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• Mark, Ashley Tutson and Karlton Humes Team Up for Chicago Comedy Special

  07-10-2023 16:00
  
  Chicago natives Mark and Ashley Tutson are a talented husband and wife duo, bringing their first opportunity home to the city. The Tutsons are the innovative minds behind their Atlanta-based creative firm, the 1357 Agency. 
  On Saturday, Oct. 14, Comedian Karlton Humes, known for his hilarious and accurate church parodies, is teaming up with 1357 Agency to present Humes’ first-ever live comedy special titled “Church Anniversary,” which will be taped in front of a live audie
  
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• Minnesota County To Pay $12.2M To Black Man Who Lost Hands After Arrest

  07-10-2023 15:30
  
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  A Minnesota county will pay $12.2 million to a Black man who lost both of his hands and suffered a heart attack, stroke, and skin lesions after officials failed to administer proper care in jail, according to a lawsuit per the Associated Press.
  The settlement with Scott County stems from the August 2020 arrest of Terrance Dwayne Winborn in Minneapolis. Winborn was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving. His blood alcohol level came in at 0.13 percent at the Scott County ja
  
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• Entrepreneur Makes History, Launches First Black-Owned Credit Monitoring Company

  07-10-2023 15:00
  
  Photo: Quintel Sumrall, the visionary entrepreneur behind ISeeCredit.com (Photo, BlackNews.com).
  By BlackNews.com
  In a historic milestone for the financial and technology sectors, Quintel Sumrall, the visionary entrepreneur behind ISeeCredit.com, has become the first African American to own a credit monitoring company. His groundbreaking venture is set to reshape the landscape of identity theft protection and credit monitoring services.
  In a world where financial security and personal data prote
  
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• Questions Surround Death Of Black Woman Found Hanging In Tree

  07-10-2023 14:30
  
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  Questions still surround the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree in Orlando last month.
  Yolna Lubrin, 31, was found dead on September 28 hanging from a tree in the backyard of a home her family said wasn’t hers.
  The Orange County medical examiner said Lubrin’s cause of death is still under investigation. No autopsy has been released but police suspect Lubrin died by suicide.
  “While all death investigations are predicated upon the existence
  
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• Chicago City Council Votes to End Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers

  07-10-2023 14:00
  
  The Chicago City Council has given its approval to the One Fair Wage ordinance, marking a significant step toward eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers within the city over the next five years.
  The move makes Chicago the largest city in the country requiring tipped workers to make the full minimum wage.Beyond improving wages for tipped workers such as restaurant servers, bartenders, bussers, and runners—who currently earn just $9.48 per hour—the ordinance outlines an ann
  
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• Boptober, Rocktober, Frocktober?

  07-10-2023 05:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Uhhh . . . how is it October already? I swear it was just July. Starting the month with 80-degree days has me thinking, “Wow, what can’t this month do.”  Viva Acid10/5-10/9, workshops and events at Q Studios, 2328 N. Milwaukee, third floor. Performances include in-store DJ sets by Geto Mark and D. Strange at […]
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• Genesis Owusu makes ugly, beautiful funk for freedom

  07-10-2023 01:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Popular music has plenty of upbeat anthems that celebrate the performer’s beauty and success—think Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” or Olivia Rodrigo’s “All-American Bitch.” It also has lots of downbeat paeans to the performer’s pitifulness, a la Beck’s “Loser” or Radiohead’s “Creep.” Much less common are enthusiastic, danceable tracks that boast of the singer’s ugliness and smallness, which [&hellip
  
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• Mathy metalcore masters Botch bring their reunion run to Chicago

  07-10-2023 01:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When mathy metalcore bands such as the Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and Coalesce reigned supreme in the late 90s and early aughts, no one struck a balance between proggy virtuosity and hardcore aggression quite like scrappy Tacoma upstarts Botch. Formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002, the four-piece never reached the crossover popularity of those […]
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• Cosmic folk meets playful grooves at weekend festival Astral Autumn Daze

  07-10-2023 01:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Steve Krakow can’t be pinned down to one pursuit or even one name, and when he plans a festival, it creates its own niche. He performs music under the name Plastic Crimewave; he writes and draws about music for the Reader and his own publication, the Galactic Zoo Dossier; and he’s been organizing eclectic events […]
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• Cosmic folk meets playful grooves at weekend festival Astral Autumn Days

  07-10-2023 01:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Steve Krakow can’t be pinned down to one pursuit or even one name, and when he plans a festival, it creates its own niche. He performs music under the name Plastic Crimewave; he writes and draws about music for the Reader and his own publication, the Galactic Zoo Dossier; and he’s been organizing eclectic events […]
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