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Chicago mural honors Ida B. Wells: 'She was a rebel and one of a kind'

In honor of Black History Month, a new painting was unveiled Friday celebrating Chicagoan Ida B. Wells.

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Clarence Page: What's so wrong about 'respectability?' Let's start with hair | Clarence Page

Let’s talk about hair.

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Clarence Page: What's so wrong about 'respectability?' Let's start with hair

Clarence Page: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair
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Four-year-old Gus "Jett" Hawkins plays with mother, Ida Nelson, in Chicago on May 21, 2021.
Let’s talk about hair.
Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical “Hair” theme song: “Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh …!”
Stop the music. I mean real hair!
And respectability. Let’s talk about that too.
The “politics of respectability” have taken a real beating lately, even from people who have benefited from practicing it.
All of these themes came to mind in a bill proposed by freshman state Sen. Mike Simmons — a North Side Democrat appointed to the seat earlier this year — who, like my own millennial son, has a robust headful of dreadlocks.

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Column: What's so wrong about 'respectability?' Let's start with hair.

Column: What's so wrong about 'respectability?' Let's start with hair.
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Endangered buildings 2021: Preservation Chicago names Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, six others

The historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration, made Preservation Chicago’s list of the city’s “7 Most Endangered Buildings” on Thursday. Supporters are fighting to save the home that’s poised to be torn down.
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The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, a historic settlement house in Bronzeville established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s to aid African American women coming from the South during the Great Migration, was named one of Chicago’s most endangered buildings Wednesday by Preservation Chicago.

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Owner, supporters fight to save historic Phyllis Wheatley Home from city demolition block

The city is poised to tear down the historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house named for the former slave who was the first African American ever to publish a book of poetry, and third American woman ever to do so. The home was established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration.
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When Ariajo “Joanne” Tate and her husband bought a gray limestone in 1989, they had no idea their new Bronzeville home had once been the Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home — a historic settlement house established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s.

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