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• Carlee Russell Found Guilty and Could Face Up to 1 Year in Jail for Kidnapping Hoax

  11-10-2023 23:06
  Carlethia “Carlee” Russell’s captivating story grabbed the nation’s attention as she disappeared following her report of a wandering toddler on a busy freeway late in the evening on July 13th. Her case underscored the ongoing conversation about missing Black women and children and the urgent need to bring attention to their disappearances. However, an astonishing turn of events revealed that nothing was as it initially appeared; the real crime was not a kidnapping but a c
  
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• Lucha Teotl brings bodyslamming storytelling to the Goodman

  11-10-2023 22:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pro wrestling fans take heed: a lucha libre play is now up at the Goodman Theatre that celebrates the lively art form and spectacle of Mexican pro wrestling, where técnicos (the good guys) and rudos (the bad guys) face off in weekly matches, settling old disputes and beating the ever-living stuffing out of each other […]
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• The Rooks cut a hall-of-fame garage-rock single but broke up in obscurity

  11-10-2023 18:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In August I said I thought the Secret History of Chicago Music might be running out of 1960s garage bands to cover. I’ve been a fan of the Rooks for ages, for instance, but I’d given up on writing a story because I couldn’t reach any former members to fill in the gaps in my […]
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• Peter Malmö gives a Wisconsin makeover to Pedro Páramo

  11-10-2023 16:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Considered a precursor to magical realism (Gabriel García Márquez claims that reading it gave him the key to mapping out the story for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo demands far more attention from the reader than its slim 120-plus pages seem to suggest at first. Not an easy breeze […]
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• Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Hughes Van Ellis Dead At 102

  11-10-2023 15:30
  
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  Hughes “Uncle Redd” Van Ellis, one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has died, per CNN. He was 102.
  On Monday (October 9), Ellis died in Denver, Colorado, according to a family statement shared by Oklahoma Rep. Regina Goodwin.
  “He died waiting on justice,” Ike Howard, his grandnephew, told CNN.
  In 1921, Ellis was just a few months old when Tulsa’s then-thriving Greenwood District, known by many as Black Wall Street, was dest
  
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• Soft light

  11-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Painter Scott Wolniak’s delightful new exhibition “Crosscurrents” at Goldfinch is a lot to take in. With nearly 20 works of various sizes hung close together in the modest space, the exhibition is like a salon-style dive into the visual deep. Viewers used to sparse white walls and serious square footage between works might find the […]
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Oct. 11

  11-10-2023 14:00
  
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• ‘Ebony Alert’ For Missing Black Children, Women Signed Into California Law

  11-10-2023 14:00
  
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  A California bill creating a statewide alert system to help locate missing Black children and women has been signed into law.
  According to Vibe, California Governor Gavin Newsome officially signed Senate Bill 673, known as the “Ebony Alert.”“California is taking bold and needed action to locate missing Black children and Black women in California,” state Sen. Steven Bradford, who authored the bill, said in a statement.
  The Ebony Alert will work similar
  
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• 100 Black Men of Chicago hosts 21st Annual College Scholarship Fair, Oct. 14

  11-10-2023 13:30
  
  The largest College Scholarship Fair targeting African American and Latino students in the Midwest is back again for its 21st year! 
  The 100 Black Men of Chicago will present its College Scholarship Fair Saturday, October 14, 2023 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Isadore & Sadie Dorin Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road. 
  Admission is free.
  The event is highly anticipated by scholars and their families as thousands of dollars in scholarship monies are awarded by an impressive list of partici
  
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• Best of Chicago 2023 Enhanced Listings

  11-10-2023 00:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Chicago Reader’s annual Best of Chicago is generated entirely by nominations from the community, and we’re thrilled to reveal the ballot on Dec. 13, 2023. Voting continues until 11:59 PM Jan. 14, 2024. Enhanced Listings All nominees can “enhance” their listing on the ballot. Enhanced listings provide additional information to voters: Business address, contact […]
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