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• Unveiling the depths

  06-07-2023 23:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before even entering the gallery, “Somewhere between the eyes and the heart” pulls you in. Leasho Johnson’s densely textured paintings vary in scale. The dark color palette and shiny pitch-black silhouettes are interrupted by bright splashes of color: vivid pink, yellow, blue, and tangerine. The Jamaican-born, Chicago-based artist’s subjects are abstract enough for their facial […]
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• Revelation and celebration

  06-07-2023 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 12-film retrospective presented at the Gene Siskel Film Center, under the questionable title of “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache,” will introduce audiences to the work of a fiercely personal artist.
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• Would you call your son to save your life? The decision of Chicago’s Carlishia Hood.

  06-07-2023 22:23
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• Gerald Sims played on two of the most immortal soul songs ever

  06-07-2023 18:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lately the Secret History of Chicago Music has been playing a losing game, trying to keep up with the all-too-frequent passings of underappreciated musicians from the 1960s and ’70s. I’ll celebrate some living artists soon, but first I want to shine a light on Gerald Sims, who died in May. Sims made immortal contributions to […]
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• Nando’s gives away free meals at all U.S. restaurants

  06-07-2023 17:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On July 18th, Nando’s celebrates Mandela Day. The South African restaurant gives customers free flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken in exchange for donations of back-to-school supplies On July 18, Nando’s PERi-PERi will honor its South African roots by celebrating Mandela Day, in recognition of the South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. To commemorate Mandela’s fight […]
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• ‘The League’ Celebrates Negro League Baseball and the Chicago Defender

  06-07-2023 16:00
  
  The new docu-film, “The League,” celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League Baseball’s triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. 
  Executive-produced by Academy Award winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard, this film serves as a reminder that African Americans will forever be the blueprint and original influencers in American society. 
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• Kamala Harris Calls SCOTUS Rulings An ‘Attack’ On ‘Hard-Fought Freedoms’

  06-07-2023 15:00
  
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  Vice President Kamala Harris is ready more than ever to continue our ancestors’ fight for civil rights.
  Following the Supreme Court’s rulings to strike down the White House’s student debt relief plan, affirmative action in college admission, and a Colorado law that protected LGBTQ+ rights, Harris took the stage at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture and addressed what she called an “attack” on our “hard-won and hard-fought freedoms.”
  
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• Mayor Brandon Johnson Appoints New Members to Chicago School Board

  06-07-2023 14:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced the appointment of six new members to the Chicago Board of Education. The newly appointed individuals include Jianan Shi as the new Board President, and Mariela Estrada, Mary Fahey Hughes, Rudy Lozano, Michelle Morales, and Tanya Woods as Board members. Additionally, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, a current Board member, will now serve as vice president.
  These appointments, effective from July 18, represent the final mayoral appointees prior to the transition to an e
  
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• This Week In Black History July 5 – 11, 2023

  06-07-2023 04:00
  
  JULY 51872—The Republican Party National Convention takes place in Philadelphia with substantial representation from former Black slaves. At least three Blacks addressed the national political gathering. At this point in history, the Republicans were the nation’s most progressive party and attracted the allegiance of African Americans. Blacks would remain loyal to the Republicans until the 1930s. But by 1945 with the Republicans becoming increasingly conservative and attracted to th
  
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• Jordan Neely’s killing demands we all confront racism

  06-07-2023 00:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On June 14, Daniel Penny was indicted for second-degree manslaughter for choking Jordan Neely to death on a New York subway in May. According to witnesses, Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Black man, was shouting that he didn’t have food or water, but also wasn’t threatening other passengers, when Penny, a 24-year-old white man, grabbed him […]
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