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• Review: Việt and Nam

  04-04-2025 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Việt and Nam in limited release in theaters
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• Review: Out of the Picture

  04-04-2025 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Out of the Picture screening on a limited tour
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• Review: A Minecraft Movie

  04-04-2025 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Minecraft Movie in wide release in theaters
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• Black Women Who Powered the Labor Movement Get Their Own Museum in Chicago

  04-04-2025 15:30
  
  From L-R: State Senator Elgie R. Sims, Jr., Dr. David Peterson, Dr. Lyn Hughes, Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller, Ald. Stephanie Coleman and Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore (Photo Credit: Tacuma Roeback).
  They were the wives, the fundraisers, the backbone of a movement. Now, they will finally have a place that tells their story.
  On a gray, drizzly Saturday in March, the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum broke ground on a first-of-its-kind museum—the BSCP Ladies
  
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• Cory Booker’s Call to Action

  04-04-2025 15:15
  
  U.S. Sen. Cory Booker is filmed during his record speech on Tuesday morning (Senate Television/AP pic under a CC BY 4.0 license).
  By Joseph Williams
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  After weeks of watching President Donald Trump playing fast and loose with the most powerful office in the world — and seeing his party, condemned to minority status in Congress, fecklessly stumble around Washington without coordinated or meaningful pushback — Sen. Cory Booker, a Ne
  
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• $47M Auburn Gresham Apartments Bring Affordable Housing and Jobs to Chicago’s South Side

  04-04-2025 14:00
  
  Photo Credit: Lanette Warbington
  A once-vacant stretch of land on Chicago’s South Side has transformed into a symbol of renewal.
  Earlier this week, Mayor Brandon Johnson stood alongside city officials and residents of Auburn Gresham to celebrate the grand opening of the Auburn Gresham Apartments—a $47 million affordable housing development at 79th Street.
  “The investments we are seeing today on the South Side will ensure that Chicago continues to grow and thrive, not just today
  
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• Jasmine Crockett Schools Pam Bondi On Free Speech After Elon Musk ‘Threat’

  04-04-2025 13:30
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) hit back at Attorney General Pam Bondi after she warned the congresswoman about her criticism of Elon Musk.
  During a House judiciary committee meeting on Wednesday (April 2), Crockett addressed Bondi saying the Democrat needed to “tread very carefully” with her anti-Musk comments.
  “To have her go on Fox News and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett said Wednesday. “She is t
  
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• Vintage, experimental, and more

  04-04-2025 06:20 via chicagoreader.com
  Check out these upcoming events, exhibitions, screenings, and other activities to kick off April. Fri 4/4  You can’t throw a pair of original Nike Air Jordans without hitting a vintage vendors pop-up these days (and we really don’t recommend that you throw your shoes around anyhow). The Magnificent Mile is the latest spot where you’ll […]
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