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• The art of access

  17-08-2023 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Sunday, August 13, from 1 to 4 PM, the Art Institute of Chicago hosted Cripping the Galleries, a series of live gallery activations through the lenses of crip culture, access, and belonging by Chicago dance artists in collaboration with Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Art and Culture and the Museum of Contemporary […]
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• Media’s Strange Treatment of Missing Black Women

  17-08-2023 22:12
  
  Despite the Carlee Russell hoax, Black women go missing disproportionately. Where are the news stories about them?
  by Hiram Jackson
  In July, the nation was gripped by the strange case of Carlee Russell, the 29-year-old Alabama woman who falsely claimed to have been abducted and held captive for more than 48 hours. The damage of falsely reporting a crime, especially crimes against women, is obviously a stain on her reputation. But moreover, it undermines the efforts and the urgency to invest
  
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• Equity Jeff Awards announce nominees

  17-08-2023 21:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Amid the wave of stories about multiple crises and closings in the regional theater world, the announcement of the nominations earlier this week for the annual Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards (but you can just call them “the Jeffs”) is a welcome reminder of how much great work has been created on Chicago stages over the […]
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• Review: Strays

  17-08-2023 20:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Director Josh Greenbaum and writer Dan Perrault team up for neither of their best work with Strays, a lackluster crude dog comedy whose blessedly short run time is its most redeeming feature.
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• Review: Passages

  17-08-2023 20:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Passages, New York-based filmmaker Ira Sachs’s tempestuous love-triangle drama, feels like a precious anomaly within the landscape of contemporary American cinema.
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• Review: Blue Beetle

  17-08-2023 20:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is a recent idiosyncratic, smart superhero movie about family and togetherness. It’s called Encanto. I’d suggest watching it and skipping Blue Beetle entirely.
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• Troy Pryor’s XL Film Fest Spotlights Local Talent & Industry Legends

  17-08-2023 16:00
  
  It takes an extraordinary person to be an innovator. You must have a combination of skill, commitment and the right network. 
  Meet Troy Pryor, the millennial man who took on the challenge of bringing a homegrown XL Film Festival to Chicago, presented by his company Creative Cypher. The XL Film Festival will feature current and veteran industry professionals like Robert Townsend, Jackie Taylor, Lil Rel, George Daniels, Louis Carr, and more this weekend, August 18-20.
  Chicago Defender: Why wa
  
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• Afro Nation Detroit: 5 Strong Musical Reasons You Need to Go

  17-08-2023 15:30
  
  This weekend, Black recording artists — from Lagos to Los Angeles — will gather in Detroit for an international music festival of epic proportions, one that the Midwest region has not seen before.
  This event is called Afro Nation, the largest Afrobeats music festival in the world, founded by creative entrepreneurs Obi Asika and Smade in association with BBC 1 Xtra. 
  After playing in places like Portugal, Ghana and Puerto Rico, Afro Nation will come to Bedrock’s historic Do
  
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• Walgreens & CISCRP Emphasize the Importance of Clinical Trials at Expo

  17-08-2023 14:00
  
  The recent Black Women’s Expo in Chicago was all about uplifting Black women by providing them with the tools and resources necessary to lead healthier, more fulfilled lives.
  From the sponsors to the exhibits and informational sessions, the three-day event was about the betterment of Black women physically, mentally and spiritually.
  One point of emphasis during the Expo was the importance of addressing the gap in Black women’s participation in clinical trials, where they are severely
  
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• This Week In Black History August 16-22, 2023

  17-08-2023 06:00
  
  ISAAC HAYES 
   
  AUGUST 16
  1922—Author and investigative reporter Louis E. Lomax is born in Valdosta, Ga. Little is known today, but in the 1960s Lomax was one of the most prominent Black journalists in America. He was renowned for his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement and his investigative reporting. He died mysteriously in an automobile accident near Santa Rosa, N.M., on July 30, 1970. One urban legend is that his car was forced off the road by persons working for the FBI bec
  
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• Drag performers join Berlin Nightclub employees in protest

  17-08-2023 01:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At 8:30 PM on the first Friday of August, prominent drag performer Irregular Girl was putting on her lashes, making a home cocktail, and waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up for her monthly event, Strapped (Berlin Nightclub’s premiere dance party catering to lesbians of all genders), when she decided to cancel the show. […]
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