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• Area groups look to cover West Side with positivity

  26-06-2018 21:55
  A local nonprofit is looking to blanket a portion of the West Side with positivity next month when it hosts its Summer of Opportunity on Aug. 24. Read More...
  
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• Review: Doctor Who (Season one/Series 14)

  17-05-2024 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After 60-plus years as a strictly British institution, the BBC’s beloved long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who is finally taking the TARDIS across the pond. For the first time in the show’s history, instead of airing first in the UK and then internationally, Doctor Who will drop on Fridays on Disney+ in the United States (and […]
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• Review: Back to Black

  17-05-2024 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In its first five minutes, Back to Black all but looks directly at the audience and recites facts about Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) as if reading from a checklist: she’s a supremely talented singer with a flair for the dramatic and an old soul who can’t understand why other young people don’t like jazz. The […]
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• Review: IF

  17-05-2024 20:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a fine line between the whimsical dream logic of Roald Dahl and irritating, incoherent nonsense. Director John Krasinski’s new kids film IF is nowhere near that line. Despite the best efforts of the extremely talented child actor Cailey Fleming, IF makes no sense, narratively, emotionally, or visually. The only fun to be had is […]
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• Review: In the Fade

  17-05-2024 20:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fatih Akin’s 2017 In The Fade (Aus dem Nichts) starts out as a painful and necessary examination of the human costs of right-wing ideology and neo-Nazi violence. Reformed drug dealer, travel agent, and translator Nuri Şekerci (Numan Acar) and his son Rocco (Rafael Santana) are killed by a neo-Nazi nail bomb, leaving wife and mother […]
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• collected thesis statements

  17-05-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By JK Anowe
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• CCPSA nominees advance, Mohawk Johnson takes plea deal, First Nations Garden vandalized

  17-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  CCPSA nominees (mostly) move forward The City Council’s Police and Fire Committee on May 14 gave the nod to six of the seven candidates nominated to serve on the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). The nominees, selected by Mayor Brandon Johnson from a list of 15 people put forward by representatives from […]
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• Review: Thelma the Unicorn

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kids love unicorns. It’s just a fact. They’re sparkly, cute, and always have some kind of magical rainbow vibes radiating off of them. But what about boring old brown farm ponies? Does anyone care nearly as much about them—even if they’re imbued with a superstar singing voice? That’s the question at hand in Thelma the […]
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• Review: The Big Cigar (Miniseries)

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What can be said about an icon? Apple TV+’s The Big Cigar sets itself an impossible task: telling a meaningful story about one of the most compelling and provocative political figures of the 20th century, Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton. In 1966, Newton cofounded the party with Bobby Seale and served as its first […]
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• Levi Holloway’s Turret is a 21st-century Endgame

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’ve been looking for the 21st century’s answer to Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, your wait is over. Levi Holloway’s Turret, now in a world premiere (also directed by the playwright) with A Red Orchid Theatre, taps into the same existential dread and odd father-son dynamics present in Beckett’s 1957 masterpiece.  But Holloway (who won raves […]
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• Collaborative Bridges Breaks Ground on West Side Wellness Center

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  With a promise and passion to transform behavioral health services on the West Side of Chicago, Collaborative Bridges hosted a groundbreaking ceremony where enthusiastic Chicagoans gathered at their facility at 4223 West Lake Street to partake in the celebration. 
  Collaborative Bridges Wellness Center in West Garfield Park is a partnership of West Side Chicago safety net hospitals and community mental health agencies designed to ensure that the care of people experiencing mental health and
  
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• For the labor of art made transparent

  17-05-2024 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Tony Lewis, Devin T. Mays, and Ellen Rothenberg about their group exhibition “WORKS BY.” Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Tony Lewis, Bethany Collins, Devin T. Mays, and Ellen Rothenberg consider labor, effort, and value in the group show “WORKS BY” at the Neubauer Collegium […]
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• Chicago Native Serves At U.S. Navy Helicopter Squadron In Japan

  17-05-2024 15:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Chief Petty Officer Lauren Walter (Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Bryan Niegel).
  By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jerry Jimenez, Navy Office of Community Outreach
  NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, JAPAN. — Chief Petty Officer Lauren Walter, a native of Chicago, Illinois, serves in the U.S. Navy as a member of a helicopter squadron forward deployed to Japan.
  Walter graduated from John Hope College Preparatory High School in 2008.
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• 17-Year-Old Black Teen Who Started College At 10 Earns Doctoral Degree

  17-05-2024 14:15 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A Chicago teenager who took her first college course at age 10 recently earned a doctoral degree at 17.
  defended her dissertation at Arizona State University in December, becoming the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at the school. She participated in ASU’s commencement ceremony early this month, marking her latest achievement in higher education.
  “It’s a wonderful celebration, and we hope … that Dorothy Jean insp
  
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• Black Teen Earns Nearly $15M In Scholarships, Accepted Into 231 Schools

  17-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A high school senior in Georgia has been accepted into over 200 schools and awarded nearly $15 million in scholarships, per WJCL.
  18-year-old Madison Crowell, a senior at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, said she applied to hundreds of schools and was admitted into 231 of them. Crowell also garnered $14.7 million in scholarships.
  “I wanted to apply to as many schools as I did … because I’m coming from a low-income area of Georgia and so I
  
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• Watch: A Conversation with Men of Excellence

  16-05-2024 21:58 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• Shaker Barbeque beefs at the next Monday Night Foodball

  16-05-2024 18:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’re looking at 100 percent USDA prime brisket there, friendo, smoked over post oak for 14 hours until it melts like beef butter. Just like your daddy did. And by your daddy, I mean Daddy Mike Shaker of Shaker Barbeque, the former fine-dining cook turned central Texas-style smoker. He’s like the Miles Davis of barbecue: […]
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• Maritime movies at the Music Box

  16-05-2024 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In recent years, I’ve watched several of Peter Weir’s films—Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977), and The Mosquito Coast (1986)—and have rather liked them. He’s Australian, which may […]
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• Mayor Johnson On What He’s Done for Black Chicago After First Year: Part 2

  16-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  In this one-on-one, Nicole Jeanine Johnson sits down with Mayor Brandon Johnson as he reflects on his first year in office and what he plans to achieve moving forward. Below is part two of the full transcript, with appropriate edits for clarity. 
  Read Part 1 here.
  Q: What have been some of your biggest learnings? What would you have done differently?  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson: One of the things that I’ve learned over this year is that the remarkable resilience of the
  
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• UNCF To Honor Eight At ‘A Mind Is…’ Gala, June 15

  16-05-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  As a major event during the year-long 80th anniversary celebration of UNCF (United Negro College Fund), UNCF Chicago will recognize seven extraordinary individuals and one corporate supporter at its “A Mind Is…” (AMI) Gala, at 7 p.m., on June 15, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Visit uncf.org/Chicago.
  Rev. Otis and First Lady Monica Moss of Trinity United Church of Christ will receive the AMI Alumni Award. Ill. Senate Assistant Majority Leader, Sen. Mattie Hunter (3rd District);
  
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• $5.8M Settlement Reached Over Racism Allegations Against Chicago Water Dept

  16-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  The city of Chicago has tentatively agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the Water Department of fostering a culture of racial discrimination and harassment, CBS News reports.
  In the lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2017, 12 current and former Black employees of the Water Department alleged that they were humiliated, harassed, denied opportunities for advancement and additional pay, and threatened daily” by white supervisors and co-workers.
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• This Week In Black History May 15-21, 2024

  16-05-2024 05:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  MAY 151911—Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation’s leading Black fraternities, is founded on this day on the campus of Indiana University by 10 young men led by Elder W. Diggs and By­ron K. Armstrong.
  1942—The 93rd Infantry is acti­vated and assigned to combat in the Pacific. It thus became the first African American division formed during World War II.
  MAY 16
  1868—The United States Senate fails by one vote in securing the two-thirds vote needed to convict Presi­
  
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• Dr. Donald Suggs: Wake up, Black voters. Don’t let Trump’s lies fool you

  16-05-2024 04:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  by Dr. Donald Suggs
  ST. LOUIS AMERICAN—The fact that exit polls showed that Donald Trump received 9 percent of the Black vote in 2016, the highest number since George Bush in 2000, and then won 12 percent in the presidential race in 2020 should be a cause for concern.
  Moreover, some recent polls surprisingly showed that if the presidential election were held today, 17 percent of Black voters say they would vote for Trump, and even more troubling, 20 percent say they would vote for someone
  
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• Mayor Johnson On What He’s Done for Black Chicago After First Year: Part 1

  16-05-2024 00:54 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Nicole Jeanine Johnson to discuss how, in his first year, he made specific and intentional investments in Chicago’s historically divested Black community and the tension caused by migrant spending. Below is part one of the full transcript, with appropriate edits for clarity.
  Q: What do you regard as some of your biggest accomplishments? 
  Mayor Brandon Johnson: Serving in this capacity this first year has really been the joy of this particular phase in my
  
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• Bugged!

  15-05-2024 21:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Straggler!” I said, the insult popping from my lips the instant I spotted the creature. He was parked on a branch—his awkward tank of a body, banded with orange ridges, was supported by six toothpick legs and cloaked in gossamer wings. I couldn’t tell which of his three black and two red eyes might be […]
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• Tary Coffee House brings ancient preservation techniques from the central Asian steppes to River North

  15-05-2024 21:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last weekend, chef Ratbek Sadvakasov was competing in the Top Chef Challenge at the Vegan Women Summit in Hollywood. He served vivid and carefully composed plates of Impossible Beef meatballs with golden millet, spinach, pumpkin cream, and honey, garnished with steamed broccoli and dried raspberry powder. Sadvakasov is not a vegan. Nor is his restaurant, […]
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• The power of Ten

  15-05-2024 20:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What started as a birthday party celebration for the Gift has since become an annual tradition, featuring ten ten-minute plays by a variety of playwrights. Adding to the numerical energy, each play is also rehearsed for ten hours before being performed . . . you guessed it, ten times. In defiance of rising entertainment costs, […]
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• Green Dreams at DeSalvo’s Pizza

  15-05-2024 20:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. I’ve had my Green Dreams thick—somewhere between Detroit-style and Sicilian, dough pocked with all those focaccia-y bubbles—but let’s be real: this slice […]
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• Chicago’s arcade evolution

  15-05-2024 20:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Imagine a typical video game arcade. Filling the aisles, there are probably some classic games like Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga, or maybe newer ones like Mortal Kombat or Need for Speed. The thumping of bumpers and flippers from pinball machines mixes with blips and beeps from video cabinets to create ambient background noise. Maybe the […]
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• ‘This is deeply rooted in who I am’

  15-05-2024 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  More Palestinians call Cook County home than any other county in the United States. I’ve often thought of the local Palestinian diaspora in the months since Israel launched its military assault on Gaza. I’m a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights and sovereignty and an Israeli citizen through my father, and I oppose the genocide Israel […]
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