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Rashaun Williams Is a Venture Capitalist Who Gives the Game Away for Free; Have a Seat and Learn Something
Rashaun Williams is a recovering investment banker and current venture capitalist. He worked at Goldman Sachs and other firms for 13 years before moving to the West Coast to get into the tech world. He is a general partner at Manhattan Venture Partners’ All-Star Fund, a late-stage tech company focused on investing in unicorns like…
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Teen Girl Was Sold to Pimp for $250 Before She Was Murdered: Report
Federal prosecutors have secured their first conviction in the brutal case of a 16-year-old Chicago girl who was murdered on Christmas Eve in 2016. On Tuesday, Charles McFee, 26, admitted to a judge that he delivered Desiree Robinson to an alleged pimp for a “finder’s fee” of $250 in December of that year. Within a…
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Sunday Sermon: Jennifer Hudson Assures Us That ‘the Times They Are a-Changin’’
It’s a powerful thing to channel your pain into positive change. On Saturday, Jennifer Hudson did just that when she took to the stage at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., to sing a soul-stirring rendition of Bob Dylan’s protest anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” Backed by a multicultural local choir,…
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Nazi Has Secured GOP Nomination for Chicago-Area Congressional Seat
A Republican Holocaust denier shunned by his own party will be the GOP nominee for a congressional seat representing a heavily Democratic Chicago suburb. Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi Party, managed to secure the nomination by running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. As The Hill reports, Jones is an unrepentant anti-Semite and…
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Hannibal Buress Kicked Offstage for Joking About Catholic Priests Molesting Kids
Hannibal Buress has become a victim of his debilitating affliction known as having “no chill” after he was kicked offstage at a Chicago university Saturday for joking about the Roman Catholic Church’s history of sexual assault. According to Consequence of Sound, before performing at Chicago’s Loyola University, a Jesuit college, Buress received an email dictating…
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Reporters Uncover ‘Real Story’ Behind Chicago’s Gun-Death Stats, Black Flight From the City
Heroic Medics Keep Toll From Rising Even Higher; School Closings Drove Many Blacks to Leave City’ 700 Honor Editor, Historian Lerone Bennett Jr.” Bethel McKenzie Named SPJ Executive Director In Debate Over Arming Teachers, What About Race? Idea of Cultural Affinity Escapes Assigning Editors Stephanie Mehta Named Editor of Fast Company Grayson Mitchell, Reporter, Political…
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Chicago Blackhawks Ban 4 Fans From Home Games After They Chanted ‘Basketball’ at Black NHL Player
The Chicago Blackhawks have barred four fans from their home games after the Washington Capitals’ Devante Smith-Pelly was subjected to racist chants while playing in Chicago over the weekend. Smith-Pelly is, unfortunately, no stranger to racism on the ice and immediately knew what was going on when a few fans started chanting, “Basketball, basketball, basketball”…
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There’s a Reason a TV Station Mixed Up P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang—and It’s Predictably Trash
Asian Americans are killing it at the Olympic Games so far, which would be a great story for one Chicago-area news station to cover—if it could just remember where the hell the Olympics were happening. Hint: It’s not gotdamn P.F. Chang’s. Now, before you hit me with Anne, no one is seriously mixing up P.F.…
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Illinois Man, Mistaken for Robbery Suspect, Wrongfully Detained in Incident That Left Him Injured, Unable to Work: Report
An Evanston, Ill., man is filing a police-misconduct complaint after he says he was injured while being detained by police officers who were looking for a robbery suspect last week. According to the Chicago Tribune, 60-year-old Gregory Hall was walking down Main Street the afternoon of Jan. 22 after spending some time in the south…
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Teenage Boys Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl on Facebook Live Given 5 Years’ Probation
Two teenage boys in Chicago who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and broadcast it on Facebook Live in March 2017 were sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and ordered to register as sexual offenders. The Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County Juvenile Division Judge Patricia Mendoza had already indicated she would sentence the teens…