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• Why Black History Month Should NOT be Celebrated Without Talking Mental Health

  07-03-2024 23:25
  
  Throughout Black History Month and beyond, the role African Americans have played and continue to play in history was recognized and honored. The month has always been a chance to celebrate the rich cultural traditions and accomplishments of the Black community, while also raising awareness about ongoing disparities deeply rooted in American history.  
  It is always a disservice to highlight Black History Month without also shedding light on the mental health crisis that continues to disprop
  
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• Don’t Celebrate Black History Without Talking Mental Health

  07-03-2024 23:25
  Throughout Black History Month and beyond, the role African Americans have played and continue to play throughout history was recognized and honored. The month has always been a chance to celebrate the rich cultural traditions and accomplishments of the Black community, while also raising awareness about ongoing disparities deeply rooted in American history.  
  It is always a disservice to highlight Black History Month without also shedding light on the mental health crisis that continues to
  
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• Review: Problemista

  07-03-2024 22:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No one forgets their worst boss. They linger in memory like a nightmare or intrusive thought, altering your life for better or worse, but undeniably, they change your life. Elizabeth Ascencio is the archetype of the worst boss imaginable—an art-world outcast desperate to keep her cryogenically frozen husband’s legacy alive. (It’s pertinent that I mention […]
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• Judicial elections, summer jobs, Church of Scientology

  07-03-2024 21:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The infamous Chicago cop running for judge A Chicago police officer running for judge in a district that spans Edgewater to Streeterville has a long history of misconduct and dishonesty, an Injustice Watch investigation found.  Lieutenant John D. Poulos, who’s running for the bench in the 20th subcircuit, fatally shot two people (including one person […]
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• ‘A distinct, broad, and local American perspective’ colors Hubbard Street’s Of Hope

  07-03-2024 17:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the house darkens before curtain in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s (HSDC’s) program Of Hope at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s Edlis Neeson Theater, a recording of artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell recites the company’s new mission—“to awaken the human spirit through contemporary dance”—and invites the audience to participate in an energetic exchange with the […]
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• Solar Intentions should feel like ‘a little midwest cozy hug’

  07-03-2024 17:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The founder of Hooligan Magazine, a Chicago-based arts-focused publication, Martinez is also the owner and founder of Solar Intentions, an astrology-themed sober bar slated to open around the end of spring or summer.
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• State Appeals Court Greenlights Vote on Luxury Property Tax for Homeless Services

  07-03-2024 15:30
  
  Chicago voters will soon decide on a proposal to raise a one-time tax on luxury properties to fund services for homeless people. 
  State appeals court judges cleared the way for the measure to be on the March 19 ballot after overturning a previous rejection from a Cook County judge late last month. Moreover, with early voting already starting, all votes will count. 
  If approved, the measure would increase the city’s real estate transfer tax on properties valued over $1 m
  
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• OPINION: Protect Black Girls in the Sex Trade, Not the Pimps Who Sell Them

  07-03-2024 15:00
  
  By Brenda Myers-Powell  
  Growing up in Chicago, abuse was the norm. 
  My friends and I routinely witnessed violence and we experienced it for ourselves. As a young girl I remember thinking, at least the prostitutes are being paid — when I get abused, I have nothing to show for it. 
  That perspective led to me being purchased at age 14. After 25 years of being trafficked between pimps across the Midwest, I fought to get out and now, all these years later, I fight to help o
  
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• Rich Township Celebrates Prominent Illinois Women in Appreciation Gathering

  07-03-2024 14:00
  
  Rich Township Supervisor and Democratic Committeeman Calvin Jordan will be joined by the Rich Township Board of Trustees and over 200 female business leaders, elected officials and civic and clergy leaders to honor powerful women throughout Cook County as they collectively launch Women’s History Month in Cook County.
  Supervisor Jordan has consistently lauded the enormous impact women have had in Cook County and statewide government.
  “The most profound change in American politics toda
  
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• Over $100,000 Raised For Black Man Who Donated Prison Wages To Gazans

  07-03-2024 14:00
  
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  A GoFundMe campaign raised over $102,000 for a Black prisoner who donated his 13-cent-per-hour prison wages to civilians in Gaza.
  Filmmaker Justin Mashouf told The Washington Post the incredible story began when his incarcerated Muslim friend, who was identified as “Hamza” to protect his identity, wanted to donate money to Gaza relief efforts amid the gruesome Israel-Hamas War.
  When Mashouf received Hamza’s pay stub, he was shocked all of his $17.71 janitorial w
  
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• This Week In Black History March 6-12, 2024

  07-03-2024 05:00
  
   
  BILLY ECKSTINE
  March 6
  1857—Perhaps the most thoroughly racist decision ever rendered by a U.S. Supreme Court is released on this day—the Dred Scott decision. Scott and his wife, Harriet, had sued in St. Louis Circuit Court claiming they were free because their slave master had taken them from a slave state to the free territory of Missouri. However, in a majority opinion written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney the court ruled: 1) Blacks, be they slave or free, were not and co
  
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