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Long-time HIV/AIDS Survivor Rae Lewis-Thorton Shares Her Deeply Personal Journey in New Memoir
We spoke with Rae Lewis-Thornton about “Unprotected,” the story of the lasting impact abuse had on her well-being
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Civil Rights Activist and Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
Black worked with many activists including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr., who would become a close confidante.
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The Story of Chicago’s 1st Black Mayor Will Be Told in a New Limited Series From Fosse/Verdon Writer Ike Holter
Chi-Town, stand up! The life of an influential political figure and Chicago’s first Black mayor Harold Washington will soon be headed to a screen near us. Deadline announced today that Fosse/Verdon writer Ike Holter will pen the script for the limited series under Paylocity founder Steve Sarowitz and Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios. The untitled project…
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Chicago Was Founded by Blackness—and We're Still Its Foundation
On the northeast corner of the bridge that joins the southern stretch of Michigan Avenue to the northern portion known as “The Magnificent Mile,” there stands an elegant, life-sized bronze bust of a black man. The man? Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, the Haitian-born fur trader who was the area’s first non-indigenous settler and is…
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