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• Real Times Media Expands its Who’s Who In Black Footprint Following an Impressive 2023 Program

  13-03-2024 19:09
  Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit return to the 2024 programming schedule.
  Real Times Media’s, Who’s Who In Black, the premier platform celebrating excellence within the African American community over 35 years, is thrilled to announce its 2024 return with an expanded program.
  Who’s Who In Black relaunched in 2023 after a three-year hiatus brought about by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The events held in Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus were sold
  
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• City of Flint Held in Contempt for Failing to Meet Lead Pipe Settlement Deadlines

  13-03-2024 18:24
  A federal court held the City of Flint in contempt for violating a February 2023 federal court order requiring the city to reach certain milestones in its lead pipe replacement program.  
  The City of Flint had originally agreed to replace all its old lead pipes by early 2020, but it still has not completed that work. In addition, there remain almost 2,000 homes where residents have been living with damaged properties—some for years—caused by the lead pipe replacement progra
  
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• Shanta Nurullah brings the sitar to the Black avant-garde

  13-03-2024 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year I went to see grooving Tuareg guitar band Etran de L’Aïr at Constellation, and the opener was someone I hadn’t heard of before: Shanta Nurullah. Her calming set was 180 degrees from Etran de L’Aïr’s ecstatic trance rock, but it shared the same devotional spirit. I was immediately drawn in by her sitar […]
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• Riding the waves

  13-03-2024 16:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The same day I saw Aurora Real de Asua’s Wipeout at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, I read an essay by onetime Reader staffer Heather Kenny about women finding midlife empowerment in outdoor sports. It was serendipitous—even if Real de Asua’s play has more to do with women’s friendships and interior lives than their desire to conquer […]
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• F-U-N C-H-A-O-S

  13-03-2024 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s 2005 musical about a swarm of blooming, buzzing tween-age lexophiles began life as a fully improvised play, C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, created by Rebecca Feldman and performed by the New York–based comedy troupe, The Farm. Finn and Sheinkin transformed it into a fully scripted and scored Broadway musical twenty years ago, but the […]
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• Greek women talking

  13-03-2024 15:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Artistic director Susan V. Booth waited a good long time after rejoining the Goodman in 2022 to direct a show of her own, but it was totally worth the wait. Her production of Margaret Atwood’s “cabaret” telling of The Odyssey from Penelope’s point of view is just about perfect, beginning with her choice of Jennifer […]
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• Cerrando brechas en la cobertura médica posparto

  13-03-2024 15:37 via chicagoreader.com
  Después de que Kristen Nuyen diera a luz a su hijo en septiembre, recibió una visita médica gratuita a domicilio a través de Family Connects, un programa del Departamento de Salud Pública de Chicago (CDPH, por sus siglas en inglés) que colabora con hospitales participantes de toda la ciudad. Nuyen esperaba que la visita posparto […]
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• Simone Biles Set to Grace Chicago as Bears Sign Her Husband to a Deal

  13-03-2024 15:30
  
  Starting this fall, Simone Biles, the most decorated American gymnast in history, will be in Chicago a whole lot more. 
  The Chicago Bears inked her husband, safety Jonathan Owens, to a two-year contract. Owens signed with Chicago after playing with the rival Green Bay Packers last season. 
  Last year, Biles attended quite a few Packers games at Lambeau Field. So it follows that she will also be in the Soldier Field stands come September. 
  Owens is the team’s latest acquisitio
  
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• It’s OK to laugh

  13-03-2024 15:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s premier BYOB live arts venue—Elastic Arts—saw the debut of a new contemporary dance and musical performance by experimental pop trio Big Pal with Emily Craver on Friday, March 8. “High Energy News Music” is a sonic experience composed specifically for Elastic’s CLEAT (Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theatre) system. The CLEAT grid of speakers creates […]
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• Megan Capps aims to amuse

  13-03-2024 15:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The hallmark of an exceptional art show is that it can be appreciated on many levels—from the simple gratification of a pleasant sight to a sublime state provoked by deeper realizations. Add a sprinkle of humor and you have a winning recipe. Megan Capps’s “amuse-bouche,” on view at Cellar Door Provisions until April 20, offers […]
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• The birth of the 12 steps

  13-03-2024 15:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ronnie Marmo has been extremely candid about his struggles with addiction, especially in the context of playing Lenny Bruce, as he has for several years in his show I’m Not a Comedian . . . I’m Lenny Bruce, which is now back for a third time in Chicago since 2019. Playing at the Biograph in […]
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• Grandmother said

  13-03-2024 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Chicago Women Executives Champion Equity and Inclusion at iHeart Studio Event

  13-03-2024 15:00
  
  Photo – #5 – CAPTION: iHeartMedia Chicago’s International Women’s Day Soirée – Group of Attendees (All Photos courtesy of iHeart Chicago)
  In a dynamic gathering at the iHeart Chicago Sound Studio last week, Chicago Women Executives convened to amplify the importance of equity and inclusion in the workplace. The event was aptly titled iHeartMedia Chicago’s International Women’s Day Soirée.
  Hosted by iHeart Chicago and moderated by its on-air
  
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• Black Woman Says Her Boss Told Her She Was Too ‘Articulate’ For Promotion

  13-03-2024 13:30
  
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  A Black woman in North Carolina said she was turned down for a promotion because her boss told her she was too “articulate and sharp,” per theGrio.
  Chantel Adams, a senior marketing executive who earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, said she’s faced challenges in earning promotions despite her qualifications. Adams said she was once denied a promotion because she was told that: “I was so articulate and
  
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• Black Woman Woman Dragged Off Bus Before ‘Racially-Motivated’ Stabbing

  13-03-2024 13:15
  
  Photo: Jack Quillin / iStock / Getty Images
  Two people are in custody after a Black woman was dragged off a Seattle metro bus and stabbed in what authorities described as a “racially-motivated” attack.
  The Kent Police Department said officers responded to reports of a stabbing near the 800 block of Central Avenue South around 7:45 p.m. on March 7. The victim, identified as a 43-year-old Black woman who lives in Kent, told 911 dispatchers she was assaulted near a metro bus and the sus
  
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• The Carr Report: The IRS can’t touch this income!

  13-03-2024 13:00
  
  As I was thinking of a title for this article, MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” song started playing in my head. So I ran with it. The IRS is known for taxing all sources of income and all profits made from the sale of all consumer goods and services including profits made from the sale of stolen goods. You read that correctly! Tax laws require individuals to report all income, regardless of its source, including income obtained through illegal means.
  In this article, I w
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for March 13, 2024

  13-03-2024 13:00
  
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