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• Legacy of Inequitable Housing Access: How a Black Family’s Story Echoes Today’s Fight

  22-04-2024 20:00
  
  A Chicago Defender article from 1946 that chronicles the Hemmons family becoming unhoused.
  This is Part Three of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused: How Segregation Fueled a Homegrown Crisis, which is part of the “Healing Illinois” initiative. 
  The story of the Hemmons family is where racist policy, poverty and a lack of affordable housing options converge. 
  Carey Hemmons, his wife and 11 children were evicted from their South Side apartment in Chicago&r
  
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• Minhal Baig explores the dichotomy of Cabrini-Green in We Grown Now

  22-04-2024 19:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It has been more than ten years since the last of the Cabrini-Green high-rises—housing complexes that were built in 1942 to be affordable and safe housing for low-income residents—were demolished. While those houses have been destroyed, the families remain, and director Minhal Baig’s We Grown Now documents the history and rhythms of the people who […]
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• Chicago’s Enduring Legacy of the Black and Unhoused

  22-04-2024 18:00
  
  This is Part Two of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused: How Segregation Fueled a Homegrown Crisis, which is part of the “Healing Illinois” initiative. 
  Demetrius France, 55, is just 15 credits shy of earning his Associate’s degree. 
  “I started college in the early 1990s and studied electrical engineering and aviation at Florida Memorial University.” 
  When his heart led him to Chicago, he hoped to finish college, too. But life and a
  
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• Jonas Müller-Ahlheim’s art games

  22-04-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Traces, residues, and obfuscation are the small but major themes of the playful Jonas Müller-Ahlheim exhibition, “peekaboo,” on view at Ukrainian Village’s Patient Info gallery. At first glance, “peekaboo” appears sparse. Taking up the whole of Patient Info’s unique dermatologists-office-meets-white-cube interior are a few small, white plaster, minimalist sculptural forms hung on the walls, colored […]
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• Black and Unhoused: How Black Chicago’s Fight for Affordable Housing Echoes Through Generations

  22-04-2024 16:00
  
  This collage details how Black segregation from the past has fueled the homegrown crises of Black homelessness and affordable housing scarcity (Credit: Christa Carter-Williams).
  This is Part One of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused: How Segregation Fueled a Homegrown Crisis, which is part of the “Healing Illinois” initiative. 
  Two of the greatest works of literature have documented Black people’s struggle to attain stable, affordable housing in Chicago
  
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• ‘He Can’t Walk’: Cop Tries to Pull Paralyzed Black Man Out Of Car In Video

  22-04-2024 14:00
  
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  A viral TikTok shows a California police officer attempting to pull a Black man from his vehicle despite being told that “he can’t walk.”
  TikTok user Shante Butler accused the Stockton Police Department of mistreatment of her son. Butler shared a video in February of her son’s encounter with a Stockton officer.
  In the now-viral video, a man appears to be sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle as a cop grabs his hand and attempts to pull him
  
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• A love letter to punks of color

  22-04-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bianca Xunise’s graphic novel debut Punk Rock Karaoke is a love letter to the south side and punks of color everywhere. In 248 rapid-paced pages, Xunise tells a coming-of-age story centered on Ariel Grace Jones, an 18-year-old punk who spends the summer coming to terms with their ambition, changing friendships, and what it means to […]
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