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• Celebrating Law Roach: Fashion Icon, Image Architect From the South Side

  18-02-2024 16:30
  
  Within the realm of fashion’s most influential figures, few shine as brightly as Law Roach. As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s essential to spotlight this living legend who hails from the South Side of Chicago. His journey from being a local boutique owner to becoming an internationally acclaimed stylist and fashion icon is not just a story of success; it’s a narrative of resilience, creativity and passion.
  Before diving into the fashion world, Roach studied psychology a
  
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• NHL Player Wayne Simmonds Retires: A Legacy of Black Excellence on Ice

  18-02-2024 15:30
  
  It is very hard to grasp that after playing in over 1,000 National Hockey League regular season games and notching 526 career points in 15 seasons, Wayne “The Train” Simmonds recently announced his retirement. 
  Simmonds, regarded as one of the most prominent and revered Black NHL hockey players of all time, is hanging up his skates. 
  His career has been widely admired by the North American Black hockey community because, in a sport where there haven’t been m
  
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• Deliberations Restart In Trial For Ex-Cop Charged In Casey Goodson Jr Death

  18-02-2024 14:15
  
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  Jury deliberations have again commenced in the trial for a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, per the Associated Press.
  Ex-deputy Jason Meade, who is white, is facing charges of murder and reckless homicide in the Dec. 2020 shooting death of Goodson Jr.
  Meade shot Goodson Jr. six times, with five of those shots being in the back, as he entered his grandmother’s home, police previously said. The form
  
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