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• Ex-NFL Player Sergio Brown Arrested on Murder Charge in Mother’s Death

  12-10-2023 22:18
  
  Former NFL player and Proviso East High School football star Sergio Brown was arrested Tuesday in Southern California to face first-degree murder charges in the death of his 73-year-old mother. 
  The San Diego Police Department, along with other local and federal authorities, took Brown into custody as he was re-entering the U.S. through San Diego from Mexico, according to authorities. 
  The agencies acted after a warrant was issued for the death of his mother, Myrtle Brown.
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• ‘Young Love’ is heartwarming family saga on Max

  12-10-2023 22:00
  
  “Young Love” Credit: Photo courtesy of Max
  by Magrira, NY Amsterdam News
  Matthew A. Cherry stands as a beacon of inspiration, a testament to unwavering determination. While history may remember his Oscar win, I recall the humble beginnings of the Kickstarter campaigns and raw passion that fueled his dreams. 
  Cherry’s transformative journey has taken his Oscar-winning, dialogue-minimal 6-minute animated short, “Hair Love,” and evolved it into a mesmer
  
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• Review: Eric LaRue

  12-10-2023 20:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago playwright Brett Neveu’s 2002 play Eric LaRue is one of the most haunting and bleak experiences I’ve had in the theater, with final moments that have never left my memory. The film version (directed by Michael Shannon, Neveu’s fellow ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, in his feature directing debut) keeps that same […]
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• From cab culture to throuples with the Destinos festival

  12-10-2023 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What Modesto “Flako” Jimenez misses the most about his days as a cabdriver in New York City are the conversations with his passengers, fellow cab drivers, and even the silent riders who just wanted to get from point A to point B.  “Even that gave me the moment to paint my story. Like, why are […]
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• Paden Taylor: The Black Evanston H.S. Hockey Player Breaks Barriers

  12-10-2023 16:00
  
  By Isi Frank Ativie
  Photos by Mark Marich
  Since the 1960s, the Evanston Township High School Wildkits hockey program has taught many Black kids to achieve greatness on and off the ice. From Carlos Matthews, the first Black player to join the Wildkits’ organization during the late ’60s, to Ari Sushinski, the first Black girl to play on the boys’ high school varsity team two seasons ago, the program welcomes all players regardless of color. 
  Now the Wildkits boast its newest
  
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• This Week In Black History October 11-17, 2023

  12-10-2023 15:00
  
  October 11
  1887—Alexander Miles patents a major safety improvement to the elevator. Miles did not invent the elevator. But he made it safer with an automatically closing door which prevented people from accidentally falling down elevator shafts.
  1890—Black inventor Charles Orren Bailiff patents the shampoo headrest.
  1939—The NAACP organizes the NAACP Education and Legal Defense Fund, which goes on to win many important legal battles guaranteeing civil and educational rights for
  
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• No Punishment Recommended For Cops Who Fatally Shot Black Man In Kitchen

  12-10-2023 14:18
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  A judge has recommended no punishment for the officers who tased, shot, and killed 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick in his kitchen, per News12.
  Trawick was killed in 2019 after he locked himself out of his apartment at a supportive housing facility in the Bronx. The 32-year-old called 911 and allegedly falsely reported that the building was on fire.
  The Fire Department initially responded to the call and opened his door without incident. Surveillance video shows Trawick carrying a
  
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