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• Beyond the Door traces a real-life story of addiction, recovery, and family reunification

  06-09-2024 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s not unusual for first-time playwrights to harbor dreams of big names working on their shows, but that dream is a reality for Denise Jones. The Lawndale native has shared her story of overcoming abuse and addiction many times as a minister and motivational speaker, as well as in her 2010 memoir, Who Said It […]
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• A Chicago cop killed someone in a car accident. They blamed a 20-year-old instead. 

  06-09-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This piece was copublished with the Appeal. Timothy Jones wasn’t supposed to be home for long. Nearing the end of his first year at Lincoln University in Missouri in 2013, Jones, a 6’1” student with a close-shorn beard and almond-shaped eyes, realized he needed a break before summer classes began, so he decided to return […]
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• The revolution on film 

  06-09-2024 01:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The climactic monologue at the end of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 black comedy satire The Great Dictator still holds incredible relevance. Surrounded by nearly his entire country, Chaplin’s character, Schultz, a barber mistaken for the dictator Hynkel, also played by Chaplin (à la Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor), uses the speech as an opportunity to […]
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