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• Donald Trump Found Guilty: Becomes First President In American History To Be Convicted Of A Felony

  30-05-2024 23:19
  Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records prior to the 2016 election. Trump is now the first president in American history to be convicted of a felony. 
  Trump was involved in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election in connection with concealing hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
  After being convicted, Trump maintained his innocence and untruthfully claimed that President Joe Biden was the reason he was found guilty. 
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• VONtv Premieres CBS 2 Chicago Dorothy Tucker’s Special Report

  30-05-2024 20:12
  
  Dorothy Tucker’s program, “Investigating Injustice: The Shocking Truth About Black Women And Crime In Chicago” airs this evening on VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network. 
  VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network will premier award-winning journalist Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago’s special investigative report on the enormous impact of crime on Black Women in Chicago. 
  The two-part program, Investigating Injustice, will air Thursday May 30
  
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  30-05-2024 20:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• It’s an all-Indigenous cookout when Ketapanen Kitchen three-peats at the next Monday Night Foodball

  30-05-2024 17:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jessica Walks First nailed it on Top Chef: Wisconsin a few weeks ago. The chef behind Chicago’s all-Indigenous Ketapanen Kitchen wasn’t competing. Rather, she was sitting at the judge’s table during episode nine’s Elimination Challenge—along with Kristen, Tom, Gail, and Minneapolis chef Sean Sherman—when Adalina executive chef Soo Ahn presented “roasted butternut squash, huitlacoche puree, […]
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• How Chicago forgot about its blues history

  30-05-2024 17:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When it comes to the blues, sometimes it’s the same old story, same old song.  Imagine for a moment that you’ve just arrived in Chicago, and you go looking for its blues history. You figure it’ll be easy to find evidence of it—it’s one of the most famous things about the city. You’d be wrong.  […]
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• Q&A: Marvin Sapp Talks Live Recording Event in Chicagoland This Friday

  30-05-2024 16:00
  
  The 11-time Grammy-nominated gospel legend returns to record his 16th album at Valley Kingdom Ministries.
  This Friday, one of the world’s most revered Gospel recording artists is about to have a homecoming back in the Chicagoland area where family, friends, history, music, love and support reside. 
  Marvin Sapp, the ardent and soulful 11-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, is recording his 16th album this Friday evening at Valley Kingdom Ministries in Oak Forest.
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• Young Girl Berates Cops Who ‘Falsely Accused’ Mom Of Theft In Viral TikTok

  30-05-2024 14:00
  
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  A young child is going viral after she stood up for her mother who she said was falsely accused by police of stealing sunglasses.
  In a now-viral TikTok video, the mother-daughter duo appeared to be standing outside of a store as the child yelled at New York Police Department officers for allegedly making false theft accusations.
  “Leave my mother alone,” the young girl shouted.
  In the video, the theft suspect was described as a Black female with long braids and a
  
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• 100 Best Phone Chat Line Numbers With Free Trials in 2024

  30-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Who wants to swipe when you can just talk? Here's a list of the top 10 chat lines with free trials you can call to meet someone over the phone.
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• ‘If the culture doesn’t change, it’s going to remain the same’

  30-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In early March, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a $900 million plan to demolish and rebuild the crumbling Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers over the next five years. The plan sits on the back of a report by CGL Companies, a firm contracted by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to assess the conditions of the […]
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• This Week In Black History May 29 – June 4, 2024

  30-05-2024 05:00
  
  ANGELA DAVIS raises her fist in a Black Power salute after being introduced by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17, 1972. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)
  MAY 291854—Escaped slave and aboli­tionist Sojourner Truth delivers her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Conven­tion in Akron. Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, had been physically and sexually abused by various slave o
  
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• Emil Ferris communes with Uptown’s ghosts

  30-05-2024 00:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is a ghostliness shrouding Uptown. Even in daylight, its presence lurks and lingers, like at Graceland Cemetery, home to the sculpture Eternal Silence, whose hooded figure is said to foretell death to anyone brave enough to gaze into its shadowy eyes. That cemetery, and St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery just a mile north, both abut […]
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