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• Lyric’s victorious Daughter of the Regiment

  06-11-2023 20:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Opera seasons are usually planned far in advance, so there was no way for the folks in charge of scheduling at Lyric to predict that not one but two actual wars would be raging when the curtain went up on their second production of the season, Gaetano Donizetti’s 1840 comic work, The Daughter of the […]
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• UTN and Aetna Better Health Partner to Launch Urban Youth ‘Beet’ Program

  06-11-2023 18:53
  
  Urban Transformation Network, spearheaded by President Don Patterson, embarked on a mission to transform abandoned lands into powerful resources. 
  From humble beginnings in a small box, the organization’s innovative approach led to the birth of Metro Farms. Today, Metro Farms has evolved into a significant organization that continues to extend helping hands to communities in profoundly impactful ways.
  UTN recently formed an influential partnership with the Mayor’s Office and Aet
  
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• City Picks Black Artist’s Design For Harriet Tubman Statue After Backlash

  06-11-2023 15:15
  
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  The city of Philadelphia is moving forward with a Black artist’s winning design of a Harriet Tubman statue for outside City Hall after facing backlash for originally selecting a white artist to create the monument.
  According to the Associated Press, artist Alvin Pettit won a competition against four other semifinalists to have his design featured in front of City Hall. Pettit’s “A Higher Power: The Call of a Freedom Freedom Fighter,” will portray Tubma
  
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• Making Connections That Can Help Save the Planet

  06-11-2023 15:00
  
  By Ben Jealous
  If we’re going to realize the climate benefits of historic federal support for clean energy and jobs approved in the last two years, connections are the key. And I’m not just talking about electrifying homes and buildings.
  We need to connect people to the benefits spread throughout the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. We do that by connecting people to others in the communities where they live and with the individuals, loca
  
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• Fitch Ratings Affirms City Colleges of Chicago’s A+ Credit Rating

  06-11-2023 14:30
  
  City Colleges of Chicago announces that Fitch Ratings has affirmed its credit rating of A+ and upgraded the community college system’s outlook from Stable to Positive.
  “We are pleased to see the improvement in our ratings outlook, a recognition of our efforts to successfully eliminate a structural deficit and rebuild cash reserves while at the same time posting above average post-pandemic enrollment gains, and continuing to grow in-demand programs and invest in critical student suppo
  
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• White Christians More Likely To Deny Racism Exists: Study

  06-11-2023 14:00
  
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  White Christians are more likely to deny that racism exists, according to a new survey.
  The survey, which was conducted by the Pew Research Center in April, asked Americans to answer the following question about race relations: “Which issue poses a more significant challenge to the country regarding race – the tendency to overlook racism when it’s present or the inclination to perceive racism where it doesn’t exist?”
  53 percent of Americans said
  
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• Abstract language and sacred knowing

  06-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s solo exhibition “Unsewn Time,” curated by Grace Deveney, letters and words are isolated, and punctuation marks are paired with incalculable calculations to form new sentences. Using her body as a writing instrument, Rasheed devises a new language that flows from the soul and a spiritual sense of knowing. “Kameelah Janan Rasheed: […]
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