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The museum has a 466-seat auditorium, which is part of the new wing, that hosts community-related events, such as a jazz and blues music series, poetry readings, film screenings, and other cultural events. The museum also has a gift shop and a research library. [18] The museum's funding is partially dependent upon a Chicago Park District tax ...
A 2021 report from the Chicago Tribune stated that thousands of Black families have left Chicago in the past decade, lowering the Black population by about 10%. [49] Politico reported that Chicago's once wealthy Black community has dramatically declined with the shuttering of many Black-owned companies. [ 50 ]
Former President Donald Trump is planning to attend the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday. In a statement released Monday night, the Trump ...
Near Peoria's malls on May 31, businesses closed early and police blocked mall access. No protests or other crowds gathered near Northwoods Mall that night, [37] [38] but looting at other locations were reported. A local black man was later arrested on federal criminal charges for posting Facebook videos from various business areas, from 5 p.m ...
Located on 4343 S. Cottage Grove Ave, in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, this center is intended to act as a performing arts space dedicated to Black artists and creators, with a museum that ...
It began the week in 2013 that George Zimmerman was exonerated for the killing of Trayvon Martin, as a convening of 100 black millennials, among them students, artists and trained organizers. A University of Chicago political scientist provided guidance, and BYP100 grew to several chapters across the country, with headquarters in Chicago.
Events like Saturday’s march in Ohio “are designed to create fear and anxiety in communities,” Segal told CNN’s Jim Acosta this week, “but also to act as almost like a photo opportunity ...
Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.