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• Beloved South Side Postal Worker Fatally Shot on Delivery Route

  20-07-2024 23:45
  
  She was “a beautiful soul,” a wife, mother and grandmother with a dimpled smile as memorable as her spirit. 
  That was all taken away when, in broad daylight, someone shot and killed a 48-year-old woman identified as Octavia Redmond as she was delivering mail on her Far South Side route for the U. S. Postal Service. 
  According to Chicago police, the incident occurred in the West Pullman neighborhood in the 12100 block of South Harvard Avenue just before 11:40 a.m. 
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• ‘Rolling out’ and Lexus drive ‘Live Up To It’ program to extremes

  20-07-2024 19:56
  
   
   
  Photo credit: Brianna Devons
  Rolling out and Lexus have partnered for the remarkably dynamic “Live Up To It” program designed by rolling out to celebrate adventurous Black Americans breaking barriers in their respective fields while introducing the luxurious all-new 2024 Lexus GX. Kavata Swimwear founder Nate Fluellen and Oyster Expedition founder Woodie White are “living up to it” and inspiring others to do the same.
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• Lexus and rolling out drive ‘Live Up To It’ program to extremes

  20-07-2024 19:56
  
   
   
  Photo credit: Brianna Devons
  Rolling out and Lexus have partnered for the remarkably dynamic “Live Up To It” program designed by rolling out to celebrate adventurous Black Americans breaking barriers in their respective fields while introducing the luxurious all-new 2024 Lexus GX. Kavata Swimwear founder Nate Fluellen and Oyster Expedition founder Woodie White are “living up to it” and inspiring others to do the same.
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• Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Lands in Orland Park: Fans Flock to Grand Opening

  20-07-2024 15:30
  
  Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty store opens at the Orland Square Mall, the first in Illinois (Photo Credit: Lashae Washington/Facebook). 
  Bad girl Riri did it again! This time, in south suburban Orland Park, with the Savage X Fenty brand gracing the shelves for lingerie lovers.
  With a line wrapped around the mall nearly 30 miles south of Downtown Chicago, fans of the singer, actress, business owner and beauty mogul eagerly awaited the grand opening, hoping to grab the latest intimate apparel
  
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• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Has Passed At 74

  20-07-2024 14:30
  
  Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has passed at age 74. In June, Lee revealed that she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. 
  “Today, with incredible grief for our loss yet deep gratitude for the life she shared with us, we announce the passing of United States Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th Congressional District of Texas…A local, national, and international humanitarian, she was acknowledged worldwide for her courageous fights for racial justice, criminal justic
  
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• The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery

  20-07-2024 14:00
  
  In this drawing from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ a Black child is taken from his mother by a White man. Culture Club/Getty Imagesby Susanna Ashton, Clemson University
  In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton.
  But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He also had a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrate
  
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• ‘Disappointing’ Settlement Reached After White Woman Spat On Black Teen

  20-07-2024 14:00
  
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  A lawyer for a 22-year-old Black man who was spat on during a Black Lives Matter protest as a teen said a “disappointing” settlement was reached in the case, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
  Eric Lucas, who legally changed his name in 2023 due to publicity from the case, was 18 when he initially filed a civil lawsuit against Stephanie Rapkin. Rapkin spat in Lucas’ face during a BLM protest in the summer of 2020.
  Last month, a jury supported Lucas’ c
  
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