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• The Melanin Martha celebrates the sweets of the south at the next Monday Night Foodball

  13-09-2023 23:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Georgia Gilmore’s Club From Nowhere sold peach pie and pound cake to support the carpool system that sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Sixty-five years later, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, the Bakers Against Racism movement followed her path and took the ad hoc social justice bake sale worldwide. “Black folks, we […]
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• Don’t call Brighter Side of Darkness one-hit wonders

  13-09-2023 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve never liked the term “one-hit wonder.” This is partly because it’s often misused; I’ve seen Americans describe T. Rex as a one-hit wonder because “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” was Marc Bolan’s only stateside smash, but in the UK he had 11 top-ten hits in three years.  I also find “one-hit wonder” a […]
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• R&B Icon Karyn White Talks ‘Superwoman’ and City Winery Chicago Show

  13-09-2023 16:00
  
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  R&B singer and soul survivor Karyn White has what Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston have. They all can “sang,” but it’s something else. They have what’s called an “evergreen,” a signature anthem that echoes across generations. 
  Though she no longer resides with us in the physical realm, Aretha has “Respect.” Dionne has “Walk on By,” Chaka has “I’m Every Woman,&rdq
  
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• The Carr Report: Student loan forbearance ENDS! ‘On Ramp’ payments period EXPLAINED!

  13-09-2023 15:00
  
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  ‘SAVE’ student loan repayment plan BEGINS!
   
  Trying to stay up to date on what’s going on with student loans has been a juggling act. One week they’re discussing “payment pause.”  Another week they’re discussing “student loan forgiveness.” More recently they’re discussing a new student loan repayment plan being billed as SAVE—Saving on A Valuable Education.
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• 5 Ex-Memphis Officers Indicted On Federal Charges In Tyre Nichols’ Death

  13-09-2023 14:30
  
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  Five former Memphis police officers involved in the brutal beating and death of Tyre Nichols are now facing federal charges.
  According to ABC News, ex-officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III, and Desmond Mills Jr. were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges relating to the “deprivation of rights under color of law, including excessive force and failure to intervene as well as deliberate indifference, and conspiracy to witness-tampe
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Sept. 13

  13-09-2023 14:00
  
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• Chicago church part of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument 

  13-09-2023 01:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Content note: this story includes details of a violent hate crime against a teenager. From the first World War to the 1970s, more than six million African Americans migrated from the Jim Crow south to cities including Chicago. As documented by The Warmth of Other Suns author Isabel Wilkerson, the Great Migration “was not solely […]
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