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Book Review: Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance

by Malik Jackson August 20, 2021August 20, 2021

ost cultural movements start small: in the bedrooms of budding orators, around the table at a thrifty pub, or in the margins of an artist’s sketchbook. But humble beginnings are foundations nonetheless. Their  influence, as history tells us, can grow from four people around a table to 4,000 people across a city—all that’s necessary is […]

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History, Home by Home: A new examination of Hyde Park and Kenwood paints a pleasantly thorough but incomplete picture

by Sam Joyce July 22, 2020July 25, 2020
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by Yunhan Wen May 23, 2017May 25, 2017
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The Past and Future of the SECC

by Anne Li and Mari Cohen April 26, 2017August 19, 2017
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