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• Review: Presence

  30-01-2025 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Presence in wide release in theaters
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• Review: One of Them Days

  30-01-2025 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of Them Days in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Flight Risk

  30-01-2025 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Flight Risk in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Companion

  30-01-2025 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Companion in wide release in theaters
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• Chicago Record Report: January 2025

  30-01-2025 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Edge Ensemble, Paradoxes in Freedom Guitarist Dan Phillips leads this all-star jazz collective, whose fourth album uses his tunes to frame the improvisations of drummer Avreeayl Ra, bassist Krzysztof Pabian, trombonist Jeb Bishop, and cornetist Josh Berman. These pieces, recorded live in Chicago and Milwaukee, play with the balance between structure and freedom, interweaving […]
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• Everything We Know About The Plane And Helicopter Crash Near Washington, DC

  30-01-2025 18:15
  
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  At least 30 bodies have been recovered in the Potomac River following a collision between a commercial aircraft and an Army helicopter near Washington D.C.
  On Wednesday (January 29) night, a plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter with three soldiers on board while trying to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport, per Newsweek.
  “CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while
  
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• James Hudson presents Hard Done By: Contemporary Irish Trans Films

  30-01-2025 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Somewhere amid the rolling foothills and Georgian facades of Dublin, Ireland, James Hudson is watching a lot of gay movies. For five years, the 28-year-old has worked for the GAZE Film Festival, Ireland’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival—first as a programming intern and now as the assistant programmer. Since 2022, he’s also been running a monthly […]
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• These Executive Orders Can Hit Black Students the Hardest

  30-01-2025 15:30
  
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  By Aziah Siid
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  When President Donald Trump signed a barrage of controversial executive orders rolling back civil rights protections and racial equity policies, he didn’t explicitly address education. But he did set the tone for what schools and education policy leaders should expect during the next four years.
  That includes an end to diversity in teacher hiring, a green light for immigration officers t
  
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• Welcome to Zhegagoynak

  30-01-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland" through 7/13 at the Block Museum
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• Trump Pardons 2 Cops Involved In Cover-Up, Deadly Chase Of Black Man

  30-01-2025 14:00
  
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  President Donald Trump has issued pardons to two Washington, D.C. officers involved in the deadly chase of a Black man on a moped.
  On Wednesday (January 22), Trump granted clemency to Metropolitan Police Department Officer Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky, his lieutenant supervisor, following the October 2020 unauthorized chase that killed 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, per NBC News.
  Sutton, who was sentenced in September to more than five years in prison, faced a state ch
  
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• Almost half of evicted women and families in metro Detroit say they were illegally pushed out of their homes

  30-01-2025 13:00
  
  In many U.S. communities, eviction moratoriums that were in place during the pandemic have expired. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Imagesby Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, The Ohio State University
  Every year, 2.7 million households nationwide face a court-ordered eviction filing.
  Michigan has one of the highest eviction filing rates in the country, tied with Mississippi. Fourteen percent of all Michiganders who rent homes were threatened with eviction between 2006 and 2016.
  Due to historical and con
  
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• This Week In Black History January 29-February 4

  30-01-2025 05:00
  
  JANUARY 291837—The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was proud of his Black heritage, which is traced to his great grandfather on his moth­er’s side—Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal who was most probably an Ethiopian who became part of Russian royalty. Pushkin’s poetic style combined dra­ma, romance and s
  
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