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• House veteran Craig Loftis needs help to keep the music going at the Lodge

  12-09-2023 21:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In late August, veteran Chicago house DJ and organizer Craig Loftis launched a GoFundMe to try to save the Great Lakes Elks Lodge in Washington Park from closure. Loftis says the building is more than 100 years old, and that the Elks have occupied it for 86 years. He also runs an underground house club […]
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• Lose your car, but keep the debt

  12-09-2023 18:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It feels like something I don’t have much power to prevent. Like an occasional mosquito bite that you can’t control, it’s just in the air. Except that mosquito sucks $100 from you here and there. Eric Hoskins Eric Hoskins has never owned a car in Chicago. The slew of expenses car ownership incurs in the […]
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• UChicago Launches Initiative to Help Combat Gun Violence Across America

  12-09-2023 15:45
  
  Members of the CVI Leadership Academy cohort with officials and dignitaries (Photos by Tacuma Roeback).
  A unique initiative from Chicago strives to tackle the agonizingly complex issue of gun violence at home and in metropolises across America. 
  On Monday, the University of Chicago Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy welcomed its first cohort of leaders from 21 cities nationwide. These leaders are coming together to transform communities of color by addressing the cycles of v
  
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• UChicago Launches Initiative to Combat Gun Violence Across America

  12-09-2023 15:45
  
  Members of the CVI Leadership Academy cohort with officials and dignitaries (Photos by Tacuma Roeback).
  A unique initiative from Chicago strives to tackle the agonizingly complex issue of gun violence at home and in metropolises across America. 
  On Monday, the University of Chicago Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy welcomed its first cohort of leaders from 21 cities nationwide. These leaders are coming together to transform communities of color by addressing the cycles of v
  
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• Viral Video Of Asian Fraternity Strolling Has Black Twitter Buzzing

  12-09-2023 15:00
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  A predominantly Asian fraternity at the University of Oklahoma has gone viral after a video showed them strolling to Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More.”
  In the viral video, members of Tau Kappa Omega appeared to move in unison in a line through a crowded auditorium. Tau Kappa Omega was established in 2002 at OU as the first Asian interest fraternity, according to the organization’s website.
  “It is an organization for anyone with an interest in the history
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Larry Elder, fatherless homes, and executive decisions

  12-09-2023 14:30
  
  LARRY ELDER
  In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon Johnson, published The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, which became one of the most controversial documents of the 20th century.
  The Moynihan Report claimed that the welfare state’s gradual expansion harmed Black family structures and that the high proportion of families headed by single mothers made it difficult for them to achieve economic parity with the white majority. Accordin
  
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• Death Of Gay Black Man Found Facedown On D.C. Street Ruled ‘Accidental’

  12-09-2023 14:00
  
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  Officials ruled the death of a gay Black man “accidental” after he was found facedown on a street in Washington, D.C., per NBC News.
  According to D.C.’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Ernest Terrell Newkirk, 55, died on May 28 of “acute ethanol intoxication” with “hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease” and “end-stage renal disease of unknown etiology” as contributing factors.
  Newkirk was found dead
  
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