A new exhibit at the American Writers Museum featres prominent and lesser-known Black authors, poets, and journalists.
Tag: black power
Posted inArts & Culture
The Time Is Now! celebrates the black artists of the south side who used their work as a vehicle for social change
The Smart Museum exhibit and companion book provide a valuable historical record of Chicago art between 1960 and 1980.
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Haki Madhubuti has lived his life as an act of defiance
And the 76-year-old Chicago educator, essayist, activist, and founder of Third World Press is as radical as ever.
Posted inNews & Politics
Did the NBA blacklist former Chicago Bulls player Craig Hodges because of his political beliefs?
In his new book, Long Shot: The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter, the legendary three-point shooter recounts how his on-court success was stopped short by his outspokenness.
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Seeing the soul food in American cuisine’s mirror with author Adrian Miller
Thomas Jefferson’s mac and cheese jones, and other highlights from the history of soul food
Posted inMusic
In Rotation: Jeanine O’Toole of Bare Mutants on how to commemorate Jerry Garcia’s deathiversary
Current musical obsessions of Bare Mutants vocalist Jeanine O’Toole, and Eternals front man Damon Locks
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
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Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries “The Corner” and “Lord Thing” Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
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Before Shaft
The Block Museum kicks off its Gordon Parks photo exhibit with a Thursday screening of his film “The Learning Tree,” the first modern studio film by a black director.
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The father of Blaxploitation is back
Melvin Van Peebles’ “Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha” has its Chicago premiere tonight at the Parkway Ballroom.