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• Angel Reese of Chicago Sky Named WNBA Rookie of the Month for June

  02-07-2024 23:50
  
  The Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese won WNBA Rookie of the Month for June. This feat comes on the heels of her setting a remarkable record for consecutive double-doubles.   🏀 @Kia Rookie of the Month 🏀
  Angel Reese averaged 14.5 PPG, 13.2 RPG and 1.8 APG to earn June rookie of the month honors for the @chicagosky#KiaROTM | #WelcometotheW pic.twitter.com/ZszouOgdxh
  — WNBA (@WNBA) July 2, 2024
   
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• Community kitchen

  02-07-2024 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cooking as the crucible for family and friendship, as well as self-discovery, is familiar territory in theater and film. Whether it’s Jenna in Waitress working out her personal angst through creative pie recipes, or the brothers running a struggling Italian restaurant on the Jersey Shore in the 1996 film Big Night deciding just how much […]
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• Elastic Arts hosts Independence Day improvisations that center Black folks

  02-07-2024 20:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This January, Elastic Arts announced the four new curators for its long-running weekly Improvised Music Series: Ishmael Ali, Molly Jones, Ben Zucker, and Angel Bat Dawid. The Improvised Music Series hosts a show every Thursday, and though it usually skips holidays, this Independence Day is an exception. On the curators’ shared calendar, Dawid noticed the […]
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• Savannah songs

  02-07-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  John Berendt’s nonfiction novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, became a cultural sensation on its release 30 years ago. (When I hear the phrase “nonfiction novel,” I think of Huckleberry Finn talking about Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer: “He told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Disturbing Black generational divide on the demise of Affirmative Action?

  02-07-2024 14:00
   The 1996 presidential election was expected to be a landslide victory for incumbent President Clinton due to the strength of the economy. Affirmative Action became a contentious national campaign issue after California’s ballot proposition 209 threatened to eliminate Affirmative Action in the state’s public sector.
  Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole publicly endorsed proposition 209, while President Clinton acknowledged that Affirmative Action had flaws but should be &ldq
  
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• Mayor Johnson’s Paid Time Off, One Fair Wage Ordinances Go Into Effect

  02-07-2024 01:09
  
  Starting today, Mayor Johnson’s landmark Paid Time Off and One Fair Wage ordinances are in effect, raising the minimum wage to $16.20 per hour. More Perfect Union, a nonprofit media organization, has released a video interview with Mayor Johnson discussing these significant changes and his vision for Chicago’s working families. You can watch the video here.
  “It is a new day in Chicago,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “Over 60,000 service industry employees just got a r
  
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• Local, National Lawmakers Respond to SCOTUS Ruling on Trump’s Immunity

  02-07-2024 00:52
  
  With Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, it’s almost certain that Donald Trump will not face trial for interfering with the 2020 election before November when this country will vote for its next President. 
  In a 6-3 decision, the high court’s conservative majority declared that former presidents are protected from prosecution for official acts but not for unofficial acts. The case will be sent back to the lower court to decide whether key parts of the indictment are unofficial
  
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