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• Froghat fills an amphibian-shaped hole in the surf-rock firmament

  27-06-2023 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago artist Nicholas Clark first popped up on Gossip Wolf’s radar in 2016, when his Minnowland studio made a hilariously oddball Claymation video for “Sad Screaming Old Man,” a song by New York indie-folk musician and comic-book artist Jeffrey Lewis about his travails with a loud elderly neighbor. As it turns out, Clark also makes […]
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• Carlishia Hood Files Lawsuit Against City and Police Officers Over ‘Wrongful’ Arrest

  27-06-2023 20:45
  
  Carlishia Hood is suing the City of Chicago and five Chicago Police officers after she and her son were arrested for a deadly shooting that killed a 32-year-old man at a West Pullman hot dog stand.
  Hood filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against the City of Chicago and the five officers involved in her arrest for malicious prosecution, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  “On June 18 of this year, my life changed. My son’s life changed,” sa
  
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• Rediscovering Frank London Brown

  27-06-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This Is Life: Rediscovered Short Fiction by Frank London Brown collects the forgotten writing of a Chicago Renaissance writer at his height, showcasing vivid vignettes of Black life in the city 60 years ago. Published this June by From Beyond Press, This Is Life compiles Brown’s flash fiction written for the Chicago Daily Defender in […]
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• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to Speak at AME Convention in Chicago

  27-06-2023 15:00
  
  The Connectional Lay Organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, led by President Matikane Abednego Makiti from South Africa, will welcome Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, the first African American Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, to its 38th Biennial Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
  Jeffries will address the convention on June 27, 2023, at 1:30 pm at the Hilton Chicago. Other notable attendees include Mayor Brandon Johnson, Congressman Danny Davis, and Congressman Jo
  
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• Wendell Smith’s legacy

  27-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For the first time in more than 50 years, Chicago’s avid sports fandom can refamiliarize themselves with the insightful and generous writings of Wendell Smith, a pioneering sports journalist who served as the first Black president of the Chicago Press Club, in The Wendell Smith Reader, edited by Michael Scott Pifer.  Smith is most known […]
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• No Murder Charges For White Woman Who Fatally Shot Black Mother Ajike Owens

  27-06-2023 14:00
  
  Photo: Marion County Sheriff’s Office
  Florida officials have declined to pursue murder charges against Susan Lorincz, the 58-year-old woman who is accused of fatally shooting her Black neighbor, Ajike “AJ” Owens.
  On Monday (June 26), State Attorney Bill Gladson announced that Lorincz, who is white, will not be facing murder charges in Owens’ shooting death due to the “insufficient evidence,” per CNN. She has been charged with one count of manslaughter with a f
  
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• Black Student Banned From Prom, Graduation After Being Shot 10 Times

  27-06-2023 13:00
  
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  A Philadelphia student who survived 10 gunshots was banned from his senior prom and high school graduation.
  Dashawn Walker was shot 10 times on February 21 after leaving Mathematics, Civics, and Sciences Charter School of Philadelphia, per the Philadelphia Inquirer. Walker survived the shooting but sustained broken bones in his legs, forcing him to receive over a dozen surgeries and learn how to walk again.
  After spending two months in post-ICU at Temple University Hospital a
  
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• 9 Best Sugar Momma Websites and Apps to Meet Sugar Mommas (2023)

  27-06-2023 00:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A sugar daddy is always looking for his sugar baby, and vice versa. These are the top sites where sugar daddies and babies connect for real sugar relationships.
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