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• Collaboraction plans a ‘House of Belonging’ in Humboldt Park

  09-05-2024 23:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Collaboraction Theatre Company first started back in 1996, it was like a lot of other emerging Chicago performing companies: ensemble-focused, itinerant, and mostly interested in presenting contemporary work. When Anthony Moseley took over as artistic director in 1999, he shepherded their annual Sketchbook Festival of short plays, which became the company’s calling card. Running […]
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• Reimagining Jewish dance music for a Palestinian cause

  09-05-2024 22:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Hannah Mira Friedland was a child, she held dance parties in the back seat of the family car on road trips. As the stereo played the Klezmatics or Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser, Friedland would make her Beanie Babies dance.  Friedland is still holding dance parties—now for humans—as a member of new Chicago klezmer ensemble […]
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• Tita Tootsie’s brings vibes of paradise to the next Monday Night Foodball

  09-05-2024 21:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tita Tootsie’s came to Chris Inumerable in a dream on the massage table. Last January, the founder of East Humbdolt Park’s Classick Studios was on an extended family vacation with his brother-in-law, DJ Coleman, a restaurant factotum who’d most recently managed the kitchen at Untitled. They’d been eating and drinking like gods at a swank […]
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• Queer justice

  09-05-2024 18:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Kevin Jennings was born, he says there was just a single state in the country where being in a same-sex relationship was legal: Illinois. This was before Stonewall. Before Obergefell. Before the AIDS crisis. Before sodomy laws were struck down.  “Being LGBTQ+ is a mental illness for which you can be put in an […]
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• PUBLIC NOTICE: Request for Qualifications – Procurement Planning Consultant

  09-05-2024 16:53
  
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• Former CPS Student Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith Talks Chicago School Board Run

  09-05-2024 16:30
  Che Rhymefest Smith (Photo Provided).
  Writer, rapper, artist, activist, entrepreneur, teacher and leader—these words aptly describe Che “Rhymefest” Smith. 
  Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Rhymefest’s life is deeply intertwined with the city’s rich culture. Having attended Bryn Mawr Elementary School (later renamed Bouchet Academy) and graduating from South Shore High School, Rhymefest’s educational journey provided firsthand insight into the
  
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• Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers, and screening could save many lives − if more people could access it

  09-05-2024 15:00
  
  Lung cancer screening typically involves a low-dose CT scan. Adobe Stock Photoby Nina Thomas, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Many medical organizations have been recommending lung cancer screening for decades for those at high risk of developing the disease.
  But in 2022, less than 6% of people in the U.S. eligible for screening actually got screened. Compared with other common cancer screenings, lung cancer screening rates fall terribly behind. For comparison, the screening rate
  
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• Man Pulls Gun On Pastor Mid-Sermon, Police Later Find Dead Body in Home

  09-05-2024 14:15
  
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  A Pennsylvania pastor had a gun pulled on him by a man who police later discovered had a dead body in his home.
  On Sunday (May 5), Glenn Germany was delivering a sermon at Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock when suspected gunman Bernard Junior Polite attempted to shoot him, per PEOPLE.
  Polite’s gun “failed to discharge,” allowing a congregation member and Germany to “subdue and disarm” him before anyone was injured.
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• This Week In Black History May 8-14, 2024

  09-05-2024 05:00
  
  MAY 8
  1858—The first play by an Afri­can-American writer is published. The play was titled “The Escape” and the author was William Wells Brown.1925—The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was found­ed. It would become the leading Black-led trade union organization in America. In addition to intro­ducing unionism to African Amer­icans, the ability to travel to cities throughout the country enabled the porters to become a major ve­hicle of communications
  
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