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• Starving to feed the rich

  22-05-2025 23:29 via chicagoreader.com
  As a child, I felt so fancy when we used the purple food stamps. Those were the pretty ones. We were a hardworking and loving family. My parents ensured we weren’t around anyone who tried to make us feel “less than” for needing help to make ends meet. That’s just reality in the U.S. When […]
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• Dozzy’s Grill lights up an afternoon West African barbecue at the next Monday Night Foodball

  22-05-2025 18:19 via chicagoreader.com
  Mai suya mostly come out at night. They light the charcoal, thread the spicy peanut-dusted beef onto the skewers, and get grilling. “It’s the most consumed street food in Nigeria and throughout West Africa,” says Dozzy Ibekwe. “At nighttime, pretty much in every metropolis street corner, there is someone selling suya.” But Ibekwe, the city’s […]
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• ‘Stepping in the Park’ Returns May 25 to Garfield Park as Celebration of Peace, Youth, and Community

  22-05-2025 16:00
  
   The fifth annual “Stepping in the Park Toward Nonviolence,” hosted by Shrone Conaway’s nonprofit To Walk in My Shoes, takes place May 25 in Garfield Park. The free event offers food, fun, family, and job opportunities for local youth (Photo Provided). 
  For West Side Chicago’s own Shrone Conaway, there’s only one reason she does the work she does.
  “I’m still saving the community that saved me, and we’re still here,” said Conaway.&nb
  
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• Daley Plaza Farmers Market Returns May 22 with Fresh Produce, Local Vendors, and Weekly Events

  22-05-2025 14:45
  
  Photo Credit: Patrick L. Pyszka, City of Chicago
  Chicagoans looking to kick off their Thursdays with fresh fruit, garden blooms, and made-from-scratch treats can head to Daley Plaza starting this week. The city’s oldest farmers market is officially back.
  The Daley Plaza Farmers Market opens for the season on Thursday, May 22, and will run every Thursday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. through October 23. Located in the heart of the Loop at 50 W. Washington St., the market will once again host more t
  
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• Black St. Louis Recovering From Deadly Tornadoes After Sirens, FEMA Failed

  22-05-2025 14:00
  
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  Black residents in St. Louis are calling attention to failed warning sirens and a lack of FEMA response after deadly tornadoes hit their community, Capital B reports.
  Last week, an EF-3 tornado raged through St. Louis’ Black neighborhoods. The tornado left five people, including three children, dead in collapsed buildings. Historic Black businesses, including the Harlem Tap Room, and thousands of buildings, homes, and schools, were damaged and destroyed.
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• Best AI Sex Chatbot Sites of 2025

  22-05-2025 13:38 via chicagoreader.com
  Reviews | FAQ | Updates Finding the best AI sex chat sites can feel like stepping into a whole new world, a customizable one, made for steamy conversations, intimate roleplay, or flirtatious escapism. AI companions have come a long way in recent years and they’re now capable of creating engaging and immersive experiences with humans […]
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• Trump’s DOJ Dropping Police Reform Agreements With Louisville, Minneapolis

  22-05-2025 13:30
  
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  The Department of Justice is withdrawing from federal settlement agreements with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville that called for sweeping police reform in the wake of George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s deaths, per Newsweek.
  Under the Biden administration, settlements, known as consent decrees, were reached between the cities and the DOJ following federal investigations into policing spurred by the killings of Taylor and Floyd in 2020. The c
  
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• Everything dope (including the pope) comes from Chicago

  22-05-2025 08:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Unless you have been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you have already heard the news about the newly elected pope of the Catholic Church being from Chicago (technically, the Chicago area). There was a lot of excitement in town and on the Internet when the news broke; I know I enjoyed the hundreds of […]
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• This Week In Black History May 21-27, 2025

  22-05-2025 06:55
  
  MAY 21
  1862—Mary Jane Patterson be­comes the first Black woman in U.S. History to be awarded a master’s degree. She earned it from Oberlin College in Ohio.2009—NFL star quarterback Michael Vick is released from federal prison after serving 19 months of a 23-month sentence for financing a dog fighting ring. Formerly with the Atlanta Fal­cons, Vick finished his career with the Philadelphia Eagles.2009—A Black man—James Young—is elected mayor of Phil­
  
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