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Arionne (Are-REE-ahn) Nettles

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Real housewife of journalism: “I might teach journalism but I’M ALWAYS the feature” | Author of WE ARE THE CULTURE | FAMU Prof+Alum | Chicagoan til Chicago ends

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

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I’m no political analyst but I hope someone is exploring the idea that it’s not just politicians who can be bad and want bad things - plenty of of voters, despite what they may say they care about, are simply happy to suffer if it means the people they want hurt are being hurt a little worse

July 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Joanne Merriam

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5/15 @arionne.bsky.social @chireviewpress.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social (Alt-text for details.) #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts

Book cover for We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books), with a line drawing of a black person's silhouette over a Chicago skyline. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-culture-products-9781641608305.php?page_id=21

Book cover for Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus (House of Anansi), depicting a black silhouette of anti-nuke protesters against a turquoise background. A bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today. https://houseofanansi.com/products/dangerous-memory

Book cover for Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov and Matthew Semansky (University of Toronto Press ), with rows of map element icons like a ferry, a city hall, a bridge, a shop labeled flowers, a shop labeled furniture, a bed & breakfast, a pharmacy, and so on, arranged to look like a city skyline. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442612099 In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small-scale entrepreneurs to pool their resources with like-minded businesses, becoming sources of urban rejuvenation, magnets for human talent, and incubators for local innovation in cities around the globe. Small Business and the City also analyses the policies necessary to support this urban vitality, describing how cities can encourage and support locally owned independent businesses. An inspiring account of the dynamism of urban life, Small Business and the City introduces a new “main street agenda” for the twenty-first century city.

Book cover for Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll by Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva, trans. Jonathan D. Amith (Deep Vellum), showing a rabbit on land staring at a crocodile in a lake surrounded by farmed land on which two figures are walking with a cat. Over everything is a large sun with a smiling face. The classic tale of the trickster Brer Rabbit in a one-of-a-kind trilingual edition (Nahuatl, Spanish, and English). https://store.deepvellum.org/products/uncle-rabbit-and-the-wax-doll

March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Daniella

@daniellamazzio.bsky.social

In fact, almost immediately after publishing, Cinema Chatham suddenly closed on the far south side. I discussed the loss of another theater on @wbez.org alongside @arionne.bsky.social.

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