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• Watch: Jill Scott Performs at the 2023 Cincinnati Music Festival

  24-07-2023 22:24
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• Attorney Ben Crump Files Suit Against Northwestern University Over Hazing

  24-07-2023 21:18
  
  Renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and co-counsel Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby Black of Levin & Perconti today filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates, alleging he suffered frequent locker room harassment, unwanted physical, and sexual contact, and other tortious and humiliating acts that have caused psychological trauma that continues to impact his life.
  The lawsuit is the first of what’s ex
  
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• REVOLT CEO Detavio Samuels on AI Being a Disrupter in Media Industry

  24-07-2023 20:36
  
  “I believe the technology sector is the modern day gold rush,” said Detavio Samuels, CEO of REVOLT. “It is the biggest creator of generational wealth over the last century.
  Samuels leads REVOLT Media & TV, which was founded by Sean “Puffy/P. Diddy” Combs in 2012 and has since become America’s fastest-growing Black-owned media company.
  Speaking in front of thousands of attendees during Black Tech Week, Samuels spoke passionately about the importance of Blac
  
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• Review: Talk to Me

  24-07-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Talk to Me is a by-the-numbers genre horror exercise which could as easily have found a home at Blumhouse. It's elevated, though, by its attention to building sympathetic characters and by its remarkably ruthless willingness to tear those same characters apart. 
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• Hundreds Attend 1919 Chicago Race Riots Bike Tour, Largest One Yet

  24-07-2023 16:00
  
  Photos: Tacuma Roeback
  On Saturday, 300 bicyclists and trolley riders converged on a Bronzeville parking lot for a tour that chronicles one of the darkest moments in the city’s history: The Chicago race riot of 1919.
  The tour, given by the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project with support from Organic Oneness, began at a 35th and State parking lot on a corner opposite a Starbucks and a few blocks from where the Chicago White Sox play. 
  About 104 years ago, amid a brutal wee
  
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• Mom Of Travis King, US Soldier Who Crossed Into North Korea, Pleas For Help

  24-07-2023 14:30
  
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  The mom of a U.S. soldier who crossed into North Korea is pleading for help with her son’s return home.
  According to WISN, Pvt. Travis King was accused of assault and damaging a police car while in South Korea. He was released from a South Korean detention facility on Monday (July 21) before he crossed the border into North Korea without authorization.
  Since entering North Korea, King’s exact whereabouts and well-being have remained unknown.
  King’s mom, Clau
  
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• Staying grounded

  24-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the exhibition notes for “Fondage,” currently up at Purple Window Gallery, an epigraph from the book The Laws of Love compares the work of human relationships to the work of gardening. While that particular metaphor has long made the rounds within the realm of popular psychology, it is useful to keep in mind when […]
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• Local guitar heroes Ryley Walker and Bill MacKay reunite onstage for the first time in five years

  24-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Bill MacKay told me it’d been five years since he played with Ryley Walker—something they used to do all the time—it reminded me once again how badly the pandemic era has shaken our collective grip on time. Getting back to real life, relationships, and projects has been slow going, and on top of that […]
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• Consumer Advocates to Illinois Utilities: Pause Shut-Offs in Storm-Ravaged Areas

  24-07-2023 14:00
  
  Last week, consumer advocates called on utilities across the state–including Ameren Illinois, Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas and Nicor Gas–to issue a moratorium on utility shut-offs and offer special assistance to help residents of areas ravaged by extreme summer weather.
  Leaders of several advocacy groups, such as the Citizens Utility Board (CUB), Blacks In Green (BIG), and Community Organizing & Family Issues (COFI), united with state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford to advocate fo
  
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• Pivot Gang’s Frsh Waters shares two new tracks on The Aqua Lounge

  24-07-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pivot Gang will go down as one of the most important and prolific artist collectives in Chicago hip-hop history, even though most casual fans haven’t caught on to their music yet. These seasoned west-side rappers come together to create a distinctly soulful sound, and the tapestries of drill-inspired flash and winsome alt-rap on individual members’ […]
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