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• Opera as oratorio

  17-06-2024 21:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s safe to assume that any Haymarket Opera Company performance will transport you from the blare of contemporary life to the more genteel soundscape of the baroque. Last weekend’s production of George Frideric Handel’s “oratorio” La Resurrezione delivered, with five masters of baroque vocal performance and a 20-piece orchestra of period instruments, conducted by British […]
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• Project Brotherhood Champions, Establishes Day Dedicated To Black Male Health

  17-06-2024 15:00
  
  By Ashleigh Fields
  On the South Side of Chicago, Black men have collectively prioritized and mobilized on issues paramount to their demographic. Prostate cancer, lung cancer and the lack of participation in clinical trials have remained hot topics for the local group known as Project Brotherhood.
  “We create a safe space for men to come together,” said Murray. “Everything we do is culturally and specifically designed for Black men; we speak to them in a way that they can relate
  
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• Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

  17-06-2024 14:32
  
  Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Fileby Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University
  Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.
  Lawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns – one in Nashville in 1960 and the other in Memphis in 1968.
  In Nashville, Lawson trained students
  
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• White Man Plotted To Shoot Up Atlanta Concert To Start ‘Race War’: Feds

  17-06-2024 14:00
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  An Arizona gun vendor allegedly plotted to target Black people in a mass shooting at an Atlanta concert in hopes of starting a “race war.”
  On Tuesday (June 11), 58-year-old Mark Adams Prieto was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime, and possession of an unregistered firearm, per HuffPost.
  The indictment came after Prieto was arrested last month for supplying guns to federal informants in
  
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