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• In Memory: Bessie Houston

  17-10-2023 22:43
  
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• Macie Stewart gives her solo songs their grandest canvas yet

  17-10-2023 22:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In September 2021, Macie Stewart of Finom released her debut solo album, Mouth Full of Glass. She enriched its gentle, intimate songs with opulent strings and horns, but she’s infrequently performed those arrangements live due in part to the difficulty of bringing them to the stage. She assembled a sextet for a pair of release […]
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• Italian four-piece Messa bring their exploratory doom to Chicago

  17-10-2023 21:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Messa’s music embodies all the classic elements of occult rock and doom: thick, heavy guitars; warm, sparse production; slow, spacious arrangements; and a powerhouse vocalist (in this case Sara Bianchin) who conjures a world of emotions with the turn of a phrase. But rather than stick with tradition, the Italian four-piece use it as a […]
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• Jimmy DeSana’s luscious suburban wastelands

  17-10-2023 20:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you want to experience the body as an object of disruption amidst suburban wastelands, look to the images of Jimmy DeSana. The Detroit-born photographer was a fixture of the East Village art scene in 1980s New York, and his work demonstrates a studied awareness of gay image makers and forefathers like Andy Warhol and […]
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• Making waves

  17-10-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The view that unions are a hostile force within a workplace is fundamentally incorrect. Creating a union is an act of love: love for your work, love for your colleagues, and love for the institution that means a great deal to many people.”  This is a view that came to the forefront of my conversation […]
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• Black Leaders Express Outrage Over the Murder of 6-Year-Old Boy in a Chicago Suburb

  17-10-2023 15:30
  
  Black leaders from Chicago and beyond had issued statements over the brutal, hate-fueled stabbing death of a six-year-old boy in a Southwestern Chicago suburb.
  Wadea Al-Fayoume, who had recently had a birthday, died Saturday after being stabbed dozens of times. Authorities eventually arrested the family’s landlord, Joseph Czuba, who is accused of stabbing and killing the child and critically injuring his mother, 32-year-old Hanaan Shahin, Saturday morning. 
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• Oprah Considered Running With Mitt Romney To Stop Trump Reelection: Report

  17-10-2023 14:30
  
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  Oprah Winfrey reportedly considered running with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on a unity ticket in 2020 to prevent Former President Donald Trump from being reelected.
  Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins, author of the upcoming book “Romney: A Reckoning,” said the senator told him that Oprah suggested they run together in the 2020 presidential election “to save the country,” according to book excerpts obtained by Axios.
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Are Florida’s Black Churches Really Teaching Black History?

  17-10-2023 14:00
  Vintage illustration shows a religious service in America among a diverse African-American congregation. Getty Images Stock Photo
  A few months ago, the Florida State Board of Education released its new African American history standards. A section of the curriculum examined the various duties and trades of slaves. The document then instructed educators to include how slaves developed skills that, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
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• Mayor Johnson Sends Delegation to Southern Border to Address Migrant Crisis

  17-10-2023 13:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson is sending a small delegation of state and city officials, faith and philanthropic leaders to the Southern Border to get a better handle on the migrant crisis.
  That delegation will be led by Beatriz Ponce de Leon, the Deputy Mayor of Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights.The group will travel to Texas cities such as El Paso, San Antonio, McAllen and Brownsville, locations identified as the primary points of departure for new arrivals who come to Chicago by bus and air.&nbs
  
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