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• Singer-songwriter Chaepter celebrates his first studio recording with a full-band show

  19-03-2024 19:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last week, Chicago multi-instrumentalist Chaepter Negro dropped his second solo album, Naked Era. Chaepter, who records and performs under his first name, grew up in central Illinois and started playing cello and piano at age six. “It was originally something I really loved to do, but nothing that I ever thought would be something I […]
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• The Justin Fields Trade And Why Black Chicago Bears Fans Are Not Okay

  19-03-2024 17:25
  
  Former Bears quarterback Justin Fields’ biggest supporters — Black people — are balancing reality with what could have been.By Evan F. Moore
  Black folks being recognized for their achievements — or as it’s called these days, “given their flowers” — over time has become historically fraught with anger and regret.
  Recently, I saw a film called “Beyond Their Years,” which featured the life-long pursuit of two Black men who wanted to be rec
  
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• The debut novel by Rowan Beaird is set on a Reno divorce ranch

  19-03-2024 14:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before I read The Divorcées, the debut novel by Chicago author Rowan Beaird, I didn’t know the fascinating history of Reno’s “divorce ranches.” From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Nevada’s relatively liberal divorce laws attracted thousands of married people, mostly women, to ranches where they would stay for six weeks to achieve the residency […]
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• Black NHL Player Wayne Simmonds Retires After Stellar 15-Year Career

  19-03-2024 14:30
  
  One of professional hockey’s most accomplished Black players hangs up his skates.
  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. 
  The North American Black hockey community ha
  
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• Black NASA Employees Go Viral After Sharing Headshots On Social Media

  19-03-2024 13:45
  
  Photo: Instagram
  A Black engineer sparked a viral trend after sharing his professional headshot for NASA.
  On Thursday (March 14), Tyrone Jacobs Jr., a component engineer for NASA, shared his official work photo on X, formerly Twitter.
  The post has since garnered 35 million views and over 200,000 likes with social media users applauding Jacobs for making a space for himself in STEM as a Black man with locs.
  Other Black NASA employees followed suit, posting their own professional headshots using
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Black-on-Black amnesia

  19-03-2024 13:00
  
  Last month, CNN contributor Van Jones appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and discussed the murder rates of young Black males across the United States.
  Maher remarked, “We do know that, for young Black men, gun homicides are the leading cause of death. And … that leading cause outstrips the next 15 causes combined … Also, Black men ages 18 to 25 die from gun homicides at a rate nearly 19 times that of White young men of the same age. And they’re not being
  
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• Chicago Area Superintendents and UNCF to Award 80 Scholarships on March 21

  19-03-2024 12:45
  
  Photo caption (L to R): Dr. Johnnie Thomas, Superintendent of Rich Township High School District 227 and President of the Superintendents’ Commission, Dr. Blondean Y. Davis, CEO of Southland College Prep High School and Superintendent of Matteson School District 162, Lisa Rollins, UNCF Regional Director, and Dr. Creg Williams, Interim Superintendent of West Harvey-Dixmoor School District 147 and Executive Director of the Superintendents’ Commission
  Eighty students will receive schola
  
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• Everything You Need to Know to Vote in the 2024 Illinois Primary Election

  19-03-2024 00:51
  
  Tuesday, March 19, is notable for two reasons: It marks the first day of Spring and the 2024 Illinois primary election. 
  President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been declared the presumptive nominees for their respective parties ahead of the November Presidential election. 
  However, Illinois voters, particularly those in Chicago, will get to decide highly consequential local races and a hotly debated real estate transfer tax. 
  Though early voting ended on March
  
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• Trumps Says There Will Be ‘Bloodbath’ If He’s Not Elected President

  19-03-2024 00:24
  
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  Former President Donald Trump has declared that there will be a “bloodbath” if he loses the 2024 presidential election.
  Trump made the comment on Saturday (March 16) during a rally held in Vandalia, Ohio to garner support for Republican Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno ahead of the state’s primary election on Tuesday (March 19), NBC News reports.
  The former president discussed the possibility of an increasing trade war with China over auto manufacturing before
  
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