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• How This Black-Owned South Side Eatery Turned a Setback Into a Comeback

  18-04-2025 16:30
  
  After a break-in at their Beverly restaurant, Brian and Linda Flippin reopened Flippin Flavors the same day. Backed by their community, they turned hardship into hope (Photo Credit Tacuma Roeback). 
  On a chilly Saturday morning in late March, Brian Flippin was shopping for supplies when he got the alert no small business owner ever wants to receive.
  His Beverly restaurant, Flippin Flavors, had been burglarized.
  Security footage captured the suspect smashing through the front glass, rummagin
  
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• Review: Sinners

  18-04-2025 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sinners wide release in theaters
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• Evan Moore: Why You Should See Pro Wrestling Live—Especially in a City Like Chicago

  18-04-2025 16:00
  
  Defender Sports Columnist Evan F. Moore attended Game Changer Wrestling’s Chicago event in March 2025 (Photo Credit: Evan F. Moore).
   
  It’s one thing to watch a sport on TV or from your phone. 
  It’s another to see the sport live. 
  In my case, over the past two years, I’ve attended pro wrestling shows such as NXT, WWE’s development brand, AEW’s All Out 2024 pay-per-view, 4th Rope’s Heels Have Eyes, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), and New Japa
  
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• Misinformation Surrounding Fatal Track Meet Stabbing: What You Need To Know

  18-04-2025 15:00
  
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  Misinformation surrounding the fatal stabbing at a Frisco high school track meet is spreading on social media, sparking confusion and even threats to the families involved, CBS News reports.
  The fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf unfolded on April 2 at a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco. Karmelo Anthony, 17, was charged with murder in connection with the stabbing and is being held on $1 million bail. The case has been subjected to intense social media atte
  
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• Must love dogs

  18-04-2025 14:00 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 Muchen Wang. Muchen Wang Can a person […]
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• Target Calls Meeting With Rev. Al Sharpton To Discuss DEI Rollback

  18-04-2025 02:00
  
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  Target CEO Brian Cornell is set to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton amid boycotts against the retailer and a decrease in foot traffic spurred by its DEI rollback.According to CNBC, Target called the meeting with Sharpton as some civil rights groups are urging consumers not to stop at Target following its decision to remove its DEI policies and initiatives.
  Sharpton hasn’t called for a Target-specific boycott, but has supported efforts from other groups to stop shopping at the
  
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• Black Maternal Health Week 2025: Community-Led Care Model Targets Racial Disparities

  18-04-2025 00:18
  
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  This Black Maternal Health Week, the South Side Healthy Community Organization (SSHCO) is reaffirming a truth too often ignored: that Black women in the United States are dying at alarming rates from preventable pregnancy-related complications—and that it doesn’t have to be this way.
  Across the country, Black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as White women, according to the CDC. In 2023, the maternal mortality ra
  
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