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• Transilience celebrates trans and queer artists

  08-07-2025 21:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Transilience: A Trans Pride Festival, 7/10-7/12 at Humboldt Park, Hamilton Park, and Gill Park
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• CHIRP mourns a pillar of its volunteer community

  08-07-2025 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Independent Radio Project debuted as an online broadcast in January 2010. To this day, only founder and general manager Shawn Campbell draws a salary—CHIRP is otherwise staffed entirely by volunteers. At present, more than 250 people are involved. Clarence Ewing worked for the station from year one—Campbell remembers meeting him at a new volunteer […]
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• Memorial Foundation Awards Over $1 Million in HBCU Scholarships at Global Youth Conference in The Bahamas

  08-07-2025 17:18
  More than $1 million in scholarships were awarded to high-achieving international students at the Fourth Annual Global Youth Leadership Conference (GYLC) in Nassau, The Bahamas, organized by The Memorial Foundation in partnership with a host of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
  Held in late-spring 2025, the day-long summit welcomed more than 500 juniors and seniors—both in-person and virtually—to the University of The Bahamas, offering students a direct connection
  
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• Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Co-Founder and Gospel Legend Lou Della Evans-Reid Dies at 94

  08-07-2025 16:00
  
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  Dr. Lou Della Evans-Reid, the last living founder of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and a legendary figure in gospel music, has died. She was 94.
  “When an elder dies, it’s as if a library has been burned to the ground,” said Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe Jr., reflecting on her passing.
   “We are losing a church historian,” he said. “We’re losing a lady whose dedication helped build the family of Fellowship Missionary Baptist
  
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• Bobby Rush Urges Jesse Jackson Jr. to Run for Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District Seat

  08-07-2025 15:30
  
  The clamor is growing louder for Jesse Jackson, Jr. to run for his old seat. And while the former 2nd district Congressman has not declared his intentions, he has gained support from multiple people in recent days. But one prominent voice has chimed in: retired U.S. Rep Bobby Rush, a civil rights icon who also represented Illinois’ 1st district for three decades.
  “Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a strong, proven voice, an accomplished legislator, and a passionate advocate for the marginalized
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Joy Reid, Iran, and the non-proliferation treaty

  08-07-2025 14:30
  
  After President Donald Trump’s military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities with B-52 bombers, former MSNBC host Joy Reid appeared on the popular radio program The Breakfast Club, where she declared Israel wanted to be the sole superpower in the Middle East.
  Reid argued that Israel initiated a war against Iran to establish regional dominance and that Israel’s claim that it was preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons was a pretext to attack.
  Reid also contrasted nuc
  
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• Inside an American concentration camp

  08-07-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Who would lock up a three-year-old?” This is the repeated refrain in the first chapter of Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Tracy Slater. Elaine Buchman Yoneda—the daughter of Jewish immigrants who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe and the wife of Karl Yoneda, a […]
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