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• Gabby Douglas Teases Gymnastics Comeback For 2024 Paris Olympics

  13-07-2023 23:17
  
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  Gymnastics star Gabby Douglas seems to have her eyes set on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  On Thursday (July 13), Douglas confirmed on Instagram that she’s training again, per Good Morning America.
  “For many years, I’ve had an ache in my heart. But I didn’t want to keep carrying anger, pain, sadness, or regret and through my tears and hurt, I’ve found peace,” Douglas said. “I wanted to find the joy again for the sport that I absolutely love
  
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• South of Roosevelt screens films at south-side brewery

  13-07-2023 22:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With a projector, a screen, chairs, and drinks, Whiner Beer Co.'s garden will turn into a moviegoing oasis for south-side filmmakers.
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• Reverend Jackson stepping down as president of Rainbow PUSH

  13-07-2023 22:25
  
   
  Photo caption: REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR. (seated at microphone) is pictured with Bishop Tavis Grant on Saturday, July 8, 2023 as he announces he will be stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in a few weeks. He said there will be a new president. (Photo by Chinta Strausberg)
  by Chinta Strausberg, The Chicago Crusader
  Having launched his civil rights career 57 years ago, Reverend Jesse Jackson, on Saturday, July 8, said he is stepping down as president of the Rainb
  
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• Raise your glass to Lucky when Laos to Your House returns to Monday Night Foodball

  13-07-2023 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Saturday nights, Lucky Seuamsothabandith kicks back with his buddies, drinking Henny and Perrier. There’s always a spread on the table, and it invariably includes yum seen, the minty, chili-flecked beef salad with red onions, lime, fish sauce, and toasted rice powder that’s the ideal Lao drinking food. “I try to outlast them,” says his […]
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• Ariel Zetina brings an inspiring queer community to Pitchfork

  13-07-2023 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In just over a week, Ariel Zetina debuts a live performance of her brazen 2022 album, Cyclorama, at the Pitchfork Music Festival. When it dropped, Zetina described the album as “an imagined theatrical production,” and this week that production takes its next step: onto the Green Stage in Union Park early next Sunday afternoon.  Building […]
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• Claes Oldenburg’s Chicago

  13-07-2023 18:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the corner of Madison and Jefferson in Chicago stands a 100-foot-high baseball bat, constructed in a lattice pattern from 20 tons of steel. It is the largest sculpture created by the artist Claes Oldenburg, a man from whose mind sprang any number of super-sized objects: a 45-foot tall clothespin in Philadelphia, a 29-foot-long spoon […]
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• Tornadoes, Rain Strike Chicagoland: Causing Damage and Disrupting Flights

  13-07-2023 15:00
  
  Tornadoes touched down in the Chicagoland area near O’Hare International Airport and Midway on Wednesday, disrupting hundreds of flights and forcing people to take shelter. There were others reported throughout the area, punctuating a Wednesday replete with heavy rains, flooding and strong-to-severe thunderstorms.
  The National Weather Service issued two tornado warnings for Chicago Wednesday evening. The threat was enough to set off sirens at locations within the city. Eight tornadoes in a
  
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• Algeria’s Imarhan celebrate resilience and tradition through globally informed desert rock

  13-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Imarhan emerged from southern Algeria’s close-knit Tuareg community in 2006. Fans of Tuareg rock greats Tinariwen will already be familiar with the quintet; Imarhan front man Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane (aka Sadam) is a cousin of Tinariwen bassist Eyadou Ag Leche, and he’s toured with the band to fill in for members who couldn’t go […]
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• White Attacker Allegedly Used N-Word Before Fatally Stabbing Black Man

  13-07-2023 14:30
  
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  A Black man was called a racial slur moments before he was fatally stabbed by a white assailant at a Kansas City gas station, according to witnesses.
  42-year-old Jon Rone Jr. was stabbed on July 4 just outside of the Liquor Land gas station, per the Kansas City Star. According to court documents, witnesses saw the attacker speaking “disrespectfully” to Rone, including calling him the N-word before the stabbing.
  An argument ensued, and one witness said she saw the
  
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• RECESS23: Walker-Miller Energy Services and Real Times Media Partner to Empower Black and Brown Leaders in Clean Energy

  13-07-2023 14:00
  
  Invited speakers for the inaugural conference include Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
  Walker-Miller Energy Services, one of the largest African American and woman-owned energy efficiency companies in the country, and Real Times Media, a leading producer of news and programming for Black audiences, are partnering to organize the Resilience and Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit (RECESS23). This groundbreaking event, to be held from October 30 to
  
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• Michigan Officer Faces Federal Charges After Punching Black Man

  13-07-2023 13:00
  
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  A Michigan police officer was charged on Monday (July 10) with a federal civil rights crime after he punched a Black man and slammed his head to the ground.
  19-year-old Jaquwan Smith was arrested on June 13, when he encountered now-former officer Matthew Rodriguez at the Warren police station, per ABC News. Video shows the two talking before Rodriguez punched Smith, knocked him to the floor, and slammed his head on the ground.
  Other officers at the station intervened and repo
  
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• This Week In Black History July 12-18, 2023

  13-07-2023 05:00
  
  July 121887—Mound Bayou, Miss., perhaps the nation’s best known historically all-Black town, is founded by ex-slave Isaiah Montgomery and his cousin Benjamin T. Green. It was built as a sanctuary for former slaves during a period when Jim Crow racism and terrorism by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were on the rise. It is considered the oldest surviving all-Black town in America. According to the 2000 Census, the town had 2,100 residents.1937—Actor, comedian and political acti
  
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• Walker-Miller Energy Services and Real Times Media Partner to Empower Black and Brown Leaders in Clean Energy

  13-07-2023 00:00
  
  Invited speakers for the inaugural conference include Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
  Walker-Miller Energy Services, one of the largest African American and woman-owned energy efficiency companies in the country, and Real Times Media, a leading producer of news and programming for Black audiences, are partnering to organize the Resilience and Equity in the Clean Energy Sector Summit (RECESS23). This groundbreaking event, to be held from October 30 to
  
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