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• Planet Earth created queer-friendly spaces on and off the dance floor

  20-06-2024 19:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In fall 2003, writer and actor Dave Awl faced a pileup of crises. His work as a freelance copywriter wasn’t going well, and because the developers who’d bought his Andersonville apartment building were turning it into condos, he had to move out by the end of October. He also had to figure out how to […]
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• Can You Hear Us Now? celebrates queer history through dance

  20-06-2024 18:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When celebrated tap dancer and choreographer Maurice Hines (elder brother and onetime stage partner of Gregory Hines) died at 80 late last year, the fact that he was openly gay didn’t factor heavily into the obituaries. But in his 2019 documentary, Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, he explored his experiences being both Black and gay […]
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• Palacios para la gente

  20-06-2024 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a Thursday in March 1968, eight-year-old Javier Galindo and his family arrived for the first time in the United States after emigrating from Mexico. Three days later, they sat at the Marshall Square Theater at 2875 W. Cermak and watched a black-and-white cowboy movie in Spanish.  “This was the place to come on Sundays,” […]
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• The fight to protest the DNC

  20-06-2024 16:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather to protest the 37,000 people killed in Israel’s U.S.–funded bombardment of Gaza. But whether those protests result in a clash between protesters and Chicago police is up to the courts to decide.  The Anti-War Committee Chicago, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and Students for […]
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• Journey To Juneteenth 2024: RTM News Provides A National Look At Celebrations And Traditions (Video)

  20-06-2024 15:54
  The “Journey to Juneteenth 2024” is captured through the scope of Real Times Media’s News Team which consists of New Pittsburgh Courier, Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, and Michigan Chronicle. 
  We invite you to embark on this journey as the RTM News Team explores the essence of Juneteenth from a national lens. 
   
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• Maryland Governor Wes Moore Pardons 175,000 Marijuana Convictions

  20-06-2024 14:30
  
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  Maryland governor Wes Moore is pardoning 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions.
  In an interview with the Washington Post, Moore announced that he was making the mass pardon on Monday (June 17) ahead of Juneteenth.
  The pardons will affect roughly 100,000 people charged with low-level marijuana possession.
  Moore described the mass pardon as a “far-reaching and aggressive” executive action amid the growing legalization of marijuana.
  According to the American Civil
  
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• Beloved Mom Of 6 Killed In Drive-by Shooting While Asleep In Home

  20-06-2024 14:10
  
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  A North Carolina mother was shot to death while she was asleep at home with her children, WSOC reports.
  Latasha Cureton, a 39-year-old mom of six, was killed last week in a drive-by shooting in Gastonia, North Carolina. The shooter allegedly sent bullets into Cureton’s home as she was sleeping and her children were watching a movie.
  Cureton’s mother and children, who witnessed the shooting, initially thought the gunfire was fireworks.
  “It was like being like
  
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• A book of penis drawings sparks a deeper conversation

  20-06-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When she is not behind the bar, Rashel Gordin is a mother, artist, and author of Dick-tation—an illustration and coloring book composed of penis drawings gathered from coworkers and patrons over the years. Gordin studied photography and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Despite her creative background, she didn’t anticipate […]
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• This Week In Black History June 19-25, 2024

  20-06-2024 05:00
  
  Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King displays pictures of three civil rights workers at news conference on Dec. 4, 1964 in New York City. The workers were slain in Mississippi last summer. Dr. King commended the FBI for its arrests in Mississippi on Dec. 4 in connection with the slayings. King holds up photos of Andrew Goodman; James Chaney; and Michael Schwerner. The three civil rights workers disappeared in Mississippi near the town of Philadelphia, northeast of Jackson. (AP Photo/ John
  
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• Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey’ kid

  20-06-2024 00:00
  
  Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem in 1954. Bettmann/Getty Imagesby Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University
  In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the International Longshoreman’s Union greeted him with cheers, newspaperman Frank Coniff quipped: “This is the damndest city. They cheer Khruschev and boo Willie Mays.”
  It was the height of the Cold War and, for Coniff and many of his readers, there was no better symbol of America than
  
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