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• Review: The Taste of Things

  15-02-2024 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  How exactly do you like your food porn? Actually, it doesn’t matter, because The Taste of Things will have you salivating within five minutes and will make everything you ever cooked or used for that purpose feel inadequate.
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• 35-Year-Old Black Woman Runs The World’s Largest Black-Owned Airline

  15-02-2024 22:00
  
  Photo: Western Air
  A Black woman running the world’s largest Black-owned and operated airline is looking to change up the aviation industry. A Travel Noire profile details the meteoric rise of 35-year-old Sherrexcia “Rexy” Rolle, Esq. and her family’s Bahamas-based airline Western Air.
  Rolle, who’s now the company’s first female President and CEO, said her parents conceived the idea for an airline business during a family trip to Florida. Pilot Rex Rolle and S
  
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• End of ShotSpotter, Black–Palestinian solidarity, fellowship for system-impacted writers

  15-02-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  ShotSpotter to end in September—or maybe sooner? It’s official. After months of dodging questions about the future of ShotSpotter, and days before the contract is set to expire, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced this week that the city is cutting ties with controversial gunshot detection technology. Johnson originally said Chicago would turn off ShotSpotter’s microphones after […]
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• Owners of beloved Chicago lesbian bar plan queer-focused event space

  15-02-2024 17:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The co-owners of beloved lesbian bar Dorothy are raising money so they can open a queer-focused wedding and events venue right above it. Zoe Schor and Whitney LaMora recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $75,000 so they can open Villanelle, a French-inspired venue. So far, the couple has raised more than $18,000. This Friday, […]
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• Former Dishwasher Opens Black-Owned Vegan Eatery in Downtown Chicago

  15-02-2024 16:30
  
  By Rashad Alexander
  There’s always that important birthday present everyone has received that they will never forget. On his Nov. 28 birthday this past year, Dame Dia got asked one of the best questions he had ever heard: It was whether he wanted to become the owner of a restaurant where he started out as a dishwasher.
  That birthday wish was granted when Dia became the owner of the 218 S. Clark location of Native Foods, a vegan restaurant chain. The now Black-owned establishment is Native
  
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• NASCAR Honors CPS for Innovative STEM Program at Drive for Diversity Awards

  15-02-2024 16:00
  
  One of the largest racing organizations in the world recognized Chicago Public Schools for implementing an innovative STEM education program incorporating motorsports elements.
  NASCAR recognized CPS and nine other honorees at its 16th annual NASCAR Drive for Diversity Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month. These recipients were recognized for being trailblazers and inclusion advocates.
  For CPS, the recognition resulted from what it accomplished off the track via a fruitful partnership with NA
  
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• Illinois Lottery Makes History: Launches First-Ever Lotto Ticket to Support UNCF

  15-02-2024 15:00
  
  In a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at empowering students and advancing educational opportunities, the United Negro College Fund and the Illinois Lottery unveil an extraordinary initiative: the “$200,000! Bingo Tripler” Instant Ticket. 
  This event promises to be a vibrant showcase of support for UNCF scholarships, featuring exciting announcements, the engagement of advocates and influencers, a VIP reception with live entertainment, and the grand reveal of a special lottery
  
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• Rachel Dolezal Fired From Teaching Job Over OnlyFans Account

  15-02-2024 14:30
  
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  Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president who pretended to be Black, has been fired from her teaching position in Tucson.
  On Wednesday (Feb. 14), Julie Farbarik, the Catalina Foothills School District’s Director of Alumni and Community Relations, announced the firing of Dolezal, who now publicly goes by the name Nkechi Diallo, according to KVOA.
  Farbarik said Diallo’s social media posts are “contrary to our district’s ‘Use of Social Medi
  
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• Black Door Salesman Blocks Bullet With Tablet During Racist Shooting

  15-02-2024 14:00
  
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  A Black door-to-door salesman was called the N-word and survived a shooting by blocking the bullet with his tablet device, according to NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Police confirmed the incident happened around 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 8 in the 3100 block of Purington Avenue in an East Fort Worth neighborhood.
  The victim, who worked for energy company Reliant for 10 years, said he was asking homeowners in the area about electric bills when he approached the suspect’s home. H
  
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• 11 Best Sex Apps To Find Casual Sex in 2024

  15-02-2024 09:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let’s be honest—sometimes a casual hookup is just what you need. A serious relationship can be great, but it can also be exhausting and stressful. And if you’ve just gotten out of one, especially a long-term one, the last thing you probably want to do is try plunging yourself into another one. People have long […]
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• This Week in Black History February 14-20, 2024

  15-02-2024 05:00
  
  MARIAN ANDERSON
  FEBRUARY 141760—The great religious leader Rich­ard Allen is born in slavery in Philadel­phia. After being required to sit in the back of a White church, Allen would go on to help found and become the first ac­tive bishop of the African Methodist Epis­copal Church. Today, the church, one of the largest predominantly Black de­nominations in America, has more than 1 million members in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and Africa. Allen died in 1831.1817&mdas
  
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