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• A decade of Freelance Wrestling: where high-flying moves meet raw talent

  27-06-2024 22:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Two thousand sixteen was the year of my first Freelance Wrestling match. [That] was also the year I was gonna hang it up,” said professional wrestler Mustafa Ali in front of fans at the Logan Square Auditorium in April. A circle of local independent wrestlers who just finished a night of putting their bodies on […]
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• Intergenerational connection is radical

  27-06-2024 20:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In my 18 years of teaching college students, I have found that many LGBTQ+ young adults do not realize that older gay, bi, trans, nonbinary, or queer people exist. A  significant number believe that they themselves won’t live past 40. Earlier this year, a 20-year-old transgender student began crying in my class as they described […]
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• Grails’ adventurous rock is for the people

  27-06-2024 19:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Grails are a band meant to be experienced live. Their recordings serve up a heady shot of 70s-flavored instrumental guitar rock, but when the musicians can be corralled onto a stage (they live in five different places across the U.S.), they reveal a chemistry that can’t be neatly distilled. In an interview with Willamette Week […]
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• Swiss group L’Eclair spin pop’s past into funk’s future

  27-06-2024 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Six-piece Swiss ensemble L’Eclair specialize in a style of instrumental funk that sounds unstuck in time. Their smooth, precise breaks evince the far-reaching influence of hip-hop, but their dreamy, hypnotic melodies sound like they might’ve been assembled from the same mythical trove of forgotten private-press recordings that DJ Shadow mines for his kaleidoscopic beats. Last […]
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• Etran de L’Aïr bring the world the happy desert blues

  27-06-2024 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nigerien band Etran de L’Aïr (“Stars of the Air”) aren’t as well-known in the West as Tuareg desert-blues superstars such as Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar, and Bombino. But in their hometown of Agadez, where bandleader Aghaly Migi formed the group in 1995, they’re long-standing legends. They started out playing local weddings and have since drawn international […]
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• Teen on Home Confinement Charged with Murder of Retired CPD Officer

  27-06-2024 19:21
  
  Sixteen-year-old Lazarius Watt, who turned himself in over the weekend, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder for the shooting death of retired Chicago Police Officer Larry Neuman. 
  During a hearing, a Cook County judge described Watt’s alleged actions as “heinous” and deemed him a danger to the entire neighborhood before remanding him to custody.
  Prosecutors said Watt was on home confinement at the time of the murder and violated his electronic monitoring
  
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• Love & Hip Hop star Teairra Marí gets back to basics

  27-06-2024 19:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The music industry can be a harrowing place that chews people up and spits them out, but it remains attractive to plenty of artists pursuing commercial success. R&B songstress Teairra Marí Thomas, who makes music as Teairra Marí, has had her share of ups and downs in the unforgiving universe of labels, hit records, and […]
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• Experimental composer Whitney Johnson duets with cellist and sound artist Lia Kohl at Kilbourn Park

  27-06-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Whitney Johnson makes music that asks to be excavated. On the Chicagoan’s latest solo album as Matchess, 2022’s Sonescent (Drag City), she sculpts two long-form pieces that patiently evolve into dreamy fantasias. She begins “Almost Gone” with a piercing sine tone that acts as a palate cleanser and a directive for the casual listener: proceed […]
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• Heavy shoegaze unit Interlay celebrate their new EP as a Chicago band

  27-06-2024 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Shoegaze’s fog has saturated indie rock over the past couple years, and while I love hearing new bands find their own ways to make out-of-this world guitar ambience with phalanxes of pedals, for every one that succeeds there seem to be a dozen indistinguishable also-rans. Thank goodness for Interlay, one of the few new acts […]
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• Review: A Family Affair

  27-06-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  An arrogant movie star in his mid-30s with intimacy issues breaks into his assistant’s house and instead finds her mother, a widowed fashion writer living in a waterside mansion. Like magic, they fall in love. This reads like the back cover of a pulp fiction romance novel, where in reality, it’s an A-list rom-com with […]
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• CNN Fails To Grant Credentials To Black-Owned Media Ahead Of Biden-Trump Debate

  27-06-2024 15:56
  CNN continues face backlash after failing to grant credentials to Black-owned media outlets ahead of tonight’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
  The highly-anticipated debate is taking place at the CNN studio in Atlanta this evening. However, 800 media outlets around the world was granted credentials, but there is zero representation from Black-owned press, according to EBONY. 
  The Atlanta Black Star released the denial for media credentials which stated, “Due
  
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• UNCF’s AMI Gala Raises $700K, Celebrates Black Excellence

  27-06-2024 15:30
  
  Target received the “A Mind Is…” Gala Corporate Award. Left to right are: Maurice E. Jenkins, Jr., executive vice president for field development, UNCF; Kenya Joyce Hatch, area development director, Chicago, UNCF; Fred Mitchell, vice president of development for UNCF’s Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions; Jalah Hood, Target Scholar; Ron Brown, vice president of Community Impact, Target; and Lisa Rollins, regional development director, Workplace, UNCF (Credit: Ven Sherrod).
  
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• Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away

  27-06-2024 15:00
  
  Corey Mayes at his New York home on Feb. 10, 2023, after receiving a kidney transplant. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images− a bioethicist explains why
  by Ana S. Iltis, Wake Forest University
  As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans, who are three times more likely than White Americans to develop kidney failure.
  While Black people constitute only 12% of the U.S. populat
  
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• Rep. Jamaal Bowman Loses Democratic Primary In New York

  27-06-2024 14:00
  
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  Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost the primary election for New York’s 16th District on Tuesday (June 25), according to NBC News.
  Bowman, a critic of Israel and a member of the progressive “squad” of lawmakers of color, was defeated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer.
  On Tuesday night, Bowman conceded defeat while speaking to his supporters.
  “This race was never about me and me alone. It was never about this district and this district alone
  
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• This Week In Black History June 26 – July 2, 2024

  27-06-2024 05:49
  
  JUNE 261899—Black inventor William H. Richardson redesigns the baby car­riage. While the idea for the baby car­riage is nearly 300 years old, Richard­son’s patent, filed at the Boston patent office, included several new features including a special joint which allowed the bassinet to be turned to face the mother or whoever was pushing the carriage. Many of Richardson’s designs are still in use today. [There is some authority that Richardson’s patent was actual
  
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• “Slouching towards being a white cube”

  27-06-2024 00:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the heart of Weatherproof are two bold, young artists eager to agitate, serving up brief yet blistering exhibitions that affirm the vitality of Chicago’s do-it-yourself gallery scene. Weatherproof is a passion project turned curatorial umbrella and gallery led by Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck, presenting unusual contemporary art in an Albany Park office and […]
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