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WORD: Across Generations

WORD: Across Generations Sunday, January 17 2:00pm – 3:30pm Victory Gardens Biograph Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago Join The Public Square and Chicago Public Radio for WORD: Across Generations with poets Carloyn Rodgers, John Murillo, and Aja Monet. •Carolyn Rodgers (see poem below) emerged from the Black Arts Movement in Chicago in the 1960s…

January 4, 2010

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Art, Arts & Culture, Events, Performance, Spoken Word, Staged Affairs

Aja Monet, BAM, Black Arts Movement, carolyn rodgers, Chicago Public Radio, John Murillo, poetry, spoken word, WBEZ
Ronald Fair: Griot of Chicago Tales

1932— Ronald Fair is perhaps best known as a teller of crisp, satirical, and unsentimental Chicago Tales: inner city stories of struggle, morality, and overcoming (not unlike his own Chicago story). Born in Chicago on October 27, 1932, Fair attended public school. He was inspired as a young man by fellow Chicagoan Richard Wright to begin writing.…

September 10, 2009

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Arts & Culture, Books, Chicago Cultural History, Cult Movie of the Week, Film and Television, Jive Culture, Printed Matters

BAM, Black Arts Movement, Black Literature, Blaxploitation, books, Chicago Black Literature, Chicago Literature, Cornbread Earl and Me, film, Hog Butcher, Many Thousand Gone, Printed Matters, Ronald Fair, We Can’t Breathe