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• Seven Dragon Balls, five elements, and an immortal legacy

  01-08-2024 19:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On July 12, 2024, a regular-looking corner store called La Estrella on Diversey near Harlem opened the doors on its new secret identity. On the inside, the mini-mart was transformed into an art gallery—and not just any art gallery. The two-week pop-up exhibit that launched that evening, called “Dragon Ball Estrella,” was dedicated to a […]
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• Colman Domingo Shines ‘Sing Sing,’ Enjoying A New Era of Acclaim and Joy

  01-08-2024 15:45
  
  Fresh from his Academy Award nomination for “Rustin,” Colman Domingo embraces a new role in the acclaimed prison drama “Sing Sing” (Photo Credit: Tacuma Roeback). 
  Colman Domingo is having the time of his life. 
  Fresh off being nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance in “Rustin,” this Philadelphia-bred actor, writer, director and producer is in the midst of a run that any performer would envy. 
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• COLUMN: Trump’s NABJ Convention Interview Was the Disaster Everyone Expected

  01-08-2024 15:15
  
  Donald Trump onstage with Rachel Scott of ABC News, Kadia Goba of Semafor and Harris Faulkner of FOX News (Photo Credit: Nicole Joseph).
  The Donald Trump interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention was the s–t show we all thought it would be.
  It’s the Frog and the Scorpion all over again, where the former is surprised that it got stung by the latter even though it provided passage to him across a river. “What do you expect?” the Scorpion told the
  
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• Iilaatawiaanki (We speak a language)

  01-08-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  George Strack sits in an airy, art-filled kitchen with a little dog named Bo at the end of a cul-de-sac in the northwestern suburb of Morton Grove. The 77-year-old retired Chicago Public Schools building engineer answers a ringing cell phone. “Aya nimihse!” he says. (“Hello, older sister!”) Roughly ten miles away, amid the cafes, mansions, […]
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• This Week In Black History July 31- August 6, 2024

  01-08-2024 05:00
  
  THOMAS ‘HIT MAN’ HEARNS
  JULY 311874—Father Patrick Francis Healy be­comes the first Black president of a major White university when he is inaugurated on this day as president of Georgetown University. Healy was also the first Afri­can American to earn a PhD. However, racial prejudice forced him to earn his degree in Europe not the United States. Healy was born in Macon, Ga., in 1834 to a Black slave woman and a White planta­tion owner who decided to acknowledge his
  
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