Tag: #BlackJoy
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A Divine Disruption: How a Brother’s Music is Healing a City’s Trauma
A Divine Disruption: How a Brother’s Music is Healing a City’s TraumaBy Christopher Tru Hood Zeke Locke – https://livefreeillinois.org/ On the eve of Independence Day, inside the historic sanctuary of APC Morgan Park on Chicago’s South Side, the room felt like a pressure valve opening. The SOVA Gospel Mass Choir—an international ensemble from Geneva—rose in a…
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Celebrating Black Legacy: The Enduring Significance of the Bud Billiken Parade
Celebrating Black Legacy: The Enduring Significance of the Bud Billiken Parade By Christopher Hood CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 2025) For nearly a century, Chicago’s South Side has claimed the second Saturday in August as its own holiday. The Bud Billiken Parade, now in its 96th year, marched again this weekend down King Drive with all the…
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Healing Voices Uplifts South Side with Global Sound and Local Heart
Healing Voices: A Sound of Restoration Echoes in Morgan Park By Christopher Tru Hood On the South Side of Chicago, where trauma and triumph often collide, something extraordinary broke through the noise — a sound not of protest, but of healing. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q3milfzh8dghttps://youtu.be/npqkXj9stho On the evening of July 3, 2025, inside the historic walls of APC…