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• Former NFL Player’s Mother Found Dead, Son Remains Missing

  19-09-2023 23:52
  
  A former NFL player is missing, and his mother was found dead near a creek behind her Maywood home. 
  Police have ruled the death of Myrtle Brown, the 73-year-old mother of Sergio Brown, a homicide. Myrtle’s body was discovered on Saturday, and her son remains missing. 
  An Instagram story recently surfaced that appeared to show Sergio rambling about his mother in the aftermath of her death.
  Maywood police told ABC7 Chicago that they are looking into the authenticity of t
  
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• Melody Angel brings tough-minded, celebratory blues to Chicago Live! on Navy Pier

  19-09-2023 22:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This concert is something of a homecoming for Chicago blues guitarist and singer Melody Angel, who’s wrapping up the first major tour of her career in support of her latest self-released album, Indie Blues Girl, which came out in June. By Angel’s own account, the album represents an affirmation of identity and a celebration of […]
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• The Reader’s Guide to World Music Festival Chicago 2023

  19-09-2023 22:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 20. July 13, 2023
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• Hammered dulcimer player Joel Styzens celebrates a lushly orchestrated new solo album

  19-09-2023 21:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Gossip Wolf first became acquainted with multi-instrumentalist Joel Styzens via his remarkable hammered dulcimer playing on the Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble album III, which Reader writer Bill Meyer praised in May for its attempts at “musical transcendence.” As you might expect from that record’s shimmering acoustic textures and accessible melodies, Styzens’s own compositions play out across […]
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• Gratuity included

  19-09-2023 20:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A proposed ordinance moving through the complicated world of city council committees would require businesses to pay their tipped employees—like bartenders, bussers, and servers—at the statewide $15.80-per-hour minimum wage instead of the local $9.48-per-hour subminimum wage.  The proposal, first introduced in July, had languished because of business pressure. But it’s been given new life in […]
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• Cold Waves XI presents four days of dark music to support mental health

  19-09-2023 19:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Cold Waves festival was founded in Chicago in 2012 as a memorial for local sound engineer and musician Jamie Duffy, who’d played in industrial groups Acumen Nation and DJ? Acucrack. It began as a one-day concert packed with the darkwave and industrial music that Duffy loved, and it raised money for his family and […]
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• The sacred and profound in Stephen Burks’s ‘Spirit Houses’

  19-09-2023 18:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Each morning I make my way to the large east-facing windows overlooking the Harlem River. Sage, photos of my Beloveds, candles, water and items too sacred to name adorn my makeshift altar—an antique wooden liquor stand turned ‘spirit house.’ . . . Imbued with the stories it holds and lives it has lived, my altar […]
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• ASALH’s Upcoming Conference Defies Florida’s Stance on Black History

  19-09-2023 16:30
  
  This week, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History will host its annual conference in a state led by a governor who has staked his political profile on being the most prominent opponent to the nonprofit organization’s stated mission: the teaching, promotion and research of African American life and history. 
  The venerable, Chicago-born organization will host its 108th Annual Conference from Sept. 20-24 in Jacksonville, Florida, led by Governor Ron
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: It’s not the car thieves—it’s the…cars?

  19-09-2023 15:00
  
  CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON
  Conservatives don’t say, I told you so, when progressive policies backfire in Democratic cities; they say, you get what you vote for.
  On January 1, 2020, New York’s experimental no-cash bail system went into effect. A week later, elected officials had second thoughts after they heard stories of suspects’ being set free and committing new crimes.
  Conservatives said, you get what you vote for.
  The Oakland Police Department announced a few months ago
  
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• White Principal Speaks Out After Low Test Score Assembly For Black Students

  19-09-2023 14:30
  
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  A Florida elementary school principal is speaking out after she resigned over an assembly that exclusively targeted Black students for their alleged low test scores.
  Donelle Evensen was the principal of Bunnell Elementary in Flagler County when Black students in fourth and fifth grade were pulled out of class last month for an assembly that blamed them for the school’s low scores on standardized tests. According to reports, students were told that if they didn’t g
  
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• [UPDATED] RICJ Racial Justice Writers’ Room Launches Cohort 2

  19-09-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which publishes the Chicago Reader, has launched the second cohort of the Racial Justice Writers’ Room. Six early- to mid-career journalists will work for eight weeks on racial-justice related reporting projects under coordinator Judith McCray. The Racial Justice Writers’ Room is part of RICJ’s Racial Justice Reporting Hub and […]
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• RICJ Racial Justice Writers’ Room Launches Cohort Two

  19-09-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which publishes the Chicago Reader, has launched the second cohort of the Racial Justice Writers’ Room. Six early- to mid-career journalists will work for eight weeks on racial-justice related reporting projects under coordinator Judith McCray. The Racial Justice Writers’ Room is part of RICJ’s Racial Justice Reporting Hub and […]
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• Best Sugar Daddy Websites For Sugar Babies To Meet Sugar Daddies (2023)

  19-09-2023 08:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A sugar daddy is always looking for his sugar baby, and vice versa. These are the top sites where sugar daddies and babies connect for real sugar relationships.
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• 2 Black Models Found Dead In Their LA Apartments 2 Days Apart

  19-09-2023 00:28
  
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  Families of two Los Angeles models are concerned that there is a serial killer on the loose after the pair were found dead within days of each other, per KTLA.
  Thirty-one-year-old model Maleesa Mooney was found dead on Tuesday (September 12) in her luxury apartment in Bunker Hill. Police conducted a welfare check after Mooney stopped answering her family’s calls and texts.
  “When a week went by, we just knew something was off,” Bailey Babb, Mooney’s cousin,
  
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