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• Tacuma Roeback: Shedeur Sanders’s NFL Draft Slide Wasn’t About Football. It Was Personal.

  27-04-2025 16:00
  
  Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  Shedeur Sanders’s inexplicable slide in the 2025 NFL Draft had nothing to do with what he did on the field. This was personal.
  What happened to Shedeur — being picked much later than projected — looked, smelled, and felt like a message: that this brash, Black, privileged quarterback had to be put in his place.
  More than that, it seemed the league made an example out of him and everything he represents: the new-age college athlete, already famous
  
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• Tacuma Roeback: Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft Slide Wasn’t About Football. It Was Personal.

  27-04-2025 16:00
  
  Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
  Shedeur Sanders’s inexplicable slide in the 2025 NFL Draft had nothing to do with what he did on the field. This was personal.
  What happened to Shedeur — being picked much later than projected — looked, smelled, and felt like a message: that this brash, Black, privileged quarterback had to be put in his place.
  More than that, it seemed the league made an example out of him and everything he represents: the new-age college athlete, already famous
  
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• Mayor Johnson, Community Leaders Plant Trees in West Woodlawn to Build a Greener Chicago

  27-04-2025 14:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson joined residents and community leaders in West Woodlawn to celebrate Arbor Day with a tree-planting event that underscored a bigger mission: expanding Chicago’s urban canopy where it’s needed most.
  Hosted by Blacks in Green, an environmental and economic justice nonprofit, the event highlighted the City’s Our Roots Chicago program — an ambitious effort to plant trees in South and West Side neighborhoods long deprived of green space.
  “We are pla
  
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• Noah’s Arc Foundation and Mothers Affected by Gun Violence Host Art and Sports Workshop for Chicago Youth

  27-04-2025 14:00
  
  Photo Courtesy of Noah’s Arc Foundation
  At Major Adams Community Center on Saturday, healing came through art and sports.
  The Noah’s Arc Foundation, in partnership with the Ladies of the Arc — a group of mothers who have lost their children to gun violence — hosted expressive art and sports workshops for young people on Chicago’s West Side.
  The event gave local youth a space to move, create, and process emotions, guided by women who have turned unimaginable grief in
  
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• Cook County Volunteers Renovate Homes for Seniors in Maywood During National Rebuilding Day

  27-04-2025 13:00
  
  President Preckwinkle, along with First District Commissioner Tara Stamps and Maywood Mayor Nathaniel Booker, toured two homes in west suburban Maywood, which were renovated and repaired by volunteers from Cook County and other firms and companies. In partnership with Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, skilled tradespeople lend their craftsmanship and expertise to assist elderly, disabled and low-income residents, allowing them to stay home and live safely and independently. This is the 34th yea
  
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