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• Chicago Reader presents Fashion Forward!

  23-04-2024 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Come mingle and listen to an insider’s conversation on fashion and journalism. We have an esteemed group of panelists, from SAIC, the Chicago Fashion Coalition, and our very own editor-in-chief. You’ll also get to view the designs of emerging fashion designers. This event is free for our Reader members and $15 for the general public. All proceeds […]
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• Biden To Deliver Commencement Speech At Morehouse College

  23-04-2024 21:30
  
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  President Joe Biden is set to deliver a commencement address at Morehouse College next month.
  On Monday (April 22), the White House confirmed that Biden will speak at Morehouse College’s commencement, which is scheduled for May 19 at 9 a.m., per 11Alive News.
  The decision to make Biden Morehouse’s commencement speaker has sparked faculty concern, NBC News reports.
  In an email reportedly sent by Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president fo
  
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• Miranda Winters and her band of women roar and sing on the debut Mandy album

  23-04-2024 20:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For years before Chicago singer-guitarist Miranda Winters cofounded beloved noise-rock group Melkbelly in 2013, she was already making music as a solo artist. In 2018 she released a cassette called Xobeci, What Grows Here? via Sooper Records where she performed all the parts herself; it emphasizes her nimble guitar playing and subtly emotional singing, which […]
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• Plastics Hi-Fi aimed for the radio and missed

  23-04-2024 17:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Younger folks don’t often believe me, but in the 1990s, the term “psychedelia” was usually a liability for an artist. It meant stuff like the Grateful Dead, who were extremely unhip at the time because everybody associated them with frat boys and hippies. When I moved to Chicago at the end of 1995, music you […]
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• United Negro College Fund and FM Omni-Channel Radio Station Partner To Hold First Radio-Thon, April 25

  23-04-2024 14:00
  
  The United Negro College Fund was founded on April 25, 1944. 
  In celebration of the 80th anniversary this year, the First UNCF Omni-Channel Radio-Thon, a 24-hour event to raise money for college scholarships, will be held Thursday, April 25, at 5 a.m. CDT, through Friday, April 26, at 5 a.m. CDT, on the FM Omni-Channel Radio Station ™.
  The digital station is available for download via the Apple or Google store. Donations can be made via the link on the App. Also, donate at www.OmniCha
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Victim response to UN’s 30th commemoration of Rwanda genocide

  23-04-2024 14:00
  Day of Remembrance of Rwandan Genocide Victims (Adobe Stock Illustration)
   
  The Rwandan genocide stunned the entire world in 1994. The Hutu majority systematically exterminated around 800,000 of the minority Tutsis in 100 days.
  Noam Schimmel, a Global Studies instructor at UC Berkeley, published an essay in 2022 titled What Caused the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi?  Schimmel stated that the Belgian colonialists pursued a strategy of divide and conquer that sowed the seeds of hatre
  
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• City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin Launches New Comprehensive Financial Education Program

  23-04-2024 13:30
  
  City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin recently announced that the City Treasurer’s Office has teamed up with Chase Bank, the Chicago Urban League, and TransUnion to create the Money Matters Institute (MMI), a new comprehensive financial education program kicking off on April 23. 
  MMI will offer Chicagoans of all ages and incomes with the money management skills and knowledge that will put them on a path to a brighter, more prosperous future.
  According to a recent study by Primerica, I
  
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• Black and Unhoused in Chicago: How Housing Segregation Fueled a Homegrown Crisis

  23-04-2024 00:06
  
  Almost seven out of 10 homeless persons in the city of Chicago are Black. They are either living under someone else’s roof, temporarily staying at a shelter or living on the streets. 
  However, experts say that it is no coincidence that, despite comprising nearly 30% of the total population, Black people are overrepresented among the city’s unhoused population. 
  The “epidemic” of Black homelessness in Chicago echoes back to the discriminatory policies that were i
  
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