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• Valerie Montgomery Rice: Making History, One HBCU at a Time

  26-03-2024 21:54
  Rice broke barriers as the first woman leader at two HBCU medical schools, and she’s committed to health equity and training more Black doctors.
  by Donnell Suggs, The Atlanta Voice
  There are only four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) medical schools in the United States — Morehouse School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Howard University College of Medicine, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
  Valerie Montgomery Rice has played a signific
  
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• Ladies Who Lit celebrates writing by women

  26-03-2024 19:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Book club meets Night at the Museum—sans dinosaurs, plus contemporary art—at the next event of Ladies Who Lit, an experiential book club that celebrates writing by women. Founded by Chicago writer and journalist Kaylen Ralph in 2019, the group hosts events that pair a book discussion with an activity complementing the book’s themes, such as […]
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• Lora Fosberg gets the last laugh

  26-03-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lora Fosberg made a name for herself baring the midwestern psyche in farcical installations replete with snippy, conversational bits of text. Her current show at Zolla/Lieberman, however, foregrounds a new set of innocuous midwestern landscapes. They may appear, as the exhibition text states, a “foil to [her] signature comedic existentialism,” but thorough examination reveals that […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Right-wing simpletons, self-immolators, and flame fanners

  26-03-2024 13:00
  
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  Constance Garnett translated the majority of Russian literature into English in the first half of the twentieth century. After translating Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, Garnett changed the title to The Possessed. Decades after Garnett’s death, translators changed the title back to Demons to remain true to Dostoevsky’s theme. 
  A Russian literary critic explained, “For Dostoevsky, ideas are living cultural forces that have the capacity t
  
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• ComEd, HIRE360 Accepting New Applications for Take Charge EV Pre-Apprenticeship Program

  26-03-2024 13:00
  
  Last year’s pilot training program returns to upskill more local residents for careers in the growing EV industry in Illinois
  ComEd and HIRE360, a nonprofit that connects underserved minority businesses and communities to jobs in the building trades across the region, recently announced the return of “Take Charge: EV Charging Pre-Apprenticeship” program.
  Piloted last year, the program was designed to prepare area residents with the skills training for construction trades roles
  
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• Disgraced cops still on the streets and in the courtrooms

  26-03-2024 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a balmy August day in 2020, Chicago police officers James Hunt and Washington Mina stopped a 38-year-old Black man named Rickey Turner after they claimed to see him commit several traffic violations while driving through the south side’s Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.  Citing the smell of marijuana, the cops searched Turner’s car. They found […]
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Homes Raided in Sex Trafficking Probe, Jet Found Overseas

  26-03-2024 02:29
  
  Federal authorities searched two properties owned by music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami on Monday (March 25) as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation in New York, according to law enforcement officials who spoke anonymously to The Associated Press.
  It’s unclear if Combs is the investigation’s target. Homeland Security Investigations stated they conducted law enforcement actions with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and local part
  
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• Editor’s note: why we cover so much art

  26-03-2024 01:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This issue is one of our seasonal looks at the diverse, well-populated, and active communities we enjoy in Chicago that are devoted to creating theater, visual arts, film, television, dance, drag, performance art, and comedy. We started running these special, arts-focused issues a few years ago as a way to protect some space for our […]
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• Spring Theater & Arts: A Big Screen Bounty

  26-03-2024 00:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s something a little different in this issue’s film section.  Usually, when these quarterly arts issues roll around, I as the film editor peruse pitches from a handful of writers and choose just two or three upcoming events in Chicago’s film scene for the Reader to preview. There’s often an anniversary that stands out or […]
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