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• April Gibson: Chicago Poet’s New Book Talks Race, Motherhood and Mississippi

  12-05-2024 16:00
  
  Poet, Mother, Educator, Author and South Sider April Gibson releases her new book, The Span of a Small Forever (Photo Provided).
  This Mother’s Day weekend, the Chicago Defender celebrates dynamic Black women excelling in their careers while guiding and nurturing their families.
  As Mother’s Day approaches, let’s take a moment to honor the extraordinary gift that is April Gibson. She is a mother, poet, writer, professor and the author of “The Span of A Small Forever.”
  
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• 7th Annual Engineering Competition Showcased Chicago Students’ Innovation in ‘Advanced Autos – Driving Towards Innovation’

  12-05-2024 14:00
  
  Project SYNCERE hosted its 7th annual ENpowered Games on April 26 at Wintrust Arena. This year’s competition, themed “Advanced Autos – Driving Towards Innovation,” convened over 400 students from 13 Chicago-area schools to build on the excitement around autonomous design, such as the technology Tesla used for its autopilot vehicles. Student teams competed in two challenges:Advanced Autos Challenge: Teams designed autonomous cars using the engineering design process to nav
  
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• Black Teen Who Said Cop Threatened Him For Filming Mom’s Arrest Gets $185K

  12-05-2024 13:30
  
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  A Black teenager has been awarded $185,000 after he accused a Louisiana deputy of interfering and threatening him for recording his mother’s violent arrest, ABC News reports.
  De’Shaun Johnson, then 14, was at home with his mother, Teliah Perkins, when St. Tammany Parish deputies alleged she rode a motorcycle without a helmet. Perkins’ attorneys said the allegation was baseless and never prosecuted.
  Perkins’ encounter with deputies turned violent as she
  
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