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• Search Warrant Executed in Investigation into Tupac Shakur’s Murder

  18-07-2023 23:34
  
  Could there be a break in the case involving the decades-old killing of Tupac Shakur?
  That appeared to be the case when Las Vegas authorities confirmed they served a search warrant this week concerning Shakur’s murder, which occurred nearly 27 years ago.
  The search warrant was executed in nearby Henderson, Nevada, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
  A department spokesperson said he could not provide further details on this development, including whether the war
  
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• Kyrie Irving, Tyler Perry Help 93-Year-Old Woman Fight To Keep Her Land

  18-07-2023 20:55
  
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  NBA star Kyrie Irving, Tyler Perry, Fantasia, and other Black celebrities are helping a 93-year-old South Carolina woman who is fighting to keep her land in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
  For nearly 30 years, Josephine Wright has lived at her Hilton head property, a 1.8-acre piece of land that’s belonged to her family since shortly after the Civil War, per the Atlanta Black Star.
  A GoFundMe account was started by Wright’s granddaughter, Charise Graves, as developers
  
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• WHPK faces a funding crisis that could take it off the air

  18-07-2023 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On July 14, student organizers at University of Chicago radio station WHPK released a public letter to university leadership requesting more financial support for the upcoming school year—in part to mitigate an oncoming crisis of equipment maintenance. In April, the student-run Program Coordinating Council, which allocates student government money every year, gave WHPK $20,600 for […]
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• Confronting police brutality and state violence

  18-07-2023 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rarely is an exhibition title as apt as this one. In his first hometown solo show, up at Povos in West Town, Hubert Neal Jr. dissects a uniquely American social sedative: that preventable mass violence is both an anomaly and an acceptable price for freedom. Neal probes that foundational falsehood with his figurative paintings, rendered […]
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• Rev. Jesse Jackson Honored at Convention, Paving the Way for New President

  18-07-2023 16:00
  
  This weekend at Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual convention, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was given his flowers and honored with a well-deserved tribute after a panel of Jackson’s former presidential campaign leaders proudly shared stories from the trail. 
  The 35th anniversary of Rev. Jackson’s two time-presidential candidacy was held at Rainbow PUSH headquarters, the civil rights organization he founded in 1971.
  It was a fitting tribute to the pioneering civil rights activist, wh
  
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• Black Alabama Woman Found Alive, Family Speaks Out

  18-07-2023 15:45
  
  Photo: Hoover Police
  The family of Carlee Russell, an Alabama woman who mysteriously disappeared after she called 911 to report a child on the side of a highway, is speaking out after she was found alive.
  Russell, 25, went missing on Thursday (July 13) after she told a 911 dispatcher that she spotted a toddler walking alone on the side of Interstate 459 South, according to Hoover police. Following the 911 call, Russell got out of her vehicle to check on the child and called a family member, who
  
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• Renault A. Robinson, Former CPD Officer, Passes Away After Battle with Cancer

  18-07-2023 15:30
  
  Memorial Service Set for July 25th at Saint Sabina
  Former Chicago police officer Renault A. Robinson has died, his family announced on Monday. Robinson, a lifelong Chicagoan, served in the Chicago Police Department (CPD) from 1964 to 1983.
  He also co-founded the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL), an organization committed to enhancing police service in Black communities and promoting equal opportunities for Black police officers to assume leadership roles. After a lengthy battle with
  
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• Sleep Sinatra and Televangel give listeners a taste of Nebraska hip-hop on Incorruptible Saints

  18-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Midwest hip-hop is alive and well in . . . Lincoln, Nebraska? The richness of Lincoln’s hip-hop scene may go largely unnoticed by mainstream fans, but that doesn’t negate the subterranean greatness of local stalwarts such as Adrian Madlock, who makes music as Sleep Sinatra. Sleep’s discography is bountiful and aggressively independent; his Bandcamp page […]
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• CBS Meteorologist Elise Finch Dead At 51 Days After Appearing On Air

  18-07-2023 14:30
  
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  Emmy-winning meteorologist Elise Finch has died, according to WCBS New York, the station she worked at for 16 years. She was 51.
  Finch died at a local hospital, and her cause of death remains unknown, WCBS said in a statement announcing her death.
  “Elise has been a friend and team member at WCBS for 16 years,” the station said. “Elise was a gifted and consummate professional who took great care with her work. She was also a wonderful ambassador in the commun
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Did ‘positive discrimination’ kill Affirmative Action?

  18-07-2023 13:34
  
  Political theorists make distinctions between negative and positive rights. A negative right is when a person can freely do something without interference from the government. A positive right requires the government to provide a person with something at the expense of another.
  Affirmative Action applied a similar distinction to discrimination.
  Discrimination is not inherently harmful. It simply means to distinguish. Negative discrimination, on the other hand, is creating a differentiation again
  
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