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Common Builds Music Studio Inside Chicago Prison for Inmates to Tap Into Creativity

Rapper and actor Common has created a space in a Chicago prison that allows inmates to get away from the prison cell and into a music studio.
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" Multi-talented rapper and actor Common has created a new space in a local Chicago prison that allows inmates to get away from the prison cell and into a music studio.

The Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy award-winning Chicago native used his resources and star power to create a built-in music studio in the Stateville Correctional Facility. Inmates there now get a rare opportunity to learn about music production and put their freestyle skills to use. "
 
What comes to mind when you think of the typical, traditional golf player?

If you answered “old white man,” Tiffany Fitzgerald wants to change that. She’s the founder of Black Girls Golf, a nearly 5,000-member organization that exposes young girls and professional women of color to the sport, often seen as a throwback to the “Mad Men” era of corporate wheeling and dealing in industries such as law, finance and advertising.

She founded the group in 2013, and the members, ranging from schoolteachers to surgeons, will convene for an executive retreat in Texas next month, billed as the first of its kind event — the largest gathering of women of color on the course.
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Black Girls Golf Is Teeing Off Against the Patriarchy

Atlanta entrepreneur Tiffany Fitzgerald is making the golf course a little more inclusive.
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Black Mothers Launch Microschools to End School-Prison Pipeline

In the Arizona desert, a new school model has Black parents driving across city lines to drop their children off each morning. Frustrated with what they say is their public schools’ failure to provide quality education and nurturing environments for Black children and fearing the persistent...
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Not to be "that guy", but AZ schools are consistently at the bottom of the list in the nation. Can't be surprised that your kids are getting a substandard education in a state known for substandard education.

That said, kudos to these women for loving our kids enough to try to better them.
 
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Black Owned Grocery Store Receives $2.5 Million Grant

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Forty Acres Fresh Market is a startup grocer founded in 2018 by Liz Abunaw in response to the lack of fresh food options on Chicago’s West Side.


For Forty Acres Fresh Market, the grant will fund part of the construction costs, including plumbing, mechanical and electrical work for things like refrigerators and freezers. They expect to apply for construction permits in the coming months. Construction will begin once the city approves the permits, a process that could take three to five months.


Bringing a grocery store to the area will improve more than just food access, Abunaw said: A grocery store is part of a neighborhood’s social infrastructure that builds cohesion in a community and benefits all businesses along the corridor. The increased foot traffic and local dollars being circulated within the Austin community can “slowly start to shift the perception that there’s nothing on Chicago” Avenue, she said.






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Black Owned Grocery Store Receives $2.5 Million Grant

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Forty Acres Fresh Market is a startup grocer founded in 2018 by Liz Abunaw in response to the lack of fresh food options on Chicago’s West Side.


For Forty Acres Fresh Market, the grant will fund part of the construction costs, including plumbing, mechanical and electrical work for things like refrigerators and freezers. They expect to apply for construction permits in the coming months. Construction will begin once the city approves the permits, a process that could take three to five months.


Bringing a grocery store to the area will improve more than just food access, Abunaw said: A grocery store is part of a neighborhood’s social infrastructure that builds cohesion in a community and benefits all businesses along the corridor. The increased foot traffic and local dollars being circulated within the Austin community can “slowly start to shift the perception that there’s nothing on Chicago” Avenue, she said.






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This right here... this is beautiful!!!
 
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Instagram announced Monday that it will introduce a special tag for professional accounts and influencers that ensures they receive credit for their content, an attempt to address complaints that Black users are not credited for starting trends or are shut out from profiting from them.

The tag is available to business and creator accounts, and comes on the heels of nationwide discussions and content strikes by Black content creators who pushed out viral posts saying they do not receive credit for their work.
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"We want to ensure that as Black creators’ content is being distributed as it already is, they are getting the proper attribution so that they have the opportunity to get all of those growth and monetization and career-starting opportunities like their contemporaries are," said Boyd, a Spelman College graduate. “It’s really critical, as we’re moving towards this new age where creators are so important and creators are really able to use their craft to support themselves in their lives, that Black creators are getting the same opportunity, as they’re already creating the content.”

Adjei and Boyd joined Meta in August 2020 before landing on the idea the following February. They worked on it with colleague Alexandra Zaoui, building it out together and pitching it across different teams at Instagram’s parent company, Meta, until eventually getting their own team, which prepared the feature to launch this week under the pair’s leadership.

Adjei, a Stanford University graduate, said the need for a formal credit was apparent, and it just took the right set of eyes at Meta to see it.
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