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• Meet Lorell E. Lynch: A 2024 Women of Excellence Honoree

  21-03-2024 22:33
  
  Lorell E. Lynch, a communications professional known for her commitment to community impact, has been named a 2024 Women of Excellence honoree.Lynch serves as the Director of Public Affairs, Community Outreach, and Events at Allwyn North America (formerly Camelot Illinois), where she collaborates with community partners to bring about meaningful change.
  At the core of Lynch’s advocacy is a commitment to supporting Black media and businesses that actively contribute to community uplift. She
  
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• Theo’s Sondheim Tribute Revue triumphs

  21-03-2024 20:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In this wonderfully satisfying revue, Theo deploys its reliably exceptional voices to give the audience a sampling both deep and broad of the works of Stephen Sondheim. The program contains nearly unknown works like “Hymn to Dionysus” from The Frogs, which the book writer, Burt Shevelove (Nathan Lane shares the credit for the 2004 revised […]
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• Looking at Cloud Man from both sides now

  21-03-2024 20:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As her name suggests, Cloudia has been obsessed with clouds her entire life. In particular, she’s always wanted to see a legendary Cloud Man for herself. So she moves into a cabin on Cloud Mountain, where she finds clues everywhere: little bags, shoes, and socks made out of white fluffy material. One day, a big […]
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• The Scottish play, remixed

  21-03-2024 19:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Evan Jackson directs and co-adapts (with Tristan Brandon) a new version of Idle Muse’s 2009 reoriented riff on “the Scottish play.” Told from the point of view of three young sisters as they have visions of what they will tell Macbeth when they become old witches, this is a valiant attempt to invest ill-fated subsidiary […]
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• Barroom stories

  21-03-2024 19:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This is actually Two One-Acts On A Single Set, both directed by City Lit Theater artistic director Terry McCabe and with music direction by Shraman Ghosh. The first, Waiting for Tina Meyer by Kristine Thatcher with material by Larry Shue, is the sweet if fairly predictable tale of a man hoping to meet the woman […]
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• Review: Love Lies Bleeding

  21-03-2024 18:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Love Lies Bleeding is the queer moment. Set in 1989, the film centers on the romance between shy gym manager Louise (“Lou”) and ambitious bodybuilder Jackie (“Jack”) in a one-horse town where Louise’s family exercises a criminal stronghold. Critic Cat Zhang said it best in the Cut when celebrating the film for letting leads Kristen […]
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• Just a woman at Doc Films

  21-03-2024 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I thought better of you,” says Reikichi (Masayuki Mori) to Michiko (Yoshiko Kuga). [Note: all Japanese names in this piece will adhere to Western naming conventions, with the given name first and surname second.] Reikichi has pined for Michiko since before the war, but she has been revealed to have had a child by an […]
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• Ishmael Ali, cellist and cocurator of Elastic’s Improvised Music Series

  21-03-2024 16:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Improvising cellist and guitarist Ishmael Ali moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago in 2013 to study music at DePaul, and he’s lived here ever since—except for a brief stint in New York that ended early in the pandemic. Like most improvisers, he plays in lots of different ad hoc combos, but his steady groups include […]
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• Chicago’s First Woman Bishop Shares Her Journey on ‘Faithfully Speaking’

  21-03-2024 15:30
  
  Bishop Paula Clark talks turning faith into action, about hospitality and service, and a bit about Queen Bey.
  By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware
  The Right Rev. Paula E. Clark is the first woman and the first Black person to serve as the presiding prelate in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, having been elected in December 2020, and installed in September 2022. 
  Bishop Clark is also the inaugural guest to speak about her faith on the first episode of Word in Black’s new series, “Faithfu
  
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• Alabama A&M Student Hospitalized Following Shootout With Campus Police

  21-03-2024 13:30
  
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  A campus police shootout at Alabama A&M University left one student injured on Monday (March 18).
  According to Fox News, the shooting unfolded in the stairwell of a dorm hall while a campus police officer was conducting a routine security check.
  The officer was patrolling the fifth floor of the residence hall when he heard gunshots from a floor below. The officer and a student shot at each other in the stairwell.
  “Earlier today, there was an officer-involved shootin
  
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• Murmuration lets artists take flight

  21-03-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A beautiful historic studio building in Humboldt Park is host to a new gallery and book imprint helmed by artist Kat Bawden. Murmuration’s first show took place in December; the group exhibition “The Buried Line” featured Galit Aloni, Maximiliano Cervantes, Alan Huck. Next up is a solo show for photographer Eugene Tang titled “Awkward Intimacy,” […]
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• LA’s First Black Female Fire Captain Honored For Decades Of Service

  21-03-2024 13:00
  
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  A history maker of the Los Angeles Fire Department was honored for her service of over three decades.
  On Tuesday (March 19), d’Lisa Davies, the first Black female captain of LAFD, was recognized for her contributions to “equal career opportunities within the fire service and representing women in the African American community” during an LA Board of Fire Commissioners meeting, NBC Los Angeles reports.
  “This is why we’re here,” Fire Chief Kristi
  
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• This Week In Black History March 20-26, 2024

  21-03-2024 04:46
  
  MARCH 20
  1852—The leading Black nationalist of the 1800s Martin R. Delany publish­es his manifesto entitled “The Condi­tion, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.” Delany, who fought in the Civil War to end slavery, became frustrated with American racism and argued that Blacks were “a nation within a nation” who should consider returning to their Africa homeland. Delany, who became a doctor, would later advance an ar&s
  
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