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• COLUMN: How to Maximize the Next 6 Months and Achieve Your Goals

  29-07-2023 16:15
  
  Imagine it being July and you’re completely satisfied with the way your year has gone. Now, imagine it being July and you aren’t.
  Two things can be true. You can navigate in the same manner or you can find a new approach. If it’s not broken don’t fix it, but if it is then give it the maintenance that it deserves.
  The next six months have the potential to completely change the trajectory of your life. Why wouldn’t you want to test that out?
  Making Your Goals Real
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• A Silver Room Block Party Farewell and More Fun Things to Do This Weekend

  29-07-2023 15:00
  
  This weekend is bittersweet.
  For the last time, we will have the Silver Room Sound System Block Party, the unapologetically Black celebration of love, music and harmony.
  Since businessman Eric Williams started the festival in 2002, it has become thee destination event for the summer. People met at the Silver Room Block Party and got married. Friendships, memories and being turned on to good music, this event served as the setting for all of that for many.
  But, as Williams articulated in this vid
  
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• Rep. du Buclet Applauds Planned Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monuments

  29-07-2023 14:00
  
  State Rep. Kimberly du Buclet, D-Chicago, is applauding President Joe Biden’s announcement this week that new national monuments will honor the lives of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley at significant sites in Chicago and Mississippi.
  “It is long past due that we dedicate space to reflect on the injustice perpetrated against Emmett Till and the countless victims of Jim Crow throughout our history, and to honor how Mamie Till-Mobley resolved to turn her grief into historic
  
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• Rep. Cori Bush Calls Out Republican Lawmaker: ‘Your Bills Are Racist’

  29-07-2023 01:58
  
  Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images News / Getty Images
  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) criticized Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the House floor Thursday (July 27) as lawmakers voted on a bill allocating funds for the Department of Veterans Affairs, military construction, and other related agencies, per USA Today.
  “Your bills are racist,” she stated, leading to “boos” and other outcries from Republican representatives. Bush stood firm on her statement, later retweeting the
  
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• Carlee Russell Arrested, Charged In Kidnapping Hoax

  29-07-2023 01:52
  
  Photo: Hoover Police Department
  Carlee Russell has been charged in connection to her kidnapping hoax.
  On Friday (July 28), prosecutors in Hoover, Alabama charged the Alabama nursing student with two misdemeanors: falsely reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident, TMZ reports. Each misdemeanor charge carries up to a year in jail and a $6,000 fine if convicted.
  An arrest warrant was issued earlier today, and Russell surrendered to authorities shortly after, Hoover Police Chief
  
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