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• Gỏi vịt (duck salad) at Nhà Hàng Vietnam Restaurant

  02-05-2024 23:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. “The duck is better,” a server might tell you if you’re caught dithering between the gỏi gà and gỏi vịt at this […]
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• Closing time

  02-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  On Friday, November 17, members of the Berlin Union and the lawyer for the beloved Lakeview queer club met for what workers didn’t know would be their last bargaining session. Staff, party hosts, DJs, and patrons were riding the high from a successful four-week boycott. For months, the club’s owners, Jim Schuman and Jo Webster, […]
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• ‘Black Love Reigns Supreme’ at U of C’s Logan Center, Friday and Saturday

  02-05-2024 16:00
  
  A scene from the theatrical production, “Black Love Reigns Supreme” (All Photos courtesy of Praize Productions, Inc.)
  “Quote:” We want the audience to take away from this experience a profound sense of truthfulness and love within our culture, a genuine presentation of our stories. – Enneréssa LaNette Davis, CEO and Founder of PPI
  “Black Love” is a cultural movement and a concept within the Black community that is exhibited in romantic r
  
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• Bears Promote Tanesha Wade to Executive VP of DEI & Chief Impact Officer

  02-05-2024 15:00
  
  Following a transformative NFL Draft weekend, the Chicago Bears have taken another significant step to fortify their organization. The team has announced the promotion of Tanesha Wade to the role of executive vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion and chief impact officer, underscoring their commitment to these values.
  She will be promoted from her previous job as the Bears’ senior vice president of the DEI department. Tanesha Wade has been promoted to executive vice presi
  
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• ‘Minstrel Show Black’: Makeup Brand Slammed Over New Foundation Shade

  02-05-2024 14:00
  
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  A makeup company is facing backlash for releasing a “minstrel show black” shade of foundation amid criticism that its initial shade range wasn’t inclusive for people with darker complexions.
  The backlash against makeup brand Youthforia began after Golloria George, a Black beauty creator on TikTok, reviewed the company’s Date Night Skin Tint Serum last year. Of the 15 shades Youthforia released, George said none of them matched her skin, and she accuse
  
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• ‘Chicago is in my DNA’

  02-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The phrase “love letter” is often overused in reviews, but when author Arionne Nettles calls her new book “a love letter to the city that raised me,” it’s entirely fitting. In We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything, Nettles weaves her personal memories of growing up in Chicago with reporting and historical research […]
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• This Week In Black History May 1-7. 2024

  02-05-2024 05:00
  
  MAY 1
  1866—The two-day Memphis, Tenn., race riots, one of the most savage events immediately fol­lowing the civil war, begins. When it was over, former Confederate soldiers, angered by the loss of the Civil War and the new status for Blacks, had killed 46 Blacks and two of their White supporters, as well as raped five Black women and torched over 90 homes, schools and churches. In support of the rebel soldiers, local police arrest­ed hundreds of Blacks and not the Whites who were r
  
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