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• Tony Tasset cuts to the bone

  13-05-2025 20:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” through 6/7 at Corbett vs. Dempsey
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• Chicago Bulls Land No. 12 Pick in 2025 NBA Draft After Losing Tiebreaker to Mavericks

  13-05-2025 15:30
  Forward Matas Buzelis representing his team, The Chicago Bulls, who missed out on the top NBA Draft pick after a coin toss gave the Dallas Mavericks (represented by Rolando Blackman, left) better odds—and the No. 1 selection.
  A coin toss might’ve cost the Bulls Cooper Flagg.
  Chicago ended the season with the same record as the Dallas Mavericks. But in the pre-lottery tiebreaker, Dallas won the draw. That gave them the 11th-best odds for the No. 1 pick. The Bulls? Just behind, at 12th
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Dems are ‘Hogg’ tied after primary truce

  13-05-2025 14:00
  During the 1960s, activists under the age of 25 rejected the time-tested notion of incremental progress. They believed it was their generation’s duty to force societal change. When a reporter asked a young political activist during the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, who the elders behind their organization were, the activist said, “We don’t trust anyone over 30.”
  David Hogg, a Democratic National Committee vice chair, is 25 years old and d
  
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• Black Woman Born During Jim Crow Era Says She Can’t Get Real ID

  13-05-2025 13:30
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  A Black woman who was born during the Jim Crow Era says she’s unable to renew her driver’s license.
  According to CBS News, Janette Gantt Palmer, a 76-year-old retired postal worker from Miami, said she can’t obtain a Real ID license, now mandated by federal law, because she doesn’t have an official birth certificate or a U.S. passport.
  Gantt Palmer was born in February 1949 during segregation in Aiken, South Carolina. She never received a birth certifi
  
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