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• Watch: A Conversation with Men of Excellence

  16-05-2024 21:58
  
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• Shaker Barbeque beefs at the next Monday Night Foodball

  16-05-2024 18:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’re looking at 100 percent USDA prime brisket there, friendo, smoked over post oak for 14 hours until it melts like beef butter. Just like your daddy did. And by your daddy, I mean Daddy Mike Shaker of Shaker Barbeque, the former fine-dining cook turned central Texas-style smoker. He’s like the Miles Davis of barbecue: […]
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• Maritime movies at the Music Box

  16-05-2024 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In recent years, I’ve watched several of Peter Weir’s films—Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977), and The Mosquito Coast (1986)—and have rather liked them. He’s Australian, which may […]
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• Mayor Johnson On What He’s Done for Black Chicago After First Year: Part 2

  16-05-2024 16:00
  
  In this one-on-one, Nicole Jeanine Johnson sits down with Mayor Brandon Johnson as he reflects on his first year in office and what he plans to achieve moving forward. Below is part two of the full transcript, with appropriate edits for clarity. 
  Read Part 1 here.
  Q: What have been some of your biggest learnings? What would you have done differently?  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson: One of the things that I’ve learned over this year is that the remarkable resilience of the
  
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• UNCF To Honor Eight At ‘A Mind Is…’ Gala, June 15

  16-05-2024 14:30
  
  As a major event during the year-long 80th anniversary celebration of UNCF (United Negro College Fund), UNCF Chicago will recognize seven extraordinary individuals and one corporate supporter at its “A Mind Is…” (AMI) Gala, at 7 p.m., on June 15, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Visit uncf.org/Chicago.
  Rev. Otis and First Lady Monica Moss of Trinity United Church of Christ will receive the AMI Alumni Award. Ill. Senate Assistant Majority Leader, Sen. Mattie Hunter (3rd District);
  
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• $5.8M Settlement Reached Over Racism Allegations Against Chicago Water Dept

  16-05-2024 14:00
  
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  The city of Chicago has tentatively agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the Water Department of fostering a culture of racial discrimination and harassment, CBS News reports.
  In the lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2017, 12 current and former Black employees of the Water Department alleged that they were humiliated, harassed, denied opportunities for advancement and additional pay, and threatened daily” by white supervisors and co-workers.
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• This Week In Black History May 15-21, 2024

  16-05-2024 05:00
  
  MAY 151911—Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation’s leading Black fraternities, is founded on this day on the campus of Indiana University by 10 young men led by Elder W. Diggs and By­ron K. Armstrong.
  1942—The 93rd Infantry is acti­vated and assigned to combat in the Pacific. It thus became the first African American division formed during World War II.
  MAY 16
  1868—The United States Senate fails by one vote in securing the two-thirds vote needed to convict Presi­
  
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• Dr. Donald Suggs: Wake up, Black voters. Don’t let Trump’s lies fool you

  16-05-2024 04:00
  
  by Dr. Donald Suggs
  ST. LOUIS AMERICAN—The fact that exit polls showed that Donald Trump received 9 percent of the Black vote in 2016, the highest number since George Bush in 2000, and then won 12 percent in the presidential race in 2020 should be a cause for concern.
  Moreover, some recent polls surprisingly showed that if the presidential election were held today, 17 percent of Black voters say they would vote for Trump, and even more troubling, 20 percent say they would vote for someone
  
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• Mayor Johnson On What He’s Done for Black Chicago After First Year: Part 1

  16-05-2024 00:54
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Nicole Jeanine Johnson to discuss how, in his first year, he made specific and intentional investments in Chicago’s historically divested Black community and the tension caused by migrant spending. Below is part one of the full transcript, with appropriate edits for clarity.
  Q: What do you regard as some of your biggest accomplishments? 
  Mayor Brandon Johnson: Serving in this capacity this first year has really been the joy of this particular phase in my
  
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