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19/03/2023

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01/03/2023

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23/01/2023

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23/01/2023

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Reverend Jesse Jackson takes his annual trek to Cook County Jail
Chicago, IL-The Reverend Jesse Jackson and Bishop Tavis Grant, the acting national executive director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition will visit the Cook County Jail this Saturday, January 21, 2023 at10am. This is the first leg of Reverend Jackson’s “Keep Hope Alive Tour,” that he’s making around the country to reconnect returning citizens to the fabric of family and community.

“We cannot throw people away; especially those who are seeking redemption and wholesome reconnection to our communities. Too many are incarcerated today and are consumed in a for-profit system of criminal justice. “Too many spend more time in pre-trial detention without being sentenced. We must break this cycle with comprehensive reform that allows people to regain a place of value in our communities”, says Jackson.

Bishop Tavis Grant, the acting national executive director, will accompany Reverend Jackson, along with a host of elected officials, pastors, and stakeholders. “Reverend Jackson has set a course to redeem the lost. We walk in his footsteps to extend ourselves in this mission to save lives.

These men and women still bare the opportunity to be examples of change and transformation. Some of our greatest contributors to our society have gone through the prison system and came out to never return. “Over 5,000 inmates men and women are housed here. Many are parents, students, many are first time offenders. We have a moral obligation to offer them every opportunity to come out of here better than they came here,” says Grant.

The Rainbow Push Coalition will talk to inmates and their families about enrolling in educational programs, substance and mental health treatment, being registered to vote, and coming out of the institution with a blueprint for a better life.

17/01/2023

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“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness...I just want to leave a committed life behind.”

14/01/2023

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Happy Birthday to Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, born January 2, 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 🎺

📷: A five-year-old Trombone Shorty plays at a jazz funeral in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue

14/01/2023

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Jazz Fest 2023 Music Lineup!
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View the full lineup and purchase tickets at www.nojazzfest.com

10/01/2023

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“Artini” is back !!!!

Save the date next Thursday 1/19/23
6-9 pm at Gallery Guichard

Come out and enjoy great people, Tito’s hand crafted vodka cocktails complementary first hour , DJ Marcell and amazing art / the closing reception of our current exhibit “Divinity in Blue” by D.Lammie Hansen.

RSVP today : https://bit.ly/artini_dlammie-hansonsoloexhibit

06/01/2023

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Adrienne Irmer for 5th Ward Alderperson is your neighbor, your friend, your advocate, and she's running Adrienne is running because she wants to leverage her diverse work and lived-experience to best-serve the 5th Ward as Alderperson. 👏

06/01/2023

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Josephine Baker was described as "The most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will."

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, Josephine experienced poverty in childhood, living in cardboard shelters in the slums and dancing on the street to make money. However, the street dancing turned into performing in a vaudeville act, as she pestered a show manager for a role. For that show, she traveled to New York, and her career had begun.

While performing in New York was a good start, her big break came in Paris, where she moved in her late teens to leave the racism of America. In Paris, she thrived. Her dancing life found much success. And it was also while living in Europe that Josephine evolved her artistic career into singing and acting.

Josephine continued to live in Europe. Even as World War II involved France, she chose to stay, joining the French Military Intelligence Agency. In her role with the agency, she used her entertainer status to travel around Europe. And with charm, she engaged others, collecting valuable information, often keeping notes in invisible ink on sheet music.

After the war, Josephine took a more active role in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. She wrote articles about segregation, worked closely with NAACP, spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, and refused to perform in segregated venues - a stance that helped drive integration. It was also during her years of working in the Civil Rights movement that Josephine began adopting children, calling her family the "Rainbow Tribe," as her children were of different races and ethnicities.

Josephine passed away in Paris in 1975. France honored her with a state funeral; she is the only American-born woman to receive this honor.

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Sources: "The most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will." - quote from Ernest Hemingway / Portrait of Josephine Baker taken in 1940 / Studio Harcourt / Wikimedia Commons

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30/12/2022

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Pelé, who is universally considered the greatest soccer player who has ever lived, has died. He was 82. The death of the all-time great was confirmed by his daughter, Kely Nascimento, who posted a loving celebration of his life and legacy on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. “Everything that we are, is th...

28/12/2022

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Creators of color have spoken out about inequality in the influencer industry for years. But disparity in PR lists recently sparked debate on TikTok.

27/12/2022

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She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade ci**rs. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Mary Fields was an intimidating woman.

Mary lived in Montana, in a town called Cascade. She was a special member of the community there. All schools would close on her birthday, and though women were not allowed entry into saloons, she was given special permission by the mayor to come in anytime and to any saloon she liked.

But Mary wasn’t from Montana. She was born into enslavement in Tennessee sometime in the early 1830s, and lived enslaved for more than thirty years until slavery was abolished. As a free woman, life led her first to Florida to work for a family and then Ohio when part of the family moved.

When Mary was 52, her close friend who lived in Montana became ill with pneumonia. Upon hearing the news, Mary dropped everything and came to nurse her friend back to health. Her friend soon recovered and Mary decided to stay in Montana settling in Cascade.

Her beginning in Cascade wasn’t smooth. To make ends meet, she first tried her hand at the restaurant business. She opened a restaurant, but she wasn’t much of a chef. And she was also too generous, never refusing to serve a customer who couldn’t pay. So the restaurant failed within a year.

But then in 1895, when in her sixties, Mary, or as “Stagecoach Mary” as she was sometimes called because she never missed a day of work, became the second woman and first African American to work as a mail carrier in the U.S. She got the job because she was the fastest applicant to hitch six horses.

Eventually she retired to a life of running a laundry business. And babysitting all the kids in town. And going to baseball games. And being friends with much of the townsfolk.

This was Mary Fields. A rebel, a legend.

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16/12/2022

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Harvard University’s next president is Claudine Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants and first Black woman to lead the university. Gay is set to begin her presidency next summer.

14/12/2022

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12/12/2022

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Karen Bass was sworn in Sunday as Los Angeles' 43rd mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office.

09/12/2022

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