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• Black Social Media Platform Looking For New Users Amid Twitter Chaos

  05-07-2023 23:22
  
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  A Black-focused social media platform is getting attention again as Twitter tests users’ patience with new changes and questionable moderation policies. BlackPlanet and Spill encouraging people to open new accounts as Twitter users look for other alternatives.
  BlackPlanet, which was founded in 2001 by Omar Wasow and Benjamin Sun, has predated popular apps and websites that define the Internet today, including Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. In its earlier years, BlackPl
  
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• Disco for abortion access, soul yoga, and more

  05-07-2023 19:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Summertime in Chicago really reveals the city’s range. When there’s so much to choose from, how to pick any one thing? Well . . . The Gospel of the Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels by Michael Hann and the Hold SteadyAkashic Books, hardcover, $40, 208 pp., akashicbooks.com Do you eat, sleep, and read […]
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• Armando Perez of ÉSSO goes solo on oobs Rx

  05-07-2023 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Gossip Wolf has been hailing Armando Perez for his work with local groove-tastic ensemble ÉSSO since 2015. This wolf was especially impressed with the band’s 2021 album, Xicao, and its broad palette of dance-floor-filling sounds.  For the past few years, Perez has been working on radically different solo material, playing drums, guitars, bass, synths, and […]
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• The mother of a movement

  05-07-2023 16:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s increasingly rare that a day goes by, at the bookstore where I work, without someone asking for books on trans culture and stories reflecting our lives. People are always searching for literature as a guide on their path to freedom. Talking with trans youth about their days at school, recommending books to loving family […]
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• Mayor Johnson Appoints First Ever Deputy Mayor of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights

  05-07-2023 15:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed Beatriz Ponce de León as the inaugural Deputy Mayor of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights for the City of Chicago.
  “Beatriz is an excellent addition to our team, and I am looking forward to working with her to provide these vital and culturally vibrant communities the resources they need to thrive in our city,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “Together, we will ensure that Chicago embraces immigrants and asylum seekers, remains a safe,
  
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• Fifth-wave emo band Home Is Where offer catharsis to a burning world

  05-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Do you ever feel incapacitated by the firehose of depressing news about our deteriorating environment and the stubborn nonresponse by the governments and corporations who could actually help? What about the deeply ingrained structural racism that disenfranchises and marginalizes large swaths of our communities, or the fascists who want to increase that misery? Maybe what […]
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• Attorney General Warns Student Loan Borrowers About Scammers After Supreme Court Decision

  05-07-2023 14:00
  
  Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down the federal government’s student loan debt forgiveness plan, Attorney General Kwame Raoul is urging student loan borrowers preparing for the return to repayment to be aware of scam calls, emails and letters from fraudsters pretending to be loan servicers or promising debt relief.
  The court’s decision ends the repayment pause, which means federal student loans begin accruing interest Sept. 1, and payments resume in Octobe
  
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• Real Times Media wins 7 Excellence Awards at Annual NNPA Conference

  05-07-2023 13:56
  Real Times Media publications Michigan Chronicle and New Pittsburgh Courier earned seven newspaper and journalism awards for outstanding Black Press at the 2023 National Newspaper Publisher Association Fund’s Messenger Awards. The June 29 award ceremony took place during the NNPA’s annual convention, which was hosted from June 28-July 1 in Nashville, TN.
  The Chronicle won four of RTM’s seven awards, taking home third place in each of the following categories: The Robert L. Vann
  
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• The Carr Report: Nobody plans to fail! They just fail to plan!

  05-07-2023 13:00
  
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   Regardless of household income, most people are struggling financially. That’s right, it doesn’t matter if a person’s household income is $20,000 per year or $200,000, it’s hard making ends meet. Life is expensive. It costs you $150 just to go outside. Just think back to the shutdown during COVID. People had to stay inside. No one was spending money on anything other than essential items such as food, housing, transportation and utilities. T
  
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