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• Oddball hip-hop band Mother Fortune hit the stage to celebrate a new EP

  11-06-2024 20:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Thursday, June 13, idiosyncratic Chicago hip-hop group Mother Fortune drop their third release, Ma, Don’t Look Back. This wild EP emphasizes the band’s chemistry and “live in the room” interplay, in a clear break from the relatively studio-oriented material of their first two albums, 2020’s Mama Ain’t Dead and 2022’s Mommy Is Missing.  Rapper […]
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• Parachute Journalism, Gatekeeping, and Incel Behavior Form Anti-WNBA Alliance

  11-06-2024 16:30
  
  By Evan F. Moore
  One of my first assignments as a freelance sports reporter early in my career was to cover the 2014 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship Game between Stanford and Loyola. 
  Outside of casual viewing during the Olympic Games over time and seeing folks play at the beach, I couldn’t tell you much about competitive volleyball. I wasn’t going to tell the editors that, though. 
  Beforehand, I studied the sport regarding the key players, key teams, team historie
  
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• Obama Marks Major Milestone at Jackson Park Center, Honors Workers’ Contributions

  11-06-2024 15:15
  
  On Monday, former President Barack Obama visited the Jackson Park site of his namesake center to mark a significant milestone of the project and thank the workers. 
  “The sacrifices you have all made, I could not be more grateful,” Obama said.
  Obama greeted the workers, who number in the thousands since the project began in 2016.
  The center’s tallest structure, the tower, has reached its full height of eight floors. The building is now enclosed, and to commemorate this mile
  
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• White Teacher Assaulted 4-Year-Old Black Kid, Kept Job For Months: Lawsuit

  11-06-2024 14:30
  
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  A Texas family is suing a Collin County school district after their 4-year-old son was allegedly assaulted by his pre-K teacher.
  According to CBS News Texas, Gregory and Salam Thomas filed a lawsuit against Princeton ISD, alleging that school officials failed to report a violent attack against their son, Aaron, at Canup Early Childhood Center.
  The Thomas’ said they were told in November that Aaron had been locked outside the school during recess.
  “And then there w
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Only gifted students can correctly answer…How do you equalize a forest?

  11-06-2024 14:00
  
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  In the first half of the 20th century, educators assigned children who performed above grade level to higher grades. By the 1950s, psychologists wanted to provide a more developmentally appropriate setting than putting younger students in classrooms with older kids.
  The new model would pair advanced learners with kids their own age.
  The Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite in 1957. The United States felt it was falling behind the Soviets in space technology,
  
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• Reverend James Lawson,National Civil Rights Museum Icon Dies

  11-06-2024 13:47
  The National Civil Rights Museum is deeply saddened by the passing of civil rights philosopher and strategist, Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.
  Participating in several museum events and programs, Rev. Lawson has been a lifelong mentor of the movement and among a panel of respected scholars for the National Civil Rights Museum.  He is one of the Museum’s 2011 Freedom Award Icon of the Civil Rights Movement honorees.  In recent years, Rev. Lawson would join the National Civil Rights Muse
  
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• Reverend James Lawson, National Civil Rights Museum Icon Dies

  11-06-2024 13:47
  
  The National Civil Rights Museum is deeply saddened by the passing of civil rights philosopher and strategist, Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.
  Participating in several museum events and programs, Rev. Lawson has been a lifelong mentor of the movement and among a panel of respected scholars for the National Civil Rights Museum.  He is one of the Museum’s 2011 Freedom Award Icon of the Civil Rights Movement honorees.  In recent years, Rev. Lawson would join the National Civil Rights Muse
  
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• The year of the sapphic

  11-06-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The number of words devoted to any one thing often corresponds to the fascination or care we have for it. In many ways, for the queer community, the number of words we have to define love and relationships demonstrates our commitment to dismantling and redefining what it means to love and relate to one another. […]
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• Bally’s Chicago Casino Hosts Diversity Vendor Fair on June 11

  11-06-2024 09:00
  
  Bally’s Chicago Casino hosted a Diversity Supplier Vendor Fair on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chicago Teachers Union Hall, 1901 W. Carroll.
  “For Chicago’s first and only casino, it’s essential that our diverse business community is given ample opportunity to have a seat at the table,” said Ald. Walter Burnett Jr., whose 27th Ward is home to the future casino in River West. “It’s exciting to see so many minority, women, veteran a
  
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• The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash scores a historic headliner: Chief Keef

  11-06-2024 05:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2018, Chicago hip-hop blog Lyrical Lemonade threw the first outdoor Summer Smash festival in Douglass Park (then still spelled with a single “s”). Last year the Summer Smash moved to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, and Lyrical Lemonade founder Cole Bennett and his team are calling it the largest hip-hop fest in the midwest. The […]
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