January 23 - 29, 2023

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Chatting about the NFL's handling of Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the field January 2.

Cover Story: The Third

Aurelius Raines III, better known as "The Third," calls himself a "raptivist:" someone who combines rap with activism. Active in the Black Lives Matter movement since 2015, he is conscious of the rhythm of his poetry, but more concerned with the substance of what he says. He discusses the importance of words and issues that are important to him, such as the school-to-prison pipeline. Overall, he describes the positive rap scene in Chicago.

From the streets

Good Kids Mad City (GKMC) took 20 youths to Ghana for the Black Star Line Festival produced by Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa. They describe the experience in words and photos. The festival was intended to foster arts exchange between the United States and diasporic Africa, inspired by Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line Shipping Co. of a century ago, which created Black-owned commerce between the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa. The GKMC youths visited sites related to the slave trade and received Ghanaian names in a special ceremony.

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ON THE COVER: The Third (courtesy photos).

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS

Compiled by Dave Hamilton

Road Trip!

‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’

“The Negro Motorist Green Book,” an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor, is com ing to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, January 29 through April 23.

The exhibit offers viewers an opportunity to travel back in time through the perspective of the traveler; viewers will experience the reality of travel for African Americans in mid-20th century America and how the annual guide served as an indispensable resource for the nation’s rising African American middle class. The exhibition, through artifacts, historic footage, and firsthand accounts, expresses not only the apprehension felt by African American travelers, but also the resilience, innovation and elegance of people choosing to live a full American existence. It will bring focus to a vibrant parallel world of African American businesses, the rise of the Black leisure class in the United States, and the important role “The Green Book” played in facilitating the second wave of the Great Migration. Free with museum admission. www.ilholocaustmuseum.org

Venture to the Black Forest!

‘Hansel and Gretel’

W hen this universally cherished production debuted 20 years ago, it captivated Chicago audiences. It did the same in 2012, and this season it returns again by popular demand. This rivetingly modern, astonishingly inventive view of the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale features an eye-popping production that does full justice to Humperdinck’s glorious score. You’ll be rooting for Hansel and Gretel at every moment in their battle against the witch in the massive, industrial-strength kitchen, and you’ll be moved by the “Dream Ballet.” From the exquisite “Evening Prayer” to the uproarious “Witch’s Ride,” this ever-fresh, whimsical masterpiece is packed with musical gems that make it a wonderful introduction to opera for audiences of all ages. There are six performances in this limited run: January 25 & 27 at 7 p.m., 29 at 2 p.m., February 1 at 2 p.m., 3 at 7 p.m., and 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets start at $40 at lyricopera.org

About A Boy!

‘Albert Herring’

Chicago Opera Theater launches its milestone 50th Anniversary year with Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring” at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, 2936 N. Southport Ave. Envisioned by director Stephen Sposito as an indie film in the vein of Wes Anderson and the Cohen Brothers, audiences are invited to the town of Loxford, England where none of the young ladies live up to Lady Billows’ inscrutable moral standards to be crowned May Queen. Peculiarly, the grocer’s son, Albert Herring, fits the bill and a May King is crowned. After being thoroughly mocked by his friends for receiving the honor, Albert takes his first steps into independence by embarking on a night of debauchery. There are three performances only, January 26 at 7:30 p.m., January 28 & 29 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 - $165 with discounts available for groups, subscribers, and students, at chicagooperatheater.org

A Homerun!

‘Toni Stone’ The sensational true story of the first woman to play professional baseball knocks it out of the park as a can’t-miss theatrical event. Toni Stone is an encyclopedia of baseball stats. She’s got a great arm. And she doesn’t understand why she can’t play with the boys. Rejected by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, Toni sets out to become the first woman to play in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Challenges on and off the field—from hostile crowds to players who slide spikes-first—only steel her resolve to shatter racist and sexist barriers in the sport she’s loved since childhood. An original play inspired by the book “Curveball, The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone” by Martha Ackmann. Playing January 28 - February 26: Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays 2 & 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 & 7:30 p.m., with other select special performance times available, at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. Tickets start at $20 at goodmantheatre.org/Toni

Spin, Spin Sugar!

‘Radial Gradient’

Shattered Globe Theatre presents the world premiere of Jasmine Sharma’s introspective and empowering play “Radial Gradient,” directed by Grace Dolezal-Ng. Three women enter a research study hoping to create positive change after a hate crime at a liberal university in America. Timelines in 2017 and 2020 intertwine as participants unravel their complicated shared friendships and histories. Jasmine Sharma's new play challenges what complicity looks like – what do we do if it looks like us? “Radial Gradient” will play January 27 – March 11 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m., $45 at theaterwit.org

South Side Sci Fi!

Las Wavys

W hen a villainous group of aliens threatens the planet, four students from the South Side of Chicago band together to become Las Wavys, a quartet of crime-fighting, DJ superheroes. With the power of music, friendship, and some fancy extraterrestrial technology, Gloria and her friends must save the day before the aliens take over the city! Written by Ricardo Gamboa, directed by Coya Paz, and presented by the Theatre School at DePaul University. Playing every Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m. through February 11 at the Merle Reskin Theatre, 60 E. Balbo Ave. Tickets are $12 at theatre.depaul.edu

Dive On In!

22nd Annual Chicago Polar Bear Club Polar Plunge

Each year, the Chicago Polar Bear Club raises funds from hundreds of plungers and their families/friends to support local families challenged by difficult circumstances. Since its first fundraising Plunge in 2003, the CPBC has raised over $525,000, with 100% of proceeds going directly to local families in need. This year the nonprofit group aims to raise $35,000 to support three local families: the Garcia, Cantave, and Meeks families. Donations may be made at www.chicagobolarbearclub.com, where you can also register to take the plunge. The plunge takes place on Saturday, January 28 at noon at Oak Street Beach, 1000 N. Lake Shore Drive, followed by a free after-party at Old Town Pub, 1339 N. Wells St.

Resilience On Film!

‘National Geographic Live - Greenwood: A Century of Resilience’ The Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive, presents “National Geographic Live – Greenwood: A Century of Resilience” with Tulsa-based archaeologist Dr. Alicia Odewale. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, herself, Dr. Odewale continues to uncover stories of resilience in the hundred years since the 1921 attack on the "Black Wall Street" in the city’s historic Greenwood district. Considered one of the worst episodes of racial violence committed against Black people in American history, the Tulsa Race Massacre left a devastating toll on generations of survivors and their descendants and impacted the very footprint of the district itself. Sunday, January 29, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 or $48, and are available at auditoriumtheatre.org

Art Meets Science!

‘The Heart’s Knowledge’

For American artist Dario Robleto, artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. “The Heart’s Knowledge” concentrates on histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibit marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Now showing through July 9 at The Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Wed - Fri noon - 8 p.m., Sat & Sun noon - 5 p.m. FREE. For more information, visit blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

John: We want to discuss the unfortunate situation with 24-year-old Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills. On January 2, Damar had a heart attack following a seemingly routine tackle of Cincinnati Bengals’ wide receiver Tee Higgins. Damar stood up, took two steps, then collapsed.

Russ: The man died on the field. Wow…

John: He did. They administered CPR, and he was revived. They, then, took him to the hospital, where they had to revive him yet again. But he’s alive and doing well now.

Patrick: Sounds like a “however” is coming…

John: You’re right. The NFL handled the situation poorly. Now, there seems to be a consensus with everyone around the world that initially postponing the game was the right thing to do. I mean, the man literally died. However, the proper way to have handled the situation from beginning to end would have been for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell—ASAP—to get on the phone with both the head coaches and ask if they wanted to continue.

Donald: Most likely, both

would have agreed to postpone the game immediately.

Russ: Right.

John: At that moment, the announcer of the news would have announced that the game was being postponed so that instead of having players and coaches and fans believing the game might continue wouldn’t have had to last over an hour. This is where I believe the NFL dropped the ball.

Russ: Before adding my two cents, let me first send prayers to Hamlin’s family and friends, teammates, and the entire sports world. This hit everyone hard. So, let’s all pray for this young man who has pulled through, since our discussion, but before this issue hit the stands.

Patrick: Hit the hands.

Russ: Huh? Ohhh… you stoopid, man!

Patrick: Sending good vibes myself as well.

Russ: I’m with you, John, about the NFL dropping the ball with the whole not making a decision quickly. It was very good seeing the players hugging each other—not just with their own teammates— and, especially, once he’d been revived. At that moment, each coach should have, simply, walked his respective team to the locker room, which would have made the decision for the NFL.

Donald: Even as a huge fan, I didn’t want to watch anymore; shoot, couldn’t watch even if I wanted to…so I can only imagine how it would’ve been for the players to get back there and continue to play as if a teammate—a friend—hadn’t just died on the field.

Patrick: The underlying issue with all of this is that football is a brutal sport. It is. I mean,

I love to watch it. Shoot, can’t imagine not watching the Bears at noon on Sundays during the season for the rest of my life. However, it, to me, is like boxing, or a gaper’s delay-sorta thing: We watch it, but we kinda know we shouldn’t be so interested to actually get to see anything. "It can’t be right," is what we think. At least that’s what I think. But it don’t stop me from watching.

John: All those sports are brutal, but, like you, I’m watching. That said, the game was cancelled completely, which threw the playoffs seeding into a tizzy. But, in the total overall of this, this is so not that important. That this young man—whose health has progressively gotten better—is able to still smell the flowers and, possibly one day, bring forth new life into the world, this is where it’s at.

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'Raptivist' The Third:

by Suzanne Hanney

As 20-something rapper The Third discusses wordsmithing and youth activism in Chicago, he sounds like a very old soul – until you realize that he has been living his craft for almost two decades.

The Third, aka Aurelius Raines III, was raised in Chatham and now lives in Hyde Park. From babyhood, he tagged along with his poet father and actress mother (Aurelius II and Pamela Raines) to open mics and poetry performances of people like avery r young, Tara Betts and Geoffrey Watts, aka Dr. Groove, who is his honorary uncle.

Groove and his wife, Donna, were president and vice president, respectively, of the Christian Poets Society, which met weekly. Most of the time, The Third came with his parents. Groove recalls the hook to one of his own poems that really got the young Aurelius going: “I love my people. I love to hug my people.

“Because it has a cadence to it. We would actually embrace and hug one another,” Groove said in a telephone interview. “I had my hands across my chest at the first move. Then I would open my arms back up and a person would step into my space. I would go on to another person. I had the whole room going around loving and hugging each other. He was part of that. He would be singing the hook on his potty. He had to be about 2.”

A stronger memory for The Third, however, is being 5 years old and reciting lines from Dr. Groove’s latest performance, and ones that came earlier. “I listened intently to the way Groove and my father would tell stories and use their words to uplift, enlighten and weave through English,” he told Vocalo in November, shortly after he created a deluxe version of Colored, his fourth EP. The month before, his single “Soul Factor” (Purple), a collaboration with Eric Tre’von and Pivot Gang’s Frsh Waters,

was on Vocalo’s “In Rotation” playlist. In late March, he expects to release his first album, South Side Sonnet.

Weaving through English, he said in a Zoom interview with StreetWise, is “any way you put words together to put a picture, to make something bigger.”

Memorizing the poem – embracing its cadence – makes it come alive. “You can do poetry and it can be blasé. That’s what I used to tell people in the Christian Poets Society. I want you to learn your poem by heart. You’ve got to be able to give your poem some life. When you learn it by heart and recite it enough, it develops a voice: tones, dips and flows.” Hip-hop’s rhythm mimics the heartbeat, which is what makes it so infectious, Groove said.

The Third has performed in public since he was 13. As much as he embraces the musicality and theatrics in poetry, his primary concern is substance. He describes himself as a “raptivist,” someone who combines rap with activism, particularly as one of the first Black Lives Matter youth organizers in 2015, when he helped coordinate actions, protests and community service events all over Chicago. He enjoyed speaking “on behalf of a lot of under-represented folks that looked like me,” as he told Vocalo.

“We had just lost Trayvon Martin and were dealing with issues that had been going on for a very long time but were becoming more prevalent to our city,” he told StreetWise. “In 2015, spaces opened up for youth to be involved that had not been open for that demographic, whether it was for racial or ethnic reasons. It was the era where people wanted to contribute to open up spaces for the rising number of youth who were dying, spaces for lively minds to speak up and facilitate, to ideate with their elders.”

The Third performed in New York recently – and he made some Paris audience members understand there’s an uplifted scene here. He credits the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia, the first space devoted to high school teens at CPL, for this positivity.

Started in 2009 in more than 5,000-square feet at the central Harold Washington Library, the teen digital learning space has spread to 29 CPL locations. YOUmedia has resources for the entire hip-hop lifestyle – fabric for clothes design, sketchbooks for artists, 3D printers and vinyl cutters, even a recording studio that can be booked for free.

“Every artist I’ve ever known who stayed consistent has gone through YOUmedia, either playing video games after school or recording their first song,” The Third said. He has been a teaching artist there since 2018 and is now a board member. He has also hosted its weekly open mic, Lyricist Loft, which has launched many young hip-hop artists. “Of all the things it’s given me, it’s how I can give back.”

Another rapper nurtured at YOUmedia, for example, is Saba, who grew up in Austin and founded Pivot Gang, with his brother Joseph Chilliams, their late cousin John Walt and their high school friend MFn Melo.

In 2017, Walt was stabbed to death coming off the CTA Green Line in the Fulton Market District. In his memory, his mother, Nachelle Pugh, and Saba formed the John Walt Foundation to provide scholarships and mentoring to young people age 14-23 who want careers in the arts. The Third received one of these scholarships in 2019, which he used to continue his journalism education.

"What people need is good music that is uplifting, relatable and informative."

“A lot of times, you get a narrative of South Side Chicago by people who don’t live on the South Side –or in Chicago at all – [trying] to navigate what we do. We’ve got to tell our story to give an impression for the world to see.”

Two issues important to The Third are the school-to-prison pipeline and inadequately resourced schools that are the conduit for this pipeline. He has experience with this issue as a teacher on the South Side. Surroundings affect not only the way kids live, but often the amount of life they have, he said.

“I had a student who was going to school while also dealing with the pressure of being affiliated. There was a struggle for this 12, 13-year-old, urging him to stay in school and do well academically. He also had family members closer to his age who were gang-affiliated and no longer in school. The glorification and pressures of being involved with a gang were difficult for him. He would often come to school angry, which would throw him off his game in school. He would often be in fights. It took a while to break down what was going on with him outside of school; that type of intervention, scary as it can be, was super integral for his growth, for complete autonomy over how his life goes.”

A related issue is schools with inadequate infrastructure to engage students. “When the test results come around, the school gets deemed a ‘bad’ school and then sometimes gets shut down.”

Is the world ready for his message?

“The school-to-prison pipeline is not my main message in this album, but I don’t think it’s about what people are ready for. That is way too subjective to count on. All the time we ask people, ‘Are you ready for work tomorrow?’ and you [add] ‘Are you sure?’ That one ‘Are you sure?’ can change it to a ‘No.’ It’s about what people need. What people need is good music that is uplifting, relatable and informative.

“I talk about spending time with my friends, my tribe, people I met my first few months of high school and have been close ever since. I didn’t realize how rare that was until after I graduated from high school.”

In 2018, as a senior at Kenwood Academy, he was invited to be on The Daily Show when it filmed in Chicago and highlighted local artists. He was inter-

viewed by Dulcé Sloan, he performed a short piece, and he met Trevor Noah.

The Third’s topic for the past two years is about growth despite the worst things life can send your way.

“I’ve really been zoning in on the idea of self-development through struggle,” he told Vocalo. “The idea that a lot of my progress and improvement as a person has happened, and can continue to happen, through heavy trial and wearing down of my spirit, has been a hard concept to grasp.”

Specifically, accidental death four years ago last May 24 claimed The Third’s brother, who was just a bit older than he was. Neither of them had yet reached 20.

It is almost too painful for him to talk about with StreetWise.

“I think learning to overcome loss, the main thing it helped me realize is that it’s not necessarily something you overcome. A lot of my growth in that specific part of my life came from dealing with it early and going through very sharp learning curves. Even though I wish it had never happened, it did result in my growth. Somebody I grew up with, shared food with since I was really young. Having to deal with that loss was very integral. Being a pallbearer at that young age was unnatural. And it took a while for me to realize that it made it very difficult to deal with losses that are not [death] but people moving on in life who were kind of your foundational upbringing, because of change in lifestyle or physical distance. It was very difficult for me, but realizing how much growth there is made me grateful.”

The Third “is bringing light to hip-hop,” despite Chicago’s reputation for “trap and drill rap,” says Groove.

The local genre is defined by a focus on gun violence and clique warfare, which is the collateral damage of the drug scene. It’s the result, Groove says, of monied people here not investing in the music a decade ago, so that rappers instead turned to drug lords, who embraced it to tell their story.

Dr. Groove

“There is a small community like Trey that defied all the odds to be able to have nice beats with tricky lyrics and not have to be so profane or misogynist in his approach, which is refreshing to a lot of people. He uses a lot of metaphors.”

Repetition, for example, can be hypnotic like “getting high off these m………..g drugs,” Groove said, but The Third creates a positive “earworm” that will stay in your head all day. He will say some-

growth in that specific part of my

came from dealing with it early and going through very sharp learning curves."

thing like “Only 160 but fighting in heavyweight, down for the count but I’m getting up anyway!”

“I have a hook that goes when they ask me ‘what you rapping for?’-- ‘ooh, I want to hear that some more,’” The Third said. “‘All I am seeing is Black and Gold, all we needed was Black and Gold.’” The Black is for his people and the Gold for creating value amongst them.

“I try to find new ways to say things people haven’t thought about and to make connections,” The Third said. “One of my favorite lines in the last EP was to try to speak to the school-prison pipeline. I said,

“Gotta be an example for the youth Who live in different places

Hoopin

Can’t even slap the back board But still touch the glass at the visitation”

The young rapper disdains misogyny. He calls it a way of turning men and women against each other “to disrupt progress of that people, and also as a cover for further injustice. For the most part people in power are doing this to marginalize black people.”

Nor does he embrace what George Carlin called the “seven dirty words” among

the 250,000 Groove has noted in the English language.

“In addition to the way I was raised, I believe there is a higher level of creativity that comes from not using those words. Even from artists I work with, they’ll say ‘that song of mine without the curse word took more out of me, but I liked the results.’”

Besides relationships, there is energy and inspiration in the Chicago hip-hop scene, he says. “I think that in any form of progress or revolution, there are the elders who provide wisdom and history, the youth who take these ideas and execute them.”

There is also enough writing and rapping diversity between South Side and West Side, so that “when they collaborate, it’s mind-blowing.”

But most of all, there’s a willingness to “break the mold,” inspired by the independent pioneer, Chance the Rapper.

“If ‘this is how we’ve been told’ to do something, let’s find a way to do it where it doesn’t cost us our freedom, our intellectual property, or our individuality.”

“I think learning to overcome loss, the main thing it helped me realize is that it’s not necessarily something you overcome. A lot of my

life

Left: Dr. Groove (Facebook).

Center: The Third (courtesy photo). Right: Students work on their digital art skills at the YOUMedia Lab at Harold Washington Library (Chicago Public Library photo).

GoodKids MadCity Travels to Accra, Ghana Chance the Rapper's & Vic Mensa's Black

Teens from GoodKids MadCity, a prominent Chicago anti-violence group, returned January 10 from Ghana, where they attended Chance the Rapper's and Vic Mensa’s Black Star Line Festival. They were among the 50,000 attendees at the festival, founded in the spirit of diasporic Pan-Africanism, reinforcing the links between the global Black community and artists from Africa.

The weeklong festival included panel discussions with artists and intellectuals from around the world, fine art exhibitions and nightlife events. It concluded with a large-scale, finale concert featuring Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle, T-Pain, Jeremih, M.anifest, and more, at Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, on January 6.

While in Ghana, the 20 teens toured historical sites, including the home of W.E.B DuBois, and heard stories about African Freedom Fighters. They also retraced the steps of Africans forced into baths and then sent to Elmina Castle, which served as a depot for slavery. The teens also participated in the Kakum Hike, traversing 33 meters above sea level, and took part in a Ghanaian naming ceremony. Each teen received names based on their birthday and personality.

“Ghana was a life-changing experience for me,” said Jeremiah Trask, 16, of Bloom Township High School. “I heard about what our ancestors went through during slavery, but to actually see it made me feel hurt because no one should have had to be beaten and kept tied up in a dungeon and forced to work or do things that they did not want to do. What I enjoyed most about Ghana was receiving my Ghanaian name, which is Yaw Ababio.”

“Coming to Ghana has been an amazing experience for me,” said Tapha Sylla, 16, of Little Black Pearl. “Coming from Chicago, it was a shock to see the difference between my city and Accra, since this was my first time out of the country. The people of Accra have been very welcoming to everyone I came with and have let us know that we are home. I loved hearing about the culture and history while I got to tour the city. In addition to its beautiful culture, people, and history, the natural beauty of the country was breathtaking. All around, it was eye-opening, and I had a great time.”

“Visiting Ghana was very impactful and educational,” said Arseny Acosta, 17 of DeVry University Advantage Academy. “I feel like everybody shouldn’t have to come here to learn most of the stuff I learned, but at the same time, I am grateful I was able to experience this to pass it on to others.”

“My experience in Ghana was overall transformative,” said Damayanti Wallace, co-founder of GKMC. “It reinforces the community responses that we are working toward in Chicago. When we were able to connect with other people from home in Ghana, it made the experience that much more impactful due to the fight for justice in both places.”

The Black Star Line Festival was a “reunification of bonds broken by the transatlantic slave trade,” Chance and Mensa wrote in a letter on the festival website.

Its namesake was Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line Shipping Company of a century ago, a Black-founded and operated business that sought to bring goods and people together between the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa; the Festival aimed to accomplish that goal by art and expression.

-compiled by Suzanne Hanney, from email and online sources

Ghana for Black Star Line Festival

From Top Left: St. George's Castle in Elmina is a UNESCO Heritage Site. Built as a trading post by the Portugese in 1482, it was captured by the Dutch in 1637 and expanded when slaves replaced gold as the major object of commerce, according to the Ghana tourism website. The British imprisoned the Ashanti King Prempeh I there in the late 19th century. The stark beauty of the whitewashed castle contrasts with the dark, iron "Door of No Return" through which Africans passed on their way to slavery.

Several young Ghanains lead Tapha Sylla through the Accra suburb of Iture-Elmina.

Jeremiah Trask meets a little girl in the seaside Accra suburb of Iture-Elmina, where the students had their Ghana naming ceremony.

Jeremiah Trask, 16, a member of Good Kids Mad City, with Chicago rapper Vic Mensa, who organized the Black Star Festival with Chance the Rapper.

Damayanti Wallace, co-founder of Good Kids Mad City, at the Black Star Festival with Chicago's Chance the Rapper, who organized the event with Vic Mensa. The GKMC Twitter feed notes that they appreciate the two rappers "for treating us like family."

All photos by Camiella Williams.

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