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• Outrage your favorite Philadelphians when Morgan Street Snacks returns to the next Monday Night Foodball

  30-12-2025 21:49 via chicagoreader.com
  Did you catch wind of the amusing tempest in a teapot in late November when the Michelin Guide tried to weigh in on cheesesteaks in the City of Brotherly Love? Philadelphians all but chucked batteries at Bibendum when the tire company awarded Bib Gourmands to two “avant-grade” hoagie houses that bake their own bread and […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Racist slur nullifies stabbing?

  30-12-2025 18:37 via chicagodefender.com
  Jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal trial returns a not guilty verdict despite clear evidence that the defendant broke the law. Nullification is not part of the criminal procedure, but it does happen for various reasons. The jury may believe that a law is unjust, the sentence is excessive, or the entire criminal justice system is unfair to marginalized groups.
  On July 7, in Portland, Oregon, Gary Edwards, a 43-year-old home­less Black man, stabbed Gregory Howard Jr., a 43-ye
  
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• Ben Jealous:  When tough times come to Main Street, love matters even more

  30-12-2025 18:29 via chicagodefender.com
  (TriceEdneyWire.com)—This week’s column was supposed to be a celebra­tion. A celebration of a wonderful little toy store in a joyful Midwestern town. A store that, heartbreakingly, is scheduled to close the week after Christmas. But circumstances intervened.Yellow Springs, Ohio, is the kind of place that makes you smile the moment you step onto its main street. The kind of Main Street Generation X—and every generation before us—assumed would always exist. The kind th
  
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• Review: Marty Supreme

  30-12-2025 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Marty Supreme in wide release in theaters
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• Manufacturing Global Crises Won’t Give U.S. Foreign Policy Legitimacy

  30-12-2025 03:29 via chicagodefender.com
  by Jared O. BellFor anyone paying even modest attention to the current administration’s foreign policy posture, a Christmas Day bombing justified as “protecting Christians from ISIS” in Nigeria was neither shocking nor clarifying. It fits a familiar rhetorical script. What it did not fit was reality.Nigeria’s violence is real, devastating, and long-standing, but it is not best understood as a campaign of religious extermination. Insecurity there is driven primarily by la
  
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