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• The butterfly in your throat

  07-09-2023 23:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My throat was slit. It was back in the dark ages of the 20th century, but if you take a close look at me you can still see the scar—a fine line running along the base of my neck, from ear to ear.  It’s the necklace I can’t take off, the trail of a scalpel. […]
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• Chicago’s First Poet Laureate Celebrated at Harold Washington Library

  07-09-2023 16:00
  
  Chicago’s first-ever poet laureate, avery r young, is poetry, music and possibilities. Even before he carried that title of eminence, young had actively worked to expand our understanding of where poetry can exist — beyond the usual spaces.
  Yet, that continues to be one of his objectives as Poet Laureate.
  “I would really like to just figure out the ways in which poetry just happens, not just in open mics or poetry readings or books,” young told The Chicago Defender back w
  
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• The couple at the center of Wellness are in love with an illusion

  07-09-2023 15:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a bone-chilling night in 1993, Elizabeth Augustine stands in a cramped Ukrainian Village venue sipping cheap beer, counting down the seconds until her date with a boy she has a razor-thin connection with can finally end.  As the aforementioned man, with middle-parted hair and John Lennon glasses drones on—because she may like music, but […]
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• Dead Lucid suture together postpunk and psych rock into tantalizing freak-outs

  07-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago rock trio Dead Lucid self-released their debut, titled simply EP, in 2016, and since then they’ve tightened up their bedraggled, bluesy psych-rock style by borrowing from classic postpunk. On their self-released third EP, May’s Vision, they summon an austere composure to compress their former fuzz and fury into newly sparse arrangements. The EP’s best […]
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• Davido Delivers Surprise Performance At Naomi Campbell’s PLT Runway Show

  07-09-2023 15:00
  
  In celebration of Naomi Campbell‘s new collection with PrettyLittleThing, Davido brought the house down with a surprise performance at the supermodel’s runway show.
  On Tuesday (September 5), the first day of New York Fashion Week, the Afrobeats artist hit the catwalk following the showing of Naomi’s 90-piece PLT collection. Davido performed several of his chart-topping hits, including “Fall,” “Unavailable,” “Blow My Mind,” and “Feel.&r
  
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• Austin’s Blk Odyssy merges eclectic influences into a fresh take on Black music

  07-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Blk Odyssy is the brainchild of singer and producer Sam Houston (aka Juwan Elcock), a New Jersey native who moved to Austin, Texas, in 2015. At first he explored Austin’s Americana scene, but then he carved out a niche in crooning, experimental neosoul rap, using the name Blk Odyssy. Working with guitarist Alejandro Rios, he’s […]
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• Black Man Wrongly Convicted Of Rape Exonerated On 72nd Birthday

  07-09-2023 14:45
  
  Photo: Innocence Project
  A Black man who was wrongly convicted of rape nearly five decades ago was exonerated on his 72nd birthday.
  Leonard Mack, now 72, had been trying to clear his name since he was convicted in 1975.
  “For 48 long years, I walked about society being labeled a rapist when I know I didn’t do it,” Mack said.
  Police previously said Mack, a Vietnam War veteran, matched the description of a man who tied up two high school students at gunpoint and raped one of them
  
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• This Week In Black History September 6-12, 2023

  07-09-2023 14:30
  
   
  September 6
  1865—One of the great White heroes of Black history, Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, first proposes an addition to the Freemen’s Bureau Act which would have required the confiscation of land from former slave owners and the redistribution to former slaves in “40 acre lots.” Although Stevens was at the time the most powerful person in the U.S. Congress and a friend of Blacks, he was unable to get the measure passed. The so-called “40 acr
  
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• I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times follows its road home

  07-09-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With vivid imagery and a staggering wit, Taylor Byas paints portraits of her childhood on the south side and the city in warm hues. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times leads her quest for self-discovery with grief, longing, and the late-night monologuing of a seasoned writer. With poems modeled after the likes of Patricia […]
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