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The Chicago Defender presents a guide to Chicago's Black History Month events and activities that highlight Black excellence.

The man often comes through in the notebooks, ideas for books to write, things to tell to other musicians like Davis and Mingus, a reminder of the right size suspenders to wear, admonishments on how he’s treating himself. His thinking about himself in the notebooks is self-critical, but there’s no direct line from this to the ideas that come out through his horn. But that’s the elusiveness of the great artists, they are great because they think of things others can’t, and it’s so inherent to their beings; there’s no way to explain it.

Celebrating Black History Month in and around Hyde Park is special. This year, the mid-South Side, where much Black history has been and continues to be made, has no shortage

A look back at the Black creativity that shaped arts and culture on campus and laid the groundwork for current arts programming at UMass Amherst.

The challenges faced and overcome by the United States’ first African American astronauts will be celebrated Thursday when the 13th annual Honolulu African American Film Festival opens with a gala screening of “The Space Race” at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre.