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• DisFest comes to the Chicago Cultural Center

  20-07-2023 22:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ladonna Freidheim wants Chicago to know that there’s a dynamic community of disabled performers and artists here in the city that are ripe for discovery. That’s the motivation behind DisFest, a free celebration of disabled creativity taking place at the Chicago Cultural Center this Saturday. Freidheim, a wheelchair dancer with Oak Park’s MOMENTA Dance Company […]
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• Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Tour Happens this Saturday in Bronzeville

  20-07-2023 16:00
  
  This Saturday, a group of participants will go on a tour that revisits the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the single worst incident of racial violence in the city’s history.
  This two-hour bike and trolley tour, hosted by the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, will commence through the historic Bronzeville and Bridgeport neighborhoods on the Southside. 
  Yet, this tour is more than just an exercise in historical recollection. 
  Instead, it’s an exploration of how the
  
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• Carlee Russell’s Search History Prior To Disappearance Revealed

  20-07-2023 15:00
  
  Photo: Hoover Police
  Hoover, Alabama police have revealed new details regarding the disappearance of Carlee Russell, the 25-year-old woman who went missing after calling 911 to report a child alone on the side of a highway.
  On Wednesday (July 19), Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis provided updates on the investigation into Russell’s disappearance following her return home on Saturday (July 15), per TMZ.
  According to Derzis, surveillance video shows Carlee taking a robe and toilet paper with
  
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• City Council Appoints Mary Richardson-Lowry as Corporation Counsel

  20-07-2023 14:30
  
  On Wednesday, the City Council granted approval to Mary Richardson-Lowry, appointing her as the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. As the lead attorney, Richardson-Lowry will offer legal guidance and representation to the City’s Departments, Boards, and the Chicago City Council.
  With her appointment, Richardson-Lowry becomes the first ever Black woman to serve as Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago.
  “I’m proud to announce Mary Richardson-Lowry as the City of C
  
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• Black Alphabet NFP Receives a $30K Obama Foundation Grant

  20-07-2023 13:30
  
  Black Alphabet NFP, an arts-focused nonprofit organization advocating on behalf of the Black LGBTQ+ community, announced today it has been selected by the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (MBK Alliance), a program of the Obama Foundation, to receive $30,000 in funding as part of Chicago’s $1M Freedom Summer 2023 grant program.
  Black Alphabet is an arts-focused nonprofit with wellness at the core of its programming, which is designed to create and spread awareness of issues uniquely or di
  
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• This Week In Black History July 19-25, 2023

  20-07-2023 05:00
  
   
  July 19
  1848—Anti-slavery activist and the foremost Black leader of his day Frederick Douglass gives a stirring speech at the First Women’s Rights Convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, N.Y.Douglas helped sway the 260 women and 40 men present to back a women’s right to vote resolution being pushed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Initially, many of the delegates opposed the resolution fearing it was too radical an idea for the times but changed their minds after hearing
  
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