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• It’s a French Brazilian knife dance with Chrissy Richards and company at the next Monday Night Foodball

  20-03-2025 23:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A printing press took three fingers off Chrissy Richards’s left hand when she was 18. That was her fretting hand, which meant that her days playing guitar for the southwest side’s hardcore Turkey Sandwich Sound Machine were over. “It absolutely sucked,” she says. “But the saving grace was I was so deep into the music, […]
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• Public records revealed the truth about how my son was shot to death by the police

  20-03-2025 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Content note: this story mentions suicidal ideation and discusses a police homicide.  This story is published in cooperation with Sunshine Week, a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in the journalism, civic, education, government, and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of public records and open government. Sunshine Week is coordinated by the Joseph […]
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• BLC2025: Living Word Hosts Business Conference to Empower Entrepreneurs, March 21-22

  20-03-2025 15:00
  
  A BLC2024 panel discussion with Karla Trotman, Brigitte Daniel-Corbin, and Jessica Johnson-Cope, moderated by Dr. Deloris Thomas (Photo Credit: Facebook).
  The 2025 Business and Leadership Conference (BLC2025) isn’t just another networking event—it’s a movement.
  This free two-day gathering, held at Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park (7600 W Roosevelt Road), is designed to equip entrepreneurs, business owners and anyone looking to take their careers to the next level wit
  
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• Razor Bumps Could Bump Marines From Service

  20-03-2025 14:00
  
  By Jennifer Porter Gore
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  Overview:
  Black service members make up about 15% to 16% of the active-duty force, but 66% of shaving waiver holders are Black.
  Imagine being told a non-infectious skin condition you were born predisposed to suffer from could cost you your career. For some Marines, that could soon be a reality.
  That’s because on March 13, the Pentagon issued new “interim guidance” that may mean service members with
  
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• Zombie choreography

  20-03-2025 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Chorong Yang. Chorong Yang Those completely spaced-out […]
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• Jonathan Majors Confirms Wedding To Meagan Good

  20-03-2025 12:30
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good have tied the knot.
  Entertainment Tonight was the first outlet to report that Majors and Good married on Tuesday (March 18) during a “small private wedding” at their home in Los Angeles.
  On Wednesday (March 19), the actor confirmed the news while appearing on Sherri. “I said to Meagan yesterday, I said, ‘Today might be the happiest day of my life,'” Majors told host Sherri Shepard through tears. “I love that
  
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• This Week In Black History March 19-25, 2025

  20-03-2025 03:00
  
  March 19
  1620—The first Black child born in America, William Tucker, was probably born on this date in Jamestown, Va. However, some controversy surrounds the exact date. What we know for sure is that he was the son of two of the first Africans brought to America as indentured servants in August 1619—Anthony (Antonio) and Isabella. We also know he was baptized on Jan. 3, 1624. Further, there is debate as to whether his last name was actually “Tucker.” It seems that many hi
  
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