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• La Jom Atenda shows the complexities of caregiving

  26-10-2023 18:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Plays about the relationships between caregivers and their clients aren’t new. The late Chicago playwright, actor, and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaumʼs well-received No One as Nasty, about a disabled woman and her caregiver, was produced by Victory Gardens back in 2000. Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize–winning Cost of Living also examined two pairs of […]
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• Ford Motor Co. and UAW Reach Historic Tentative Agreement

  26-10-2023 18:17
  Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union have arrived at a tentative agreement, a deal both entities have described as historic and unprecedented.
  UAW President Shawn Fain provided a glimpse of the agreement’s content on social media on Wednesday evening. However, a more comprehensive review is set to take place in upcoming meetings involving local union leaders and their respective members. The UAW National Ford Council, a body of elected local union leaders from various reg
  
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• A monster of a good time

  26-10-2023 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Grab your lab coat and walk this way to Mercury Theater Chicago for Young Frankenstein, the hilarious 2007 musical with music and lyrics by the legendary Mel Brooks, based on his beloved 1974 film of the same name. With a book written by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, it delivers on many of the same laughs […]
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• Highlands hijinks

  26-10-2023 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a clear day in Brigadoon, you can see Oklahoma. Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner’s 1947 Scottish romantic fantasia is set in a far more mystical and picturesque realm than the Oklahoma territory of 1906, yet there are undeniable points of narrative similarity. But the dramatic stakes in Lerner and Loewe’s musical (which was […]
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• Blackademics offers a course in code-switching

  26-10-2023 16:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Set in an uber-modern high-end restaurant, the three-person play Blackademics, written by Idris Goodwin, sets up a gilded cage match of the wits for two Black frenemies in academia. Newly tenured professor Ann (Jessica F. Morrison) overcompensates through authentic African garb for what she feels she lacks in “authentic” Blackness due to her upper-class background. […]
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• Remembering Richard Roundtree: His Life Before ‘Shaft’ Stardom

  26-10-2023 16:00
  
  Earlier this week, actor Mr. Richard Roundtree died from pancreatic cancer at 81. We reflect on Mr. Roundtree’s legacy by highlighting a 1971 Chicago Defender article that chronicled the then 28-year-old actor and model on the verge of stardom. 
  For his 1971 profile on Richard Roundtree, Chicago Defender journalist Dave Potter made a bold yet prescient declaration about the largely unknown actor.
  “Remember the name, Richard Roundtree, for if all goes according to plan, he will b
  
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• Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Sues Conservative Group For Intimidating Voters, Federal Trial Begins

  26-10-2023 15:55
  Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight organization filed a lawsuit claiming that a conservative organization intimidated voters. According to court documents, Fair Fight says that Texas-based True the Vote came to Georgia to intimidate voters during the 2020 election. 
  The organization announced it was challenging the eligibility of more than 364,000 Georgia voters. 
  The suit says True the Vote intimidated voters by recruiting volunteers to monitor ballots cast at the polls and offering up t
  
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• Mother Spent Months Looking For Son Who Was Ran Over By Off-Duty Officer

  26-10-2023 15:30
  
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  A Mississippi mother spent months looking for her son only to find out that police were hiding the truth behind his death.
  According to NBC News, Bettersten Wade discovered more than five months following the disappearance of her son, 37-year-old Dexter Wade, that he was fatally struck by a Jackson police car less than an hour after leaving home.
  Police were aware of the mother and son’s names but failed to contact her and let his body go unclaimed for months in a count
  
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• Georgia Teachers to Carry Guns in Schools: What Could Go Wrong?

  26-10-2023 15:18
  Lt. Governor Burt Jones is encouraging teachers to bring guns to school. On Wednesday, Oct. 25 Jones unveiled a plan to provide a $10,000 annual stipend for teachers to carry guns in schools and and would reward them with compensation to come to class armed after completing a firearms safety program.
  Georgia law already allows teachers and school staff to carry concealed firearms in schools with the approval of school officials. 
  Jones contends that the spate of school shootings across the
  
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• This Week In Black History Oct. 25 – Oct. 31, 2023

  26-10-2023 15:00
  
  JAM MASTER JAY
  October 25
  1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded.1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
  1958—An estimated 10,000 students led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, and labor leader A. Phillip Randolph, participate in a youth march for integrated schools in Washington, D.C.
  1976—One-time racist Gov. George Wallace grants a full pardon to Clarence &ldquo
  
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• New Luxury Venue Named ‘Bacchus Events’ Opens in Downtown Blue Island

  26-10-2023 14:45
  
  A new luxury vintage event venue has opened in downtown Blue Island, Illinois.
  Andrea Dillon, a well-established Chicagoland caterer, bought a vacated building at 2601 Vermont Street, Blue Island, Illinois and lovingly refurbished it.
  Now, she has become the first Black owner of a 140-year old historical building in Blue Island.
  Dillon, originally from New Orleans, named the venue “Bacchus” which in Greek mythology, means good wine, cheer and vegetation.
  Bacchus is a 3,500 squa
  
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