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•  La compañía UrbanTheater sigue arraigada en Humboldt Park

  23-05-2024 23:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Read in English Stages of Survival es una serie ocasional sobre grupos de teatro de Chicago, que destaca sus historias y cómo sobreviven—e incluso prosperan—en un panorama que se ha vuelto decididamente más desafiante desde el cierre de COVID-19 en 2020. Hay compañías de teatro que llegan a los barrios por casualidad, a menudo dictadas […]
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• English provides lessons in identity and loss

  23-05-2024 18:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The galvanic power of language to create and destroy is easy to take for granted. Language defines how we think, how others perceive us, and how we engage with the world. So what happens when achieving your dreams means foregoing the mother tongue that governs your very thoughts? For the Iranian students in Sanaz Toossi’s […]
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• Vengeance is hers

  23-05-2024 17:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit has found many reimaginings since it was first produced in 1956. The story of a wealthy woman returning to the town that once scorned her after she became pregnant as a teenager has been retold by Israel Horovitz (The Widow’s Blind Date) and in a musical version (also called […]
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• ‘Prayer on the 9’: Pastor Hannah, Community Unite for Safer Chicago Summer

  23-05-2024 16:00
  
  Chicago, get ready to join Pastor John F. Hannah of New Life Covenant Church SE in the Grand Crossing community on Saturday, May 25, for their annual event, “Prayer on the 9.” 
  This essential gathering is an opportunity to kick off Chicago’s summer with much-needed prayer, compassion and hope for a safe summer. 
  As a former youth pastor and juvenile probation officer, Pastor Hannah has seen firsthand the impact of foundational trauma, which can lead to violence if una
  
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• Pritzker Targets Trump in Pre-DNC Media Walkthrough at United Center

  23-05-2024 15:00
  
  Almost three months ahead of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, organizers held a Spring walkthrough for local and national media members on Wednesday at the event’s United Center headquarters. 
  Those in attendance were not only treated to a tour and an overview of credentialing and logistics, but they also heard Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker rip into presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
  As expected, the Democratic governor touted President Joe Biden’s rec
  
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• Rep. Jasmine Crockett Trademarking Viral Clapback At Marjorie Taylor Greene

  23-05-2024 14:00
  
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  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) has moved to get her viral comment about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) trademarked.
  On Sunday (May 19), Crockett filed a trademark application to gain rights to her viral remark “BLEACH BLONDE BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY,” which she aimed at Greene amid a chaotic House Oversight Committee meeting last week, per USA Today.
  Lawmakers gathered on Thursday (May 16) to vote on whether Attorney General Merrick Garland should be held in contempt of C
  
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• This Week In Black History May 22-28, 2024

  23-05-2024 04:00
  
  PAMELA SUZETTE GRIER
  MAY 22
  1863—The War Department es­tablishes the Bureau of Colored Troops and began to aggres­sively recruit Blacks for the Civil War. The Black troops would play a major role in turning the tide of battle against the rebellious Southern slave states.1959—Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African Ameri­can general in the U.S. Air Force. His father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., had been the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
  MAY 23
  1921—“
  
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