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Don’t Care Bears. Hilarious.

• July 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Art, Arts & Culture, Commentary, Printed Matters, style
Tags: Alex Solis, Care Bears, Don't Care Bears, Threadless

The Return of Captain EO: This was it.

• July 2, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts & Culture, Commentary, Events, Film and Television, Music, Visual Arts, the Goodness
Tags: Michael Jackson, michael jackson tribute, Captain EO, Walt Disney World, the 80s, Francis Ford Coppola

Chicago Public Schools Walk Out to Stop Budget Cuts

• April 7, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Education, Events
Tags: April 8th 2010, CPS, CPS Budget Cuts, CPS Protest, CPS rally, CPS Student Walkout, CPS Walkout, Student Protest, youth walkout

Ebony in the digital age

• January 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Jive Culture, Magazines, Printed Matters, the Goodness
Tags: Ebony, Ebony Magazines, Ebony/Jet, gordon parks, Johnson Publishing, Nichelle Nichols

Eunice Johnson: Wrought a Roadshow of Dreams

• January 6, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Magazines, Printed Matters, style, the Goodness
Tags: fashion, style, Black Business, Richard Roundtree, Eunice Johnson, Ebony, Ebony Magazines, Johnson Publishing, Ebony/Jet, fashion show

Whatever it is I think I see, becomes a Tootsie Roll to me…

• October 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Film and Television, the Goodness
Tags: candy, chicago businesses, chicago candy, Chicago Cultural History, costumes, tootsie roll

Tapes Lost to Time: Chicago Stories

• September 8, 2009 • 13 Comments

Posted in Arts & Culture, Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Film and Television, Jive Culture, Local Chicago Music, Music, the Goodness
Tags: Chicago, Chicago Soul, Dick Gregory, Hyde Park Herald, jake austen, Jim Tilmon, Jive Culture, Media, Paul Serrano, PS Recording Studios, Race, Soul Train, Television

Operation Breadbasket, the seed of PUSH

• September 5, 2009 • 7 Comments

Posted in Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Jive Culture
Tags: Chicago History, Civil Rights, economic empowerment, food justice, Great Migration, inner city, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, operation breadbasket, PUSH Expo, Race, Ralph Abernathy, SCLC

And now, a word from Chicago’s own Lady Terror

• September 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Art, Arts & Culture, Commentary, Jive Culture, Staged Affairs, Theater, the Goodness
Tags: Chicago, Arts & Culture, Lady Terror, Performance Art, harold's chicken, Rothschild's Liquors, activism

Hey, White Girl! Susan Gregory’s Chicago Story

• August 27, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Chicago Cultural History, Commentary, Printed Matters, Reviews, the Goodness
Tags: Black Slang, Chicago Literature, Class, Hey White Girl, Marshall High School, New Trier High School, Race, sixties, Susan Gregory, WVON