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"A girl of the South Side” Veteran Journalist. Author Old School Adventures From Englewood-South Side of Chicago.Contributor Rust Belt Chicago editor91210 @yahoo

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Englewood Elaine
4 months
My only bro Randy died Jan 10. He was 70 & blessed w/a new heart more than 20 yrs ago. He was a quiet man except when playing #leadguitar Miss him, Life aint normal Thx St Joseph Village/ @RushMedical Dr Beck @GoodInEnglewood #family #roots @TheChicagoCru
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@illaim @VtheEsquire Right I thought the lady would come back cussing out the guy. 🤷🏿‍♀️
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@cxrodge The film follows unapologetic & free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps her 6-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, & stability, in a rapidly changing NYC
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@Tyrannorabbit @alifuckingburns Right. They worked too hard to take that flight. He’ll be sitting out strapped to the wing. 😡
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@ATLBlackStar You guys could at least search around and find a news item to go with this.
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@AfricanArchives And here is artist Bisa Butler’s rendition. I have the black and white in my home.
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4 years
@gaffneyfilm @YeshaCallahan @feliciapride He was betwixt between and besides himself. 😂😂😂
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@brwngirlstudies @SPOTNEWSonIG @ReiRyukazaki @JaieNoel Looks like it. The driver. “I’m gone.” 😂😂
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@agostinhozinga @BastienFachan I like how she credited her parents with having steered her away from situations where she would have accumulated debt. Good for her. Many 19-year-old’s living at home, and not enrolled in college & just working may not have debt, either.
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@fkabudu @AsPurple_is Oprah doesn’t want anybody saying that she said “such and so.” She wants clarification on the spot.
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@larajeankavi @JayNedaj Is she alright. Are the children alright. 😂😂 Is the food burning on the stove. So many questions.
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@jmhysong @_SJPeace_ The world is more evil.
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@YeshaCallahan He’s got his hands on his hips and everything.
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@SavageCompanion @alamanecer Or “there go yo Gurl,” pointing at a woman’s ex-friend. 😂😂
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10 months
@AfricanArchives “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." Here’s a photo from Cafe De Flore, one of Baldwin’s writing spots. It was a complete joy to visit in 2017. #JamesBaldwin
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@cordellsimmons @Momo2clef The People’s Law. 😂😂
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@BBBrrrandonn Deborah Ali-Williams, President and Funeral Director in charge of All Peoples’ Funeral home.
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@MunTheShinobi Speechless‼️ @MuhammadAli "I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick." —Muhammad Ali, 1974.
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@resilientree_ @neauxna And they “made” groceries—without benefit of a garden or farm.
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@MissCamille92 I need to hear Jarrett explain the circumstances as only he can. 😍😍
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1 year
@FLitz @DailyLoud Was that her boyfriend? If so, he’s respectfully including him in the convo. 😍😍
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5 years
@xobethanid @MeatpieN @justbrad Never saw that woman before.
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@Yamiche @MsNancyNCali And the judge just mentioned her name. Nelson didn’t. The judge suggested he use that reason for his appeal. 🙄
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5 years
@JMasoots @soledadobrien Because they think that they own the world. 😡
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8 years
#ObamaAndKids "I'll have you back for a visit in a few years," says the Kid President."
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1 year
@zellieimani @DrFrankRoberts The brawl and their issues have been noted in books. I visited Paris and was at the Cafe De Flore, right by the place where they duked it out. 😯
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@fijifly @Tao_Pasch I won’t bet on the duration, but years from now they will regret this foolishness. 🤷🏾‍♀️
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2 years
@belleinprogress @keyon Eddie has been quoted as saying he is comfortable sitting in his backyard doing nothing. I guess this is the “nothing” he was talking about.
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@v_ness_uh @notcapnamerica Or her locs tightened. Can the Google chick handle that. And what if my name is Boeneshia?
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5 years
@Most_Wanted5563 @IlovebeinBlack Right. He was trying NOT to say the obvious. 😂
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@DrFrankRoberts Thanks for this. Not for anything but 2 show another author’s issue with Wright—Margaret Walker. Her later-in-life, headline-grabbing literary & legal beefs with 2 of the leading Black male writers of her day, Wright & Alex Haley are discussed in new book.
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@jshwilliams4 @theferocity Right. What about preppy kids who fly first class?
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5 years
@GaryParrishCBS I suppose the team can get fast food anywhere.
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5 years
@JenniferRoseNYC @Down2MarsGirl @NotThatRoz Yep. I didn’t buy chicken sandwiches IN FOREVER and instead went to Paris to eat coq au vin—still chicken—but do not a chicken sandwich. NOT. 😉
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4 years
@MelaninMagical @VtheEsquire Here. I’ll help with that.
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@JoshZerkle @chrissyteigen Isn’t that what @Tesla is doing. 🤷🏿‍♀️
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5 years
@KarlitoP @ineedja_kadeeja Believe me. She’s not wasting any of that concoction.
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@anesuishec That girl has somebody’s hips on her.
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@CashJ @rodimusprime @JoyTaylorTalks I’ll hide my own self. 😉
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5 years
@danblackroyd I know what you mean. I retired early at 62, and some days I do NOTHING. After 46 years of doing SOMETHING. I think that’s a fair enough trade.
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10 years
MT @superliberryian : Your book is displayed prominently in Media Center :) Great nonfiction for students. Good job. http://t.co/Fp1oN0OOtK
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@mefeater That’s @Lupita_Nyongo younger sister. Well she resembles her well. Beautiful. Love that pantsuit
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@Waldens_Block And one in the trunk. 😂😂
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2 years
@tmg__alex Dreadful. This is my alma mater class of ‘73. The principal is living in another world—and the teachers as well—that nothing was done about this. Someone mentioned red flags. This is certainly one of those cases, IMO. How far are students allowed to go with free expression?
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@Northstartv1 “The Madison was created and popularized by African-American teens in the late 1950s. Unfortunately - and this is a theme that repeats throughout American social dance history - there are virtually no recordings of contemporary African-American dancing the steps.”
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@imaqt2nv @PIMPDADDEEX Nancy is an “old school” name. I had a relative named Nancy. 🤷🏿‍♀️. And I know someone named Sally and had a best friend years ago named Josie.
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@YeshaCallahan @LennyKravitz Key. The non Black publicist will just go to the next media outlet, which is most likely not a Black outlet. That same PR person won’t ever understand the need to secure Black media ink.
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@tjedge20 @MsFlowersTweets Dr King jokes about flying in a clip from @peacockTV “The Sit In Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show.”
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5 years
@PadmaLakshmi @AndyRichter This flight would have been just too much for me.
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@KimWrites4U They may as well take the baby home from the hospital to live with them. 😂😂
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5 years
@soledadobrien What is wrong with people. She says she knows everybody. Then says that she doubts that his aunt lives there. 😡
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@c2h2a2d @ATM25 @notcapnamerica I agree. As much as I never watched Seinfeld, he gets a big YAY‼️ from me. He says he hasn’t found the humor in using the word, nor does he seek it. 👏🏾👏🏾
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@netflix “A pimp’s blood sugar is falling fast.” 😂😂😂
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4 years
@StacyZeal @crissles Right you never know what’s going to happen next. But at least he can’t brag about winning this one. It will be on his obit. IMPEACHED❗️❗️
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@mrboro615 @PsalmOne Yep. Hold that noise until March. 😂😂😂
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4 years
So a strong police presence at the base of Old Town at North Avenue and Wells. But at 54th & Wentworth folks walking out of the furniture store strapping a box spring & mattress on top of a car Where were the police to protect that property ⁉️ #chicagoprotests #GeorgeFloydProtests
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@cornsoup27 @Muna_Mire I have had this dress since the early 90’s—30 years. Bagatelle. I lost a significant amount of weight when I was sick. I was able to wear it back in September. I bought it for my graduation from @ChiCityColleges in 1992.
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@WeekndChart @theweeknd I know it’s Hollywood but how do these people get together? Is there a registry, an app, where the actors and actors, or actors and artists go—and say, “hey I’m single, let’s go out?” I’m not knocking this—just wondering.
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@ariwercz @Thatgirl_Stacey @_blackbeauTEE Often folks just want a bit of companionship.
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@jessinhtx “Biography gives leading 20th-century Black writer her due” As it emerged later, “Haley did, in fact, use Walker’s book and others, and she went ballistic when she recognized it, and she later sued and lost.”
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@CashJ @SportsCenter He’s not a businessman. He’s a “business” man. 🤷🏿‍♀️
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@gloworm106 @kylebuchanan And Pieces of a Woman actress. She acted. Fran walked around her van a lot. But the film did have a good message.
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@Nuga_N_ @_ilyally @AshTheDonLeon Is this the same guy in this GIF?
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@eddluxe Lord that baby needs a bit more support.
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5 years
@BlackNoChaser If she was that nervous, she wouldn’t be standing so close to him.
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@Thatgirl_Stacey Oh wow. That’s “the village.” 👏🏾
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3 years
@_mothers__ The late Thomas Jefferson Byrd. I have met and interviewed others for film reviews. However, I met Byrd outside of @Cheesecake and he let me interrupt his quiet time. I believe he was in Chicago filming. We even texted from time to time about politics and culture in Chicago.
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@robl2044 @AchmatX @stufromoz Oh no, believe me, IT IS.
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@DiggsWayne Here’s her performance in an old video.
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@Obeyy_Monaee It’s the “I work everyday.” That’s the Black moms mantra—no matter what. 😂😂
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@notcapnamerica Journalist and the Underground Railroad 🤔
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@itswynterm @janellejcomedy @flyanaboss The real videographer showed how it’s done. He’s running in front of them with the camera.
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@SoulHaumYoga It’s when she motioned for the kids to gather around and thank grandma. They are not thinking about grandma.
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5 years
@Complex The baby might fall flat on his or her face—but the baby will go down dapping. 😂
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10 months
@theninaparker I perfected pound cake beginning with the pandemic.
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4 years
@socialchanger @DrCameronWebb Oh no a stethoscope is really needed to get through layers of cheese in Mac and cheese. 🤷🏾‍♀️. Sorry @DrCameronWebb I trust your day got better—once you left her room.
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@KevOnStage @ReignOfApril I interviewed him once by phone not too long ago. A very pleasant man. He genuinely seemed concerned when I said that I had just survived a very bad health scare. Just nice all the way around.
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@PattenMel1 @coarmena He’s an unemployed, two-timing, day dreaming scoundrel. 😂😂😂
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@darkrose81 @LuckyovLegends @notcapnamerica Right. I don’t get this. Nobody could have pulled her backwards by her hair and throw her to the ground?
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@taoleighgoffe #JamesBaldwin Plus this priceless @TIME magazine from 1963.
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@elelcoolche @Phil_Lewis_ Agreed. And the article mentions the word “woke.” That’s silent/loud word for Black. It’s despicable. I’m sure the cop was compensated for his appearance, and the club and restaurant owner were unbothered by the entire event. I wonder how many folks just got up and left?
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@TenickaBoyd @propublica Probably explains why every other time, I have been patted down, and asked to take locs down if they are pinned up. When a Black female @TSA officer was on guard, she just waved me through. She realizes the scanner are biased.
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@LAURA_N_ROD @shazam_bangles I trust he has the confidence of someone to guide him and protect him with future plans. A proud gentlemen. I can’t understand what he’s saying. But he’s choking up about the generosity of others.
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@CurtessaJacques @kylegriffin1 Or at the golf course. More likely where they will catch him.
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@OochieLally Is that Divine Joy Randolph
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2 years
@letitia_amore @shadowandact And Sam’s wife is the director. 😍😍
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3 years
@Zetetes_MS @DeeshaPhilyaw @surlybassey I visited both places in 2017. I was super geeked to sit at a Paris cafe where Baldwin once hung out. 😍😍
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@WGNNews Gotta pay for them wigs and nails. 😡
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@nytimes DALLAS — A former Dallas police officer who shot her unarmed black neighbor in his own apartment was found guilty of murder.” The headline refers to “white.” Now I’m as woke as nxt person but do we need 2 say Black & white. It was IMO murder—no matter the victim or accused race.
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@Suntimes No blood test for alcohol content
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4 years
@rosesinlaurel @AnthonyReports @FCN2go Do the pimples and acne repeat as well. 😂
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@dFlowers_ @jenandjuice___ @cyrusville I agree. I think I’ll just stick to this one for everything
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