finally burger night with Heffer BBQ at the next Monday Night Foodball

  21-06-2023 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Brisket is the great shapechanger in Heffer BBQ’s vast repertoire. The central Texas-Mexican barbecue duo have deployed their dreamy smoked beef breast in tacos, crunchwraps, Italian meatballs, bo ssam, brisquites, and classic Hill Country-style barbecue platters. But nothing lures hapless smoke-starved beef fiends to the Plant like their half-pound smoked brisket burgers, topped with pickled […]
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• Ghost Voice reimagine classical music for pedal steel, electric piano, and double bass

  21-06-2023 18:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Gossip Wolf readers may already know Chicago steel-guitar maestro Tom McGettrick from leading instrumental band Mar Caribe, appearing on albums by guitarist Thomas Comerford, or touring with Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls. McGettrick has been working on ingenious arrangements for a new group, Ghost Voice, that also features Jeff Parker (Chicago Cellar Boys) on double […]
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• From Skokie to Spain

  21-06-2023 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Skokie is a suburb on the north side of Chicago with a cemetery on one side of the street and a cosmetic surgeon on the other, where a designated forest preserve is a square patch of land about one residential block in length and width. Signage abounds: “No Trespassing” in the parking lot by a […]
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• American Black Film Festival celebrates Black excellence in Miami

  21-06-2023 14:00
  The 27th edition of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) kicked off in style on a scorching opening night, as the festival ambassador, Lena Waithe, and Nicole Friday, President & COO of Nice Crowd (formerly ABFF Ventures), delivered welcome speeches to inaugurate this year’s momentous event. The festivities began on the heels of an exciting announcement regarding expanding the group’s event offerings under the Nice Crowd banner.
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• The Carr Report: Budget Sculpting

  21-06-2023 13:00
  
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  When it comes to your money, you should know where you are, where you’re going, and how you’ll get there. This all starts with the dreaded B-word, BUDGET. The very mention of the word budget sets off a feeling of confinement, restriction, limitation and loss of control. I admit there is a sense of confinement, restriction, and limitation associated with managing money—but it has nothing to do with a budget. What confines,
  
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• Breakout North Carolina indie rockers Wednesday play Metro

  21-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I pay attention whenever Chicagoan Owen Ashworth releases music through his Orindal Records label, and not just because I like his indie-pop project Advance Base. Orindal’s back catalog is a murderers’ row of indie artists, some of whom the label got behind very early in their careers: Julie Byrne (who will release The Greater Wings […]
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• Mystery Surrounds Deaths Of Two Black Friends & Their Neighbor

  21-06-2023 12:45
  
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  The relatives of two Black women are seeking answers after they were shot to death days before their neighbor, a convicted sex offender, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at his home next door in Columbus, Georgia.
  According to NBC News, the March deaths of 52-year-old Juantonja Richmond and 51-year-old Ronisha Anderson, friends who worked together as billing specialists, and neighbor Soloman Adams, 65, remain unsolved.
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• High grades

  21-06-2023 01:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the aftermath of presiding over his first City Council meeting, Mayor Brandon Johnson gave himself the highest grade possible. “If you’re keeping score, I believe it was 41 alderpersons voted for it,” Johnson told reporters. “I would consider that an ‘A’ grade. I mean—I don’t know what a brother’s gotta do to get a […]
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