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• CSO Mead Composer Jessie Montgomery Strikes Chord Within the Classical Academy

  02-06-2024 16:30
  
  The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery (Credit: Todd Rosenberg 2021).
  From Grammy win to inspiring future talent, Jesse Montgomery reflects on her tenure as CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence and the impact of her groundbreaking work.
  Jessie Montgomery was surprised to hear her name called during the 2024 Grammys for the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category.
  “I was genuinely surprised because it was my first nomination and such a huge category a
  
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• CPS Student Duchara Moody Earns Golden Apple Scholarship and Heads to U of I

  02-06-2024 16:15
  
  More than any other group, the high school graduates of 2024 faced unforeseen challenges that no other students in recent memory have had to face. They had to contend with the specter of the pandemic, the unfathomable loss of friends and relatives, either from Covid or other causes, and George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent fallout. They had to adjust to virtual learning while facing the threat of learning loss. 
  Amid numerous and nefarious challenges, many of these 2024 high schoo
  
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• A lesson on dissent from a Vietnam War protester who joined the US military – and then faced execution after his protest didn’t stop

  02-06-2024 15:00
  
  Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Imagesby Rodney Coates, Miami University
  During the late 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War erupted across the country, college campuses emerged as places of more than intellectual debate over U.S foreign policy and the country’s deeply racist history.
  Unlike the protesters against the Israel-Hamas War, many of the college-age demonstrators back then faced the very real
  
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• South Carolina Supreme Court Set To Have No Black Justices

  02-06-2024 14:45
  
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  South Carolina’s Supreme Court is set to have all-white justices for the first time in nearly two decades.
  According to reports, South Carolina will be joining 18 other states whose Supreme Courts are entirely white following next week’s election for a new justice.
  The report comes amid Chief Justice Don Beatty, South Carolina’s only Black justice, leaving the bench as he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 72. Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman was the only B
  
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• Innocent Man Freed After 12 Years: Darien Harris Fights for Justice and Accountability

  02-06-2024 00:22
  
  Wrongfully convicted at 18 due to false testimony, Darien Harris endured years of abuse in prison. With the help of the Exoneration Project, he now seeks to hold the system accountable and assist others facing similar injustices.
  By Ashleigh Fields
  Darien Harris was 18 years old when Chicago police arrested him on homicide charges.  
  Due to the false testimony of a blind man, Harris, a first-time offender, was charged as the shooter in a murder case. Star witness Dexter Saffold lied ab
  
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