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• GREY

  16-04-2025 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• In waves and war, Doc10 returns

  16-04-2025 21:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Elegance Bratton’s Move Ya Body: The Birth of House—opening the 2025 Doc10 Film Festival on Wednesday, April 30, at 7 PM at the Davis Theater—will make you proud to be a Chicagoan. As a document of the house music scene, the 2025 film is an ecstatic detailing of this particular feather in the city’s cap, […]
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• Green season: cannabis events

  16-04-2025 19:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We couldn’t miss giving you a 4/20 edition! Many dispensaries, smoke lounges, and CBD shops are running sales this month with special deals on items like prerolls, topicals, and accessories. Here are some cannabis-related events to check out. Some are meant to make you get in the door and shop, and some are just ganja-inspired, […]
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• The Notations have never left 60s soul behind

  16-04-2025 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago has made huge contributions to soul music, and many of the city’s best-known groups—including the Emotions, the Chi-Lites, and Earth, Wind & Fire—continue to perform occasionally, decades after their peaks. The Notations have never gotten as famous as those acts, but founding member Cliff Curry has kept the group’s name alive for more than […]
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• Romance language

  16-04-2025 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Translations, through 5/4 at Writers Theatre, Glencoe
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• Locals only

  16-04-2025 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  EXPO Chicago through 4/27 at Navy Pier
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• Bunny angst

  16-04-2025 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Scary Town, through 5/11 with Hell in a Handbag at the Clutch
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• Henry, portrait of a patsy

  16-04-2025 17:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Henry Johnson, through 5/4 at Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph
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• Art beyond the EXPO Chicago booths

  16-04-2025 16:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  EXPO Chicago as an art market innovator is something not always appreciated outside the ivied walls of the art world, if acknowledged at all. Technically, it’s the oldest modern art fair in North America; it started as Art Chicago in 1980, then was bought and rebranded as EXPO in 2012. EXPO’s legacy has been eclipsed […]
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• UNCF Celebrates 81st Anniversary with Radiothon Honoring Frankie Beverly and Supporting HBCU Scholarships

  16-04-2025 15:30
  
  Frankie Beverly (Photo Provided).
  The United Negro College Fund is celebrating its 81st anniversary with a powerful mix of music, memories, and mission.
  On Friday, April 25, UNCF and Omni-Channel Radio will host the Second Annual UNCF/Omni-Channel Radio Radiothon—a 12-hour live stream fundraiser aimed at supporting college scholarships for students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This year’s event comes with a special tribute to the late soul legend Fr
  
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• Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

  16-04-2025 15:15
  
  A sweeping new analysis of U.S. mortality data over the past 70 years reveals that Black children in the United States have consistently faced significantly higher mortality rates than their white peers, with no improvement in relative disparities since the 1950s. The study, published March 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, documents more than half a million avoidable infant deaths and nearly 690,000 childhood deaths among Black Americans between 1950 and 2019. Conducted by researchers from
  
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• Trinity United Church of Christ Hosts Good Friday ‘7 Last Words’ Service Featuring Renowned Preachers

  16-04-2025 14:45
  
  Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago invites the public to experience a powerful tradition of reflection and faith this Good Friday, as it hosts its 7 Last Words Worship Service on Friday, April 18, 2025, at noon.
  Led by Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity, the service will unfold at the church’s sanctuary, located at 400 West 95th Street on Chicago’s South Side. The annual gathering will feature seven dynamic guest preachers, each offering a brief, spirit-filled m
  
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• The Carr Report: Tariff Trouble…What it means for your pockets

  16-04-2025 14:30
  
  Let’s keep it a buck—tariffs ain’t just boring political talk for CNN and policy nerds. Nah, tariffs hit the streets, your shopping cart, and your stock portfolio like a freight train. Case in point: recent tariffs slapped on Vietnamese imports by former President Trump caused chaos in the markets, shook Nike to its core, and took a big bite out of Big Tech. If you didn’t feel it yet, hold tight—it’s trickling down fast.
  What is a Tariff?
  A tariff is basically
  
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• Obama Praises Harvard For Rejecting Trump’s Demands Amid Funding Cut Threat

  16-04-2025 14:15
  
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  Former President Barack Obama praised Harvard University for resisting pressure from the Trump administration to comply with “unlawful demands” as the school faces a funding freeze, per ABC News.
  On Monday (April 14), Harvard University said that it was declining to follow a series of demands from the Trump administration related to its alleged inaction on antisemitism. The administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism then announced a multibilli
  
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• MR SONNY KNOWS for April 16, 2025

  16-04-2025 14:00
  
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• Church Deacon Dies While Protecting Others In Easter Egg Hunt Shooting

  16-04-2025 13:30
  
  Photo: Empowerment Ministries Christian Center
  A Mississippi church deacon is being hailed as a “hero” after he died while protecting others in a shooting during an Easter egg hunt.
  On Saturday (April 12), Deacon Eddie Shed of the Empowerment Ministries Christian Center (EMCC) in Gulfport was killed in a “senseless act of gun violence” during a church-sponsored Easter egg hunt at the Goldin Sports Complex, per PEOPLE.
  24-year-old Tyran Deion Gable was charged with first-d
  
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