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• Lawrence Agyei pays homage with ‘DRILL’

  07-05-2024 21:01 via chicagoreader.com
  When photographer Lawrence Agyei saw the South Shore Drill Team for the first time over a decade ago, he was enamored by the entire group—but knew he wasn’t yet ready to capture their electrifying energy. It was early in his photography career and capturing the team and what it represents for Chicago would be a […]
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• CalicoLoco finally sound as big as their shows on their debut album

  07-05-2024 20:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On May 10, CalicoLoco’s debut album, I Love Myself, finally makes its way from their downloads folder into the world. Over the past two months, these indie rockers have released three singles in anticipation of the album, dropping hints about the territory they’ll be covering—poppy emo grounded in heavy guitar tones.  Dani Robles and Zeke […]
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• Chicago mayor, alders propose missing women task force as CPD continues to sideline families

  07-05-2024 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, in conjunction with a group of majority Black women alders, is calling for the creation of the Mayor’s Task Force on Missing Women. A resolution, filed with the City Council in late April, recognizes the disproportionate impact the issue of missing persons has had on Black women in Chicago. The resolution […]
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• Goodman Theatre’s English reminds us that we’re more than our words

  07-05-2024 17:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hamid Dehghani remembers when he took the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). “After the exam, I just walked for miles,” the Iranian director says. “I felt so light, like I lost 20 pounds. I was so happy.”  English, now in a local premiere at the Goodman Theatre (in a coproduction with Minneapolis’s […]
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• Charlie Schmidt keeps John Fahey’s flame burning

  07-05-2024 17:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Few Chicagoans know that a living guitar legend is hidden away in the wilds of Skokie. Charlie Schmidt isn’t a blues firebrand or a metal shredder, but everyone who loves fingerstyle guitar should know his name.  Schmidt was a friend and sometime student of the late John Fahey, pioneer of the “American primitive” steel-string acoustic […]
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• United Black Male Educators Hosted ‘Educate, Empower, Elevate’ Conference

  07-05-2024 16:00
  
  CPS students in attendance at the United Black Male Educators’ “Educate, Empower, Elevate” student empowerment conference (Credit: Chicago Public Schools).
  On Monday, the United Black Male Educators of Chicago Public Schools hosted its inaugural “Educate, Empower, Elevate” student empowerment conference at Olive Harvey Community College. This landmark event aims to bolster outcomes among Black male students in grades 7-12 from across the District and the city.
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• Fani Willis Refuses To Testify Before Republican-Led Senate Committee Over Misconduct Claims

  07-05-2024 15:36
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will not cooperate with Georgia’s Republican-led special Senate committee. On May 6, Willis revealed that she will not testify before the committee which is investigating her for possible misconduct. 
  Willis appeared at the historic Big Bethel AME Church on Auburn Ave where she received endorsement by several religious leaders who are supporting her for re-election. During a press conference held outside of the church, Willis revealed that s
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: When the Black left treats you like an n-word in the street

  07-05-2024 15:00
  
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  In 2002, the Arkansas Hall of Fame inducted former Democratic President Bill Clinton as an honorary member. The hall acknowledged Clinton as the first non-Black individual.
  Toni Morrison, a famous novelist, may have given Clinton an extra stamp of approval with a prior honorary title. Morrison referred to Clinton as the country’s “first Black president” in The New Yorker in 1998.
  Morrison claimed that she first heard the idea in chats among Black men during the
  
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• South Side Newsroom Wins Two Pulitzers For ‘You Didn’t See Nothin’ Podcast And ‘Missing In Chicago’ Investigation

  07-05-2024 14:30
  
  South Side nonprofit newsroom Invisible Institute was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for Audio Reporting and Local Reporting. Today’s announcement follows the 12-person newsroom’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The team was a finalist for Audio Reporting for our Somebody podcast the same year. The central Invisible Institute reporters of both stories, Yohance Lacour and trina reynolds-tyler, began their work towards these investigations at the organization more than si
  
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• ‘Braiding Histories’ combines the past, present, and future

  07-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago is filled with architecture and design, from the iconic skyline to the art installations of the CTA. Victoria Martinez incorporates these elements and influences in her solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, “Braiding Histories,” part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago initiative, which supports events highlighting the city’s creative […]
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• ShotSpotter’s reverberations

  07-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In June 2022, the Illinois State Police inked a $362,000 contract with ShotSpotter. The agency planned to pilot the controversial gunshot detection system along eight miles of the Dan Ryan Expressway, beginning at Canalport, just north of Cermak, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and stretching south.  The prior year had been a particularly violent one—for the […]
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