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• Supreme Court Deals Stunning Blow to Affirmative Action in College Admissions

  29-06-2023 20:50
  
  In a stunning blow to diversity in higher education and civil rights in general, the Supreme Court effectively gutted affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday. 
  The conservative-led Court overturned the admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. It argued that Harvard and UNC’s admissions programs violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.
  Chief Justice John Roberts stated that for a long time, universities have “conclud
  
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• Review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

  29-06-2023 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ve got to love a good old-fashioned animated girl power movie.
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• Review: Maggie Moore(s)

  29-06-2023 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The problem is that the decent Coen brothers knock-off and the better-than-decent rom-com don't really work together.
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• Magic College spells out more than tricks

  29-06-2023 19:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s nice to have at least one surprising hobby, so I read recently. It’s a core value I didn’t know I had, despite being a lifelong collector of offbeat and often impassioned pursuits. I cofounded a burlesque troupe in college; I jammed in a klezmer band with my dad; I canoodled with chickens as a […]
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• Another Marriage marks a promising playwriting debut

  29-06-2023 17:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the years that I’ve seen Kate Arrington onstage at Steppenwolf, “chameleonic” is the adjective that most often comes to mind. From show to show, she never seems to play the same type, slipping into the skin of characters so seamlessly that I have at times had trouble recognizing her initially. Which, paradoxically, makes her […]
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• See him, feel him

  29-06-2023 17:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pete Townshend wasn’t able to make it to Chicago for Monday night’s opening of The Who’s Tommy at the Goodman. But there was plenty of star power onstage already, particularly in Ali Louis Bourzgui’s hypnotic turn as the adult Tommy Walker. This reimagined reboot of the stage musical that first played Broadway 30 years ago […]
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• Elegy for the Age of Aquarius

  29-06-2023 17:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hair is such an icon—profanity and naked people on Broadway, oh my!—that it can be hard to remember it’s an actual play with a plot (Gerome Ragni and James Rado wrote the book and lyrics for Galt MacDermot’s score), and even a subplot. Kudos to director Derek Van Barham for focusing on the story of […]
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• The Origin of Lil’ Salty

  29-06-2023 16:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It started on a cold fall evening in 1952 When a boat transporting salt barreled down the Chicago River, right on cue. A storm was raging with astronomical rain As the boat’s crew approached the Elston dock, attempting to stay sane. They gathered their things, ready to leave A much needed break from the boat, […]
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• NASCAR: Thousands Attend Bubba’s Block Party at the DuSable Museum

  29-06-2023 16:00
  
  Bubba Wallace hung out with the Southside, and the Southside hung out with him — figuratively. Yet, thousands attended Wallace’s Bubba’s Block Party at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Washington Park.
  “Having people come out to such a historical place and have a great time. Sounds like a good night for a party,” said Wallace.
  It’s one of the key events preceding the inaugural NASCAR Chicago Street Race. Everything, from the food trucks
  
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• Overtime Elite – a private school, basketball league and media conglomerate – just sent two players to the NBA

  29-06-2023 14:58
  
  Amen Thompson, left, and his twin brother, Ausar, were selected fourth and fifth in the 2023 NBA draft.John Lamparski/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust
  by Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina
  When Overtime Elite held its first pro day in October 2022, its arena in Atlanta was charged with anticipation.
  Families, scouts and fans gathered to witness the unveiling of the next generation of prodigious basketball talent. I watched the event on a YouTube livestream, which broadcast t
  
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• Sisters in Cinema Awards Over $330,000 to Black Women Filmmakers

  29-06-2023 14:45
  
  2023 – 2024 Documentary Fellows (Photo: Courtesy of Sisters in Cinema)
  Sisters in Cinema, a Chicago based 501(c)3 non-profit with an inclusive mission to center and celebrate Black girls, women, and gender non-conforming media makers, announced today their 2023-2024 cohort for the Sisters in Cinema Documentary Fellowship, an initiative created to support Black women and gender nonconforming non-fiction directors through their entire career as media makers.
  In 2023 – 2024, Sisters in
  
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• Job Corps Commences Recruiting Effort in Illinois

  29-06-2023 14:30
  
  The U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program is recruiting in Illinois, offering immediate openings and free career training in leading industries for individuals aged 16-24 from low-income households.
  “Job Corps offers a path to apprenticeships and higher-paying careers in the nation’s fastest-growing industries,” said Rachel Torres, National Director of Job Corps. “Our graduates fill a critical need for employers and the economy.”
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• Exonerated Central Park Five Member Set To Win NYC Council Primary

  29-06-2023 14:00
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  Exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a Democratic primary election for a city council seat in New York.
  As of early Wednesday (June 28) morning, Salaam garnered nearly 51 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for a Harlem city council seat against challengers Inez Dickens, who trailed substantially behind in second place, and Al Taylor, the Associated Press reports.
  The city council race comes decades after the exoneration of Salaam and fo
  
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• Capturing the Argyle Night Market

  29-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When photographer and documentary filmmaker Ronit Bezalel (Voices of Cabrini, 70 Acres in Chicago) first walked over to the Argyle Night Market last summer, camera in hand, she didn’t know what to expect. As a documentarian for more than two decades, her ability and confidence in approaching strangers and asking them to take their picture […]
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• This Week In Black History June 28 – July 4, 2023

  29-06-2023 05:00
  
  STANDING AGAINST UNJUST WAR—In this May 10, 1967 file photo, Muhammad Ali, former world heavyweight boxing champion, speaks at an anti-war rally at the University of Chicago in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity, File)June 281839—Cinque (original name Senghbe), after being kidnapped and sold into slavery, is placed on the Spanish slave ship Amistad. The son of a King of the Mende (Mendi) tribe in West Africa would lead the most successful revolt on a slave ship during the entire hist
  
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• Christopher Riggs finds an uncommon resonance with their students

  29-06-2023 04:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Christopher Riggs doesn’t just play the electric guitar. They deconstruct it. They strip it down to its most fundamental elements. Forget scales, arpeggios, and even standard tunings—keys and harmonies are myths, anyway. Riggs eschews these things entirely, instead dragging their guitar to the brink and inviting us to hear the results. That’s not to suggest […]
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