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Clarence Page: What's so wrong about 'respectability?' Let's start with hair


Clarence Page: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair
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Four-year-old Gus Jett Hawkins plays with mother, Ida Nelson, in Chicago on May 21, 2021.
Let’s talk about hair.
Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical “Hair” theme song: “Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh …!”
Stop the music. I mean real hair!
And respectability. Let’s talk about that too.
The “politics of respectability” have taken a real beating lately, even from people who have benefited from practicing it.
All of these themes came to mind in a bill proposed by freshman state Sen. Mike Simmons a North Side Democrat appointed to the seat earlier this year who, like my own millennial son, has a robust headful of dreadlocks. ....

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Endangered buildings 2021: Preservation Chicago names Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, six others


The historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration, made Preservation Chicago’s list of the city’s “7 Most Endangered Buildings” on Thursday. Supporters are fighting to save the home that’s poised to be torn down.
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The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, a historic settlement house in Bronzeville established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s to aid African American women coming from the South during the Great Migration, was named one of Chicago’s most endangered buildings Wednesday by Preservation Chicago. ....

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