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  2. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The classic Black Metropolis, written by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., exemplified the style of the Chicago writers. Today it remains the most detailed portrayal of Black Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s. Around the same time, the Nation of Islam (NOI) moved its headquarters to Chicago from Detroit.

  3. Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic - Wikipedia

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    Miss Black Illinois in the 2004 parade. U.S. Navy band marches in the 2008 parade. Anti-violence group for a Chicago high school in the 2008 parade. Hillcrest High School marching band in the 2008 parade. Bud Billiken is a fictional character created in 1923 by Abbott, who had been considering adding a youth section to the Chicago Defender ...

  4. Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District - Wikipedia

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    The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African-American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The neighborhood encompasses the land between the Dan Ryan Expressway to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the east, 31st Street to the north, and ...

  5. WMFN - Wikipedia

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    WMFN (640 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Black-oriented news format from the Black Information Network.The station is owned by Birach Broadcasting, and under a local marketing agreement with iHeartMedia, specifically its Chicago cluster.

  6. WVON - Wikipedia

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    WVON was a "heritage" station to Chicago's black community featuring great Black air personalities like Moses "Lucky" Cordell, Bruce Brown, Herb Kent "The Cool Gent", [20] [21] [22] E. Rodney Jones, [20] Cecil Hale, Joe "Youngblood" Cobb, [20] Ed "Nassau Daddy" Cook, Bill "Butterball" Crane, Pervis Spann, [14] [20] Don Cornelius, [20] Sid McCoy ...

  7. Harry Lennix Set to Establish Black Cultural Center in Chicago

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    For more than 20 years, Harry Lennix — an actor best known for his roles in TV shows and film such as “The Blacklist,” “Dollhouse” and “Justice League” — has been an advisor for ...

  8. Chicago gangbangers rage against newly arrived Venezuelan ...

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    But Terry Newsome, a white Chicago dad-turned-activist found there were 720 police incident reports logged at the Standard Club alone over the past 12 months.

  9. Chicago Black Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    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.