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Endangering the lives of children: the ceaseless train of tragedy in segregated neighborhoods
Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago
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Spike Lee ripped the cover off urban America for my 13-year-old self with his 1989 tour de force. He speaks and signs copies of his photo memoir "Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing" 12/24 at Barbara's Bookstore at Maxwell Street, er, University Village.
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The documentary "Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon," about the Afrobeat pioneer, screens Thursday in the Black World Cinema Series.
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A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works.
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One last thing on the Nobel Prize
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King, Chicago, and memory
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Alderman Ed "Polonius" Burke
Alderman Ed Burke offers great thoughts from great thinkers as the council spends millions to build condominiums.
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