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Issue 1: Chicago
July 2025This 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.
Issue 1: Chicago
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About Issue 1: Chicago
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.
Table of Contents
1.
"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...
2.
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....
3.
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...
4.
A Love Letter to Chicago's Black Womxn
by Unknown Author
By Sarah Oberholtzer This love letter demands a softness and beauty for the Black womxn of Chicago. After an inhumane Chicago Police Department raid...
5.
Memory, an Animated Short
by Unknown Author
By Sarah Oberholtzer "Memory," a rotoscope animation short, asks how small moments in our lives have lasting impacts that shape our sense of self and...
6.
Alive, A Film Made During the Interim of Counting Votes
by Unknown Author
by Sarah Oberholtzer A visual poem of resiliency and reminders, "Alive" reminds audiences of the grace and beauty inherent in life despite the...
7.
We were Transformed, but was the World? Reflecting on a Decade of Black-led Movement
by Unknown Author
by Asha Ransby-Sporn A full decade ago this summer, I arrived at a retreat center in the Chicago suburbs with about a hundred other...
8.
Afrofuturist Animations
by Unknown Author
by Bryson Scott Check out the amazing and imaginative art work of Bryson Scott. Ancestral Backturn We encounter a figure turned away from us—unbothered, unwavering....
9.
"Every Other Day Occurrence"
by Unknown Author
by Desmond King As I lay on the ground, I look at this delicate rose placed by a lamp post. My foggy, ragged breath...
10.
Organizers In Conversation
by Unknown Author
By Dr. Eve L. Ewing & Damon Young Black Life Everywhere: Chicago, launches with our conversation series spotlighting local cultural and political organizers. This...
11.
Three Ways to Love Black
by Unknown Author
by Benji Hart 1. I’m a teenager, attending the annual Kwanzaa celebration at Amherst College, the small private school where my dad...
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