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• Lil Wayne, Dancehall Sensation Shenseea Added to Afro Nation Detroit 2024 Lineup

  21-05-2024 23:48
  
  Afro Nation Detroit celebrates global Black culture in one of the world’s most historic music cities, and international superstars will converge in Detroit for the second annual Afro Nation Detroit – the country’s largest Afrobeats concert – which takes place Aug. 17-18.
  Afro Nation announced on May 21 that Lil Wayne and Shenseea have been added to this year’s event, joining an already star-studded lineup of local and Afrobeats artists including Kash Doll, Kizz Dani
  
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• Rest in power to cellist Octavia Reese

  21-05-2024 22:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I met Octavia Reese at Cafe Mustache in 2021, and from the start she seemed too good to be true. There’s just no way to see someone so multifaceted, magnetic, and accomplished without thinking it’s some kind of ploy, a fantasy projected onto a silver screen.  Even after I followed Octavia on social media, it […]
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• Blind Adam & the Federal League pair punk rock and softball this Sunday

  21-05-2024 18:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Sunday, May 26, punk-adjacent local hot-sauce makers Soothsayer and Americana-tinged local punk band Blind Adam & the Federal League host the Chicago Sunday Softball Spectacular. The event includes a 16-inch softball game in Union Park that starts at 2 PM, followed by an all-ages concert two blocks north at Cobra Lounge whose doors open […]
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• Los blancos tienen a Emily Dickinson, los mexicanos a José Olivarez

  21-05-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Read in English La primera vez que conocí a José Olivarez fue en 2018, mientras yo era organizadora con Brown and Proud Press (BPP). BPP organizó una serie de eventos que llamamos “Cumbia & Stanzas”, donde los poetas compartieron el escenario con varios DJs. Estábamos tan emocionados de darle la bienvenida a Olivarez, quien amablemente […]
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• Bears CEO Hosts Business Leadership Council Meeting at Soldier Field

  21-05-2024 16:00
  
  World Business Chicago Board Vice-Chair Charles Smith with in discussion with Chicago Bears Team President and CEO Kevin Warren (Credit: Erika Bracey Photography).
  The Business Leadership Council recently held its Q2 General Membership Meeting at the iconic Soldier Field. The event was hosted by the Chicago Bears and the team’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Warren. Attendees were treated to an enlightening conversation with Warren and World Business Chicago Board Vice-Chair
  
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• BREAKING NEWS: April Verrett elected 1st Black president of SEIU

  21-05-2024 15:30
  
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  April Verrett has been elected as the first Black president of the Service Employees International Union. The announcement was made today, May 20, at the SEIU convention in Philadelphia.
  Verrett currently serves as international secretary-treasurer of the 103-year old union, which represents nearly 2 million workers in health care, property service and government service.
  Verrett is a Southside Chicago native, who has a long history of working on behalf of union workers. Her gra
  
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• The President’s Visit to Detroit Was as Much Anti-Trump as it Was Pro-Biden

  21-05-2024 15:02
  President Joe Biden’s trip to Detroit Sunday, May 19, marked his second official trip to the city this year. The first came in February, when he stopped to meet with UAW leaders as a follow-up to his 2023 visit to stand on the picket lines with striking auto workers.
  This visit looked a little different. He still stopped at a local business – CRED Café – and he still met with local elected officials and clergy like he did on his previous visit, but his agenda was clear:
  
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• First Black Astronaut Candidate Becomes Oldest Person To Reach Space

  21-05-2024 14:30
  
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  Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old man set to become America’s first Black astronaut decades ago, finally made it to space, NPR reports.
  On Sunday (May 19), Dwight traveled to space on the New Shephard rocket through Blue Origin, a space exploration company founded by Jeff Bezos. Dwight made the roughly 10-minute trip to space alongside venture capitalist Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, the founder of a French craft brewery, entrepreneur Kenneth Hess, aviator Gopi Thotakura, and Car
  
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• Revisiting the crime of the century

  21-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Long-form writing and long-distance running are a natural pair: sweaty, solitary, self-driven sports that, when going poorly, turn you into a deeply unpleasant person to be around, but when going well, give you a high you’ll chase for the rest of your life. Sometimes, you hit a trancelike state, and the miles or words flow […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: There’s lies, darn lies, and crime statistics

  21-05-2024 14:00
  
  In April 2015, a Black man died in the back of a police vehicle in Baltimore, sparking weeks of protests and rioting. Black Lives Matter activists told the media that White racism was the source of “state-sponsored violence.”
  Conservatives argued that internal problems in Black communities, such as Black-on-Black violence, were more serious than external issues. The BLM activists accused conservatives of blaming the victims while disregarding systemic racism.
  While BLM activists and
  
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