Summertime Chi is right around the corner and the folks at the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is really trying to impress us with this year’s Taste of Chicago 2016 music concert line-up. Well…I’m thoroughly impressed.
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The African-American Conductor: James DePreist
James DePreist. Born in Philadelphia in 1936, DePreist won the Dmitri Mitropoulos conducting competition while still a young man. He served as Leonard Bernstein’s assistant at the New York Philharmonic.
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Black Hair is Finally Fashionable.
Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they are still too often measuring their beauty by the yardstick of whiteness
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‘New Slaves’ Lets African-American
Sometimes, all it takes to help adapt to an unfamiliar world is talking it out with someone who shares the struggle.
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Indy’s Oldest African-American Church
Indianapolis’ oldest African-American church has been sold. With it goes the last of what was left of Indiana Avenue, historically the mecca of black culture in the city.
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Uhuru Activists Decry Centuries of “Terror and Genocide”
A crowd of approximately 25 members of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) and the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) gathered Saturday morning at the intersection of 2nd Avenue S and 9th Street, the site of the brutal 1914 lynching of John Evans, an African-American laborer.
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Aisha Tyler: African-American Teens Should “Be Brave”
“What would we be like if black people didn’t go into the heart and didn’t try to change things?” she asks.
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Poll: Blacks More Focused on Community Violence, Not Police Violence
In a poll recently conducted by YouGov, a majority of African-American respondents surveyed nationally share the view that community violence (or structural neighborhood violence popularly referred to as “Black-on-Black crime”) is a larger problem than racial injustice in the criminal justice system.
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Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights to 200K Ex-felons
More than 200,000 former convicted felons will be eligible to vote and run for public office in Virginia under a sweeping executive order, which was announced Friday by Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
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Ben Carson Backs Donald Trump,
Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address systemic racial disparities affecting the Black people, if the billionaire businessman wins the presidential election in November.
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