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Music, Music Feature Nov 21, 2018
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Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade

Saba’s Care for Me memorializes his cousin John Walt, whose generous spirit also survives in the arts nonprofit that bears his name—which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Walter Long Jr., John Walt, Dinner With John, Nachelle Pugh, Tyrone Jones, Pivot Gang, Saba, Joseph Chilliams, MFn Melo, Frsh Waters, Squeak, Squeak Pivot, John Walt Foundation, nonprofit, Care for Me, Prom/King, St. Joseph High, Noname, Young Chicago Authors, YCA, YouMedia, Harold Washington Library, WordPlay, Lyricist Lounge, Kevin Coval, Concord Music Hall, Kemo Walk, Never, Crucial Conflict, DaWreck, Triple Darkness, St. Malachy School, Gordon Technical High School, DePaul College Prep, Link Unlimited, Austin College & Career Academy, Summer Learning Program, Saint Louis Christian College, the Rally, Von, Chill Taught Me, Robert Morris University, Mick Jenkins, Alex Wiley, Lucki, Jean Deaux, Dally Auston, Vic Mensa, Chance the Rapper, Jimmy, Liu Kang, Fort Knox, Heart of the City, Jon Cuevas, Get Happy 2.0, Tha Heartstoppa, Dae Dae, Chad, Ken Ross, Comfort Zone, Fake Shore Drive, Calligraphy, Smile, Work for Me, Bucket List Project, Kevin Alexander, Rebecca Hunter, Ayesha Jaco, Lupe Fiasco, M.U.R.A.L., Donnie Smith, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, Donda’s House, Art of Culture, Daoud, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Raych Jackson, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 15, 2016
Congo Square’s A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Black Ensemble’s The Marvin Gaye Story, and ten more new theater reviews

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bars and Measures, Idris Goodwin, Osiris Khepera, Anthony Conway, Tara Branham, John Keats, The Dark Ages: Otho the Great, The Divine Sister, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Charles Busch, David Cerda, Shade Murray, Charlotte Mae Ellison, Chad, Hauptmann, John Logan, Denis O'Hare, Terry McCabe, Bruno Hauptmann, Lindberg kidnapping, George Seegebrecht, Brian Pastor, The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, Tracey Power, Theatre-Hikes, Eldridge Shannon III, William Goff, Felix Mayes, Timothy Sullivan, The Marvin Gaye Story: Don't Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend, Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gay Sr., Rashawn Thompson, Henri Watkins, Lake Forest Theatre, The Secret Garden, Steve Malone, Edward Fraim, A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Congo Square Theater, Lekethia Dalcoe, Harry Lennix, Mary Turner, lynchings, The Sound of Music, Kerstin Anderson, Ben Davis, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jack O'Brien, A Storm of Limbs, Piebenga Plumbing, Tapped: A Treasonous Musical Comedy, Jed Levine and Brad Kemp, Holly Gombita, Molly Todd Madison, Laureen Siciliano, The Untold, Untrue Love Story of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Grace Perry, Lyndsay Rush, Sarah Ashley, iO Theater

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 7/21: Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Celebrate Clark Street, Protomartyr, and more

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, July 21
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Dawes Park, Celebrate Clark Street, H'sao, Chad, vallenato, Beto Jamaica, Boogat, Funkadesi, Vicios de Papa, Parquet Courts, Protomartyr, Joe Casey, Outside World

Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2011
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Now Playing: A Screaming Man

Black World Cinema presents Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Chadian drama A Screaming Man.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Black World Cinema, Chatham 14, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, A Screaming Man movie, Chicago International Film Festival, Dry Season movie, F.W. Murnau, The Last Laugh movie, film series, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2009
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Making waves

Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Obama, Africa, Kenya, Bob Hercules, Senator Obama Goes to Africa, Bruce Orenstein, Saul Alinsky, Chicago Independent Film Festival, South Africa, Chad, community organizer, Eva Kor, Holocaust, Auschwitz, Josef Mengele, Mengele Twins, forgiveness, Forgiving Dr. Mengele, Democratic Promise, Cheri Pugh, survivor, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jun 24, 2004
Abouna (Our Father)
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, Drama, Islam, American, French, Arabic

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Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade

Saba’s Care for Me memorializes his cousin John Walt, whose generous spirit also survives in the arts nonprofit that bears his name—which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.

Congo Square’s A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Black Ensemble’s The Marvin Gaye Story, and ten more new theater reviews

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.

Reader's Agenda Sun 7/21: Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Celebrate Clark Street, Protomartyr, and more

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, July 21

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Now Playing: A Screaming Man

Black World Cinema presents Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Chadian drama A Screaming Man.

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Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.

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Video Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade

Saba’s Care for Me memorializes his cousin John Walt, whose generous spirit also survives in the arts nonprofit that bears his name—which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.

Congo Square’s A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, Black Ensemble’s The Marvin Gaye Story, and ten more new theater reviews

Two African-American companies present revelatory dramas.

Reader's Agenda Sun 7/21: Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Celebrate Clark Street, Protomartyr, and more

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, July 21

Video Now Playing: A Screaming Man

Black World Cinema presents Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Chadian drama A Screaming Man.

Video Making waves

Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.

Abouna (Our Father)

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Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade

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