COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Film Festival Comes To Englewood

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6 months ago
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  Filmmaker Mark Harris managed to bring a film festival to Englewood after much rejection and criticism.   There were no banners hung outside the entranceway to Lindblom — a Classical Revival-style building built in 1919 with city landmark status that is across the street from four boarded-up [...]
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50 Cent To Feed A Billion Africans In 5 Years | @50Cent

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9 months ago
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50 Cent has pledged to dedicate his time and resources to help feed a billion people in Africa over the course of the next 5 years. In case you don’t know whats going on in the rest of the world, read the following paragraphs to get an Idea why what 50 Cent is doing is so commendable. our [...]
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Haiti Remembers Earthquake Victims

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1 year ago
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Haiti is holding observances ahead of the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that shook the country, leaving more than 200,000 people dead, 1 million others homeless and widespread destruction. On Tuesday, President Rene Preval presided over a ceremony on the outskirts of the [...]
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Slashed Brooklyn Teen Speaks About Attack

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2 years ago
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Shantayah Lewis, 17, sat in her room at Kings County Hospital Saturday, calmly reflecting on the Friday afternoon attack that left her with dozens of stitches in the left side of her face. “My face is too beautiful to be fighting,” Shantayah told the Daily News. “Fighting is not the key. Violence [...]
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50th Anniversary of Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-In

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2 years ago
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Monday is opening day for the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., where a sit-in that changed America took place 50 years ago. It was February 1, 1960, that four black college freshmen walked up to the “whites only” lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth in Greensboro, [...]
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Wyclef’s Personal Statement on the Accusations Against Yele Haiti (Da Truth!)

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2 years ago
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Earlier this week, some bullshit watch dog website posted tax returns for the Yele Haiti foundation, claiming that the charitable organization had personally “enriched” the singer and citing payments for a New York recording studio co-owned by Jean and the former Fugees leader’s partnership in a [...]
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