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• Media Burn hosts a historic symposium

  16-04-2024 21:26 via chicagoreader.com
  In an age in which distinctions between broadcast and streaming or video and digital are increasingly meaningless, it can be easy to forget just how revolutionary the technology of video was when it was introduced.   Prior to the availability of cameras like the Sony Portapak in the late 1960s, capturing moving images was the […]
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• Nurse T Honors National Nurses Week with Second Annual Future Nurses Program on May 4 in Detroit for Kids 5-15

  16-04-2024 21:06
  Teberah “Nurse T” Alexander also announces the launch of the Future Nurses Scholarship for minority students
  Teberah Alexander, RN, BSN, also known as “Nurse T,” announced today that the second annual Nurses Program for children 5-14 years of age is open for registration. The event will take place on Saturday May 4 from 1-5 pm at Renaissance High School (6566 W. Outer Dr. Detroit, MI 48235) as part of National Nurses Week.
  The free program gives children a hands-on view o
  
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• Motel Breakfast celebrate a diverse but cohesive post-lockdown album

  16-04-2024 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Motel Breakfast front man Jimmy Drenovsky founded the indie-rock five-piece in 2017, while at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He’d met most of his bandmates—guitarist Mick O’Donnell, keyboardist Conor Brennan, and drummer Jesse Nasadowski—growing up in Chicago’s south suburbs. When the band got together, though, O’Donnell and bassist Drue deVente were at the University of Wisconsin […]
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• Review: The First Omen

  16-04-2024 20:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 1976 classic The Omen is a terrified reactionary fever dream in which the rebellious, untrustworthy youth bring about the apocalypse through an assault on the hierarchical verities of church and state. Director Arkasha Stevenson’s prequel/sequel The First Omen neatly and wittily inverts the moral valence. In her film, it is the church itself, fearful […]
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• Fad2Fresh has become an Andersonville staple

  16-04-2024 20:14 via chicagoreader.com
  Doors open to toy cars, an old arcade machine, racks of vintage 70s sweaters, and the crooning voice of Zapp founder Roger Troutman. In the corner of the small vintage shop sits Alexandria Jones’s most prized possession: a 1990s poster of Michael Jordan and Spike Lee. Lee is caught suspended in midair, attempting (read: failing) […]
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• White liberal guilt meets inconvenient truths in The Thanksgiving Play

  16-04-2024 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Growing up mixed Indigenous (Cherokee on my dad’s side), I always had an understanding of U.S. history that my peers didn’t. While my family celebrated Thanksgiving every year, my dad made a point of teaching me about what the pilgrims actually did to people like me hundreds of years ago. However, I didn’t really understand […]
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• Chicago Sky Draft Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, Creating Fan Buzz

  16-04-2024 16:00
  
  A “Most Outstanding Player” and the Bayou Barbie are coming to “Skytown.” 
  In Monday night’s WNBA Draft, the Chicago Sky selected former University of South Carolina star Kamilla Cardoso and the equally electrifying Angel Reese from Louisiana State University, with the No. 3 and No. 7 picks, respectively. 
  “I’m super excited to compete. Work hard, and let’s win,” said Reese in a video clip that appeared on X.  .@Reese10Ang
  
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• White Man Charged With Murder After Black Teen’s Leg Found In Park

  16-04-2024 14:00
  
  Photo: Milwaukee Police Department, GoFundMe
  A white man was arrested after authorities found the remains of a missing Black college student in a Milwaukee park. On Friday (April 5), Maxwell Anderson, 33, was charged with homicide, mutilation of a corpse, and arson in the murder of 19-year-old Sade Robinson, according to CNN.
  A criminal complaint obtained by reporters said Robinson told her co-workers she planned a first date with Anderson at a local seafood restaurant where he used to work. Sh
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Tennessee repeals local police reform: was the repeal Republican paternalism?

  16-04-2024 14:00
  
  Members of Memphis’ SCORPION unit were behind the brutal beating of a suspect. City of Memphis via AP
  George Lakoff’s book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Con­servatives Think, makes a dis­tinction between left and right through parenting approaches. He modeled the left after a nurturing parent and the right after a strict parent. A nurturing parent over­protects to prevent undesirable outcomes, while a strict parent prepares for them but acknowl­edges their in
  
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• Civil Rights Groups Want Baltimore Bridge Renamed Due To Slavery Ties

  16-04-2024 13:30
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  Civil rights groups are urging political leaders to rename Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge following its collapse last month.
  According to NBC News, the caucus of African American Leaders, whose members include various civil rights groups like the NAACP and National Coalition of 100 Black Women, voted last week to petition the Maryland state government to reconsider the name of the Baltimore bridge.
  Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,&
  
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