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Issue 1: Chicago

July 2025

This issue follows artists, writers, and creative storytellers from Chicago and dives into core themes of what life for contemporary Chicago youth truly looks and feels like. This…

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This issue follows artists, writers, and creative storytellers from Chicago and dives into core themes of what life for contemporary Chicago youth truly looks and feels like. This is simply an example blurb about the Issue that’s being used here for illustrative purposes.

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"Bless"

by Unknown Author

by E'mon Lauren   Chicago, a crafty caucus, we cocooned in. a kid’s folded cot and cubby. we the poster childs. the classes, the pastels and pastillage. we be born here. we burn the bridges, the borders. the blues,...

We Speak Our City Back: A Series on Gentrification

by Unknown Author

by Alycia Kamil We Speak Our City Back On Language, Gentrification, and Black Presence in Chicago There are stories that arrive already smoothed out. Made digestible for funders, developers,...

Black Things Today: Proof of Concept

by Unknown Author

By Johnae Strong A film by Johnaé Strong Some works capture the beauty of Black life.Others hold its tension, its memory, its muscle.This one does all of that—and then breathes...