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• Besties

  10-04-2025 20:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year around this time we were standing in the middle of Lincoln Park Zoo with some of you, watching two of the female lions remind us that they’re actual wild animals by grabbing two ducks from the air and chowed down on them, right there in the lion enclosure. It was the Best of […]
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• Lady Bunny, National Public Housing Museum, and more

  10-04-2025 19:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Thu 4/10 It’s the time of year for birds to start gathering nesting materials and squirrels popping out of their tree hideaways. Tonight, a bunny will show up in Schaumburg, but be wary of getting too close—this one definitely has a bite. Legendary drag performer Lady Bunny brings her acerbic humor and groan-inducing gags that […]
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• The Chicago film industry is working toward sustainability

  10-04-2025 17:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  From The Bear to The Blues Brothers, Chicago is an entertainment industry town that generates an annual $700 million in economic impact across 50 wards and sustains approximately 20,000 jobs. But along with the success of jobs, money, and production comes a heaping amount of environmental waste. For people not fine-tuned to the entertainment world, […]
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• Gilda returns with a Basque-style pintxo party at the next Monday Night  Foodball

  10-04-2025 17:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s difficult to overstate the influence Albert D’Angelo had on a generation of Chicago cooks. The importance of the New York–based chef, who disappeared shortly after his April 1, 2008, Chicago debut in the Carter H. Harrison Water Intake Crib, two miles into Lake Michigan, easily eclipses that of Trotter, Kahan, Achatz—anyone you can name. […]
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• From meditative to madcap

  10-04-2025 17:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Apologies for not writing a column last week—consider this a two-week catch-up, one informed by a stretch of particularly immersive (and in some cases contradictory) viewings. In fact, the past couple […]
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• Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Announces Run for Governor of Georgia

  10-04-2025 15:39
  
  Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has announced her intention to run for governor of Georgia during an appearance at this year’s Leading Women Defined Summit. Bottoms, Atlanta’s 60th mayor is a graduate of Douglas High School, FAMU, and Georgia State University, served as a senior advisor to President Joe Biden and resigned the position, beating Donald Trump to the punch, who would go on to falsely claim that he fired her when he took office.
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• HHS Staff Cuts Mean Uneasy Breathing in Black Communities

  10-04-2025 15:00
  
  By Jennifer Porter Gore
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  Sweeping staff cuts announced last week at the federal Department of Health and Human Services have respiratory-health organizations sounding the alarm, warning of fewer resources to treat asthma, fight Big Tobacco, and help smokers quit — health issues that disproportionately affect the Black community. 
  The cuts, part of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to slash 10,000 employees from th
  
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• Praize Productions’ “Complexions” Explores the Power of Rest for Black Women Through Dance

  10-04-2025 14:30
  
  Erica Wade and Terri Woodall (Photo Credit: Rachel Neville).
  Chicago’s Praize Productions, Inc. is debuting a new show that dares to ask a simple but radical question: What happens when Black women stop working and start resting?
  On Sunday, April 13, the award-winning arts and production company will premiere “Complexions,” a multidisciplinary performance that weaves dance, theater, and spoken word into a moving meditation on rest, identity, and power. The show centers Black wo
  
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• You are on Native land

  10-04-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Woven Being" through 7/13 at the Block Museum
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• White Superintendent Facing Fifth Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

  10-04-2025 13:30
  
  Photo: Eastpointe Community Schools
  A white superintendent in Michigan has been hit with he fifth racial discrimination lawsuit within the past two years.
  According to Atlanta Black Star, Pleasantview Elementary School Principal Falicia Moreland-Trice, who is Black, filed a federal lawsuit against Eastpointe Community Schools and Superintendent Christina Gibson, alleging that the district fostered a racially hostile work environment against Black employees.
  The lawsuit accuses Gibson of admittin
  
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• Sheriff to shutter electronic monitoring unit

  10-04-2025 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom, and the judge was prepared to let her go home through a program known as home confinement. Mayes […]
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• This Week In Black History April 9-15, 2025

  10-04-2025 06:00
  
  APRIL 91865—Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The nine regiments led by Gen. John Hawkins smashed through Confederate defenses at Forth Blakely, Ala. The 68th Division of USCT (United States Colored Troops) had some of the highest casualties of the Civil War.1898—Paul Bustill Robeson is born in Princeton, N.J. Robeson would go on to become the greatest combina­tion of entertainer and social ac
  
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