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Home » black power

Tag: black power

Posted inNews & Politics

Writers on the wall

by Debbie-Marie Brown September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

A new exhibit at the American Writers Museum featres prominent and lesser-known Black authors, poets, and journalists.

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

by Deanna Isaacs November 8, 2018August 18, 2021

The Smart Museum exhibit and companion book provide a valuable historical record of Chicago art between 1960 and 1980.

Posted inArts & Culture

Haki Madhubuti has lived his life as an act of defiance

by Patrick T. Reardon August 29, 2018August 18, 2021

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?

by Ben Joravsky December 14, 2016August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Seeing the soul food in American cuisine’s mirror with author Adrian Miller

by Michael Gebert May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

Thomas Jefferson’s mac and cheese jones, and other highlights from the history of soul food

Ras G, Back on the Planet
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Jeanine O’Toole of Bare Mutants on how to commemorate Jerry Garcia’s deathiversary

by Miles Raymer August 9, 2013August 19, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Bare Mutants vocalist Jeanine O’Toole, and Eternals front man Damon Locks

Posted inArts & Culture

A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation

by Mara Shalhoup April 3, 2013August 19, 2021

A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang

Posted inBlogs

Lord Thing and The Corner

by Ed M. Koziarski June 27, 2011August 19, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Reviewed: Goose Island Stout Fest

by Philip Montoro March 14, 2010August 19, 2021

Night Stalker, Rind Grind, and Abduction, oh my!

Posted inBlogs

Before Shaft

by Ed M. Koziarski April 20, 2009August 19, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

The father of Blaxploitation is back

by Ed M. Koziarski April 10, 2009August 19, 2021

Melvin Van Peebles’ “Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha” has its Chicago premiere tonight at the Parkway Ballroom.

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