Chicago Sun-Times: All posts by Chloe Herring2019-08-12T06:00:00-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/chloe-herring/rss2019-08-12T06:00:00-05:002019-08-11T20:02:24-05:00Oprah Winfrey offers a home to Tarell Alvin McCraney’s teen alter ego in ‘David Makes Man’
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>David (Akili McDowell, left) comes to trust a teacher, Dr. Woods-Trap (Phylicia Rashad), in “David Makes Man.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>OWN/Warner Bros.</p></div></div>
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<p>Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney had a rough childhood — even if he didn’t know it. </p><p>“Get up, struggle every day, run through what feels like a war zone, get on the bus, sweat after packing lunches for two other kids that are not mine, struggling in school everyday, nodding off because I’m tired, then coming home battling through all that again — I thought that was the way of life,” he said at a recent screening of the pilot episode for his new television series, “David Makes Man,” at the DuSable Museum.</p><p>The show, which is heavily influenced by experiences and characters from McCraney’s early life, introduces audiences to the struggles — both in his head and out — of 14-year-old David, played by Akili McDowell. </p><p>David lives in a South Florida public housing project and has dreams of attending a prestigious high school. To survive, he must navigate being an older sibling with a sometimes absent parent while deciding whether to fend off offers from drug dealers to join street life. To thrive, David must perform well in school with the added pressure of being the only black boy in predominantly white classrooms.</p><p>It’s a deeply personal story for McCraney, a DePaul University graduate who has encountered great success before mostly white audiences and in mostly white institutions. McCraney’s accolades include award-winning work at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, on Broadway and even at the Academy Awards, which was criticized in 2016 for its lack of diversity (most notably in the trending Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite).</p><p>Of course, it was “Moonlight,” with its black cast and director and McCraney as screenwriter, that won three Oscars the next year. But McCraney revealed that even for “Moonlight,” concessions were made so that the vibrancy of South Florida wasn’t misread by audiences who couldn’t associate beauty with poverty.</p><p>And that’s how much of his 20-year career in theater and the arts has been, McCraney said — lacking in opportunities to share stories exactly as he intended.</p><p>With “David Makes Man,” McCraney sought out a network with a built-in audience that would recognize themselves and their communities in his work. He got his chance with one-time Chicago television host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who loved the pitch for “David Makes Man” so much she invited him to her OWN channel on the spot.</p><p>“When OWN said ‘yes’ it meant something different to me,” McCraney said. “Because this is an intimate conversation, I feel like I don’t want anyone thinking this is representative of all black people. It’s like, ‘No, there are 70 other stories on this network. David’s story is just David’s story.’ I didn’t want it to be only one in a room.”</p><p>The premiere of “David Makes Man” is at 9 p.m. Wednesday. It will join a lineup of other OWN shows with black leads and casts including “Queen Sugar,” “Greenleaf” and “The Haves and the Have Nots.”</p><p>Joining Winfrey’s network was also special for actress Alana Arenas, who plays David’s mother Gloria in “David Makes Man” and, like McCraney, is a graduate from DePaul and a Steppenwolf ensemble member. She and McCraney also attended the same arts school in Miami, Florida.</p><p>“A lot of my career I didn’t always feel like it was OK to be unapologetically myself,” Arenas said. “Going to ‘David Makes Man’ [is] literally the first time I’ve ever gone to work and felt celebrated every space I went. I never felt like I had to shrink and be less obvious.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<img class="Image" alt="Alana Arenas and Tarell Alvin McCraney in the audience for a screening of “David Makes Man” at the DuSable Museum on July 15, 2019." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/cf3f02f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2392x1342+0+128/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fd6_7ZfUzgJg2qDmTpdBEY2fGnFQ%3D%2F0x0%3A2392x1598%2F2392x1598%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281196x799%3A1197x800%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F18338277%2FCapture2.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d29b6ee/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2392x1342+0+128/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fd6_7ZfUzgJg2qDmTpdBEY2fGnFQ%3D%2F0x0%3A2392x1598%2F2392x1598%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281196x799%3A1197x800%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F18338277%2FCapture2.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Alana Arenas and Tarell Alvin McCraney in the audience for a screening of “David Makes Man” at the DuSable Museum on July 15, 2019.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Parrish Lewis</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Even though McCraney spoke of a new freedom in creating “David Makes Man,” that’s not to say shooting the series was easy. Because so much of the work is informed by his own experiences, McCraney said “David Makes Man” forced him to relive some of his personal traumas.</p><p>In a particularly poignant moment on set with McDowell, McCraney and the teen actor began to cry. McDowell had asked a question about his character, who is coping with the loss of a dear friend. That character was based on a real-life drug dealer who stood in as a father figure to a young McCraney, teaching him to ride a bike, how to swim and how to grow up.</p><p>“And I said to Akili, ‘Sometimes I hear him or at least feel what he gave me and even to this day I check my own manhood against him.’</p><p>“And Akili shared a story that was intimate to him and I started crying because I didn’t want him going through his life chasing the ghost of a person who wasn’t there. I didn’t want that for him and I didn’t want it for me, but there we were these two people and we’re both looking down the barrel of this incredible piece that we’re doing trying to figure out how to talk about it,” McCraney said.</p><p>“David Makes Man” incorporates many topics including poverty, death, mental health, child abuse, LGBTQ representation, friendship and the black community’s relationship with police. But while McCraney said he couldn’t craft the story without those elements, his main objective was to explore what he calls “the interiority of a young black man.”</p><p>McCraney said there have been a notable number of works dedicated to unpacking the lives of white teenagers in the United States. John Hughes famously dedicated nearly a decade of his career creating a series of films inspired by his days as a high school student in Chicago.</p><p>But there’s a void for those stories in the black community — one he hopes to fill with “David Makes Man,” McCraney said.</p><p>“ ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Sixteen Candles’ — those films were chronicling that time of their lives. And we need those,” McCraney said. “We need those moments of showing our interiority.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<img class="Image" alt="Pictured: (L to R) Nathaniel Logan McIntyre (plays “Seren”) and Akili McDowell (plays “David”) in David Makes Man." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5cfc6aa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2677x1502+0+138/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2ForoLEz5yy0A2zhcmjZc3Inz39u0%3D%2F0x0%3A2677x1779%2F2677x1779%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281339x890%3A1340x891%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F18338570%2FCapture4.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a3324ff/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2677x1502+0+138/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2ForoLEz5yy0A2zhcmjZc3Inz39u0%3D%2F0x0%3A2677x1779%2F2677x1779%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281339x890%3A1340x891%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F18338570%2FCapture4.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Nathaniel Logan McIntyre (left) plays Seren with Akili McDowell as David in “David Makes Man.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>OWN/Warner Bros.</p></div></div>
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<p>SAN DIEGO — The administration of President Donald Trump announced Monday that it will vastly expand the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them to first appear before judges, its second major policy shift on immigration in eight days.</p><p>Starting Tuesday, fast-track deportations can apply to anyone in the country illegally for less than two years. Previously, those deportations were largely limited to people arrested almost immediately after crossing the Mexican border.</p><p>Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, portrayed the nationwide extension of “expedited removal” authority as another Trump administration effort to address an “ongoing crisis on the southern border” by freeing up beds in detention facilities and reducing a backlog of more than 900,000 cases in immigration courts.</p><p>U.S. authorities do not have space to detain “the vast majority” of people arrested on the Mexican border, leading to the release of hundreds of thousands with notices to appear in court, McAleenan said in the policy directive to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register. He said Homeland Security officials with the new deportation power will deport migrants in the country illegally more quickly than the Justice Department’s immigration courts, where cases can take years to resolve.</p><p>The agency “expects that the full use of expedited removal statutory authority will strengthen national security, diminish the number of illegal entries, and otherwise ensure the prompt removal of aliens apprehended in the United States,” McAleenan said.</p><p>The American Civil Liberties Union and American Immigration Council said they would sue to block the policy.</p><p>”Under this unlawful plan, immigrants who have lived here for years would be deported with less due process than people get in traffic court,” said Omar Jawdat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.</p><p>”Expedited removal” gives enforcement agencies broad authority to deport people without allowing them to appear before an immigration judge with limited exceptions, including if they express fear of returning home and pass an initial screening interview for asylum.</p><p>The powers were created under a 1996 law but went largely unnoticed until 2004, when Homeland Security said it would be enforced for people who are arrested within two weeks of entering the U.S. by land and caught within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of the border.</p><p>The fast-track deportations have become a major piece of U.S. immigration enforcement over the last decade. Critics have said it grants too much power to immigration agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.</p><p>The potential impact of the new measure is difficult to predict. McAleenan said 20,570 people arrested in the nation’s interior from October 2017 through September 2018 year had been in the U.S. less than two years, which would make them eligible for fast-track deportation under the new rule. Critics said the new measure’s impact could be more far-reaching because many in the U.S for longer than two years may be unable to prove they have been in the country for so long.</p><p>”Expanding the fast-track procedure to apply anywhere in the U.S. is a recipe for ripping thousands more families apart and devastating communities,” said Grace Meng, Human Rights Watch’s acting deputy U.S. director. “This is a massive and dangerous change.”</p><p>The administration said the expanded authority will likely mean less time for migrants in detention while cases wind their way through immigration court. The average stay in immigration detention for people in fast-track removal was 11.4 days from October 2017 through September 2018, compared to 51.5 days for people arrested in the nation’s interior.</p><p>The announcement was the second major policy shift in eight days following an unprecedented surge of families from Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.</p><p>Last week, the administration said it will deny asylum to anyone who passes through other countries en route to the U.S. without seeking protection in at least one of those countries. Two lawsuits were filed challenging the move. A judge in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Monday on whether to block the policy. Judge Timothy Kelly said he would “endeavor to rule on this as quickly as I can.”</p><p>A judge in San Francisco set a hearing for Wednesday in a similar lawsuit.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/7/22/20706333/trump-expands-fast-track-deportation-authority-across-usChloe HerringAssociated Press2019-07-19T20:52:30-05:002019-07-20T06:26:15-05:00Rock ‘n’ Rock Chicago race canceled over heat concerns
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<p>The organizers of Humana Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon series in Chicago have canceled one of its three weekend races due to concerns over “excessive heat.”</p><p>Organizers canceled Saturday’s 5K race, set to begin at 7:30 a.m. in Grant Park, after temperatures were expected to be too dangerous for participants, race organizers posted to Facebook on Friday evening. </p><p>Temperatures are expected to reach 94 degrees on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The heat index is forecast to be 105 to 110 degrees.</p><p>The excessive heat warning is expected to expire by Sunday morning, when the Rock ‘n’ Roll will kick off its <a class="Link" href="https://www.runrocknroll.com/Events/Chicago/The-Races/Courses" target="_blank" >two other planned races</a>, including a 10K and half marathon. Those races are still scheduled to happen.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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<p>Illinois legalized recreational marijuana in 2019, becoming the first state to do so by act of the legislature and not a popular vote.</p><p>While there are giant pieces of criminal justice and social equity reforms attached to the measure — including giving a second chance to thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession — at its most basic level, the bill allows Illinois residents over 21 to buy cannabis from licensed dispensaries.</p><p>The measure allows Illinoisans over 21 years old to possess 30 grams, or just over an ounce, of cannabis flower, and 5 grams, or less than a quarter-ounce, of cannabis concentrates such as hash oil. Additionally, Illinoisans can carry up to a half-gram of edible pot-infused products.</p><p></p>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A Chicago Police Department district tweeted a mock missing person notice to its Twitter account days before the official start of summer. The city has been plagued with less-than-pleasant weather that has included rain, fog and relatively chilly temperatures.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sun-Times Media</p></div></div>
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<p>With the official start to summer here, a Chicago Police Department district poked fun at the less-than-pleasant weather the city has been experiencing in a tweet about the “missing” season.</p><p>CPD’s 22nd Police District tweeted a mock missing person’s notice Wednesday claiming that summer was last seen in August 2018.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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</div></div><p>Summer begins June 21 and extends through most of September. But most Chicagoans expect clearer skies and warmer weather to coincide with the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/summer-guide/2019/5/19/18623470/2019-summer-music-festival-guide-chicago" target="_blank" >city’s robust festival season</a>, which kicks into high gear by June.</p><p>Chicago had a historically rainy May — the wettest on record since 1871, according to the National Weather Service — and June has followed suit with more rain, fog and relatively chilly temperatures.</p><p>The weather has been a topic of conversation online, where many people are questioning if Chicago’s summer has been canceled. </p><p>But if summer decides to arrive, don’t call the police: The police district’s tweet is directing calls to Mother Nature.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/21/18693829/summer-chicago-missing-policeChloe Herring2019-06-13T19:43:09-05:002019-06-13T20:16:56-05:00New York set to cut religious exemption to vaccine mandates
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>In this March 27, 2019 file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., north of New York City. On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, federal health officials updated the U.S. measles case count, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>AP</p></div></div>
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<p>ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is set to eliminate a religious exemption to vaccine requirements in the face of <a class="Link" href="https://www.apnews.com/17623ad3d23a4f5e8e3dda3b3559dae9" target="_blank" >its worst measles outbreak in decades</a>.</p><p>The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to repeal the exemption, which allows parents of children to cite their religious beliefs to opt a child out of the vaccines required for school enrollment.</p><p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has said he will sign the measure and could act on the legislation as soon as Thursday night.</p><p>Similar exemptions are allowed in 46 states, though lawmakers in several of them are also considering the elimination of the waiver.</p><p>”We are facing an unprecedented public health crisis,” said Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan and the sponsor of the legislation in the Senate. “The atrocious peddlers of junk science and fraudulent medicine who we know as anti-vaxxers have spent years sowing unwarranted doubt and fear, but it is time for legislators to confront them head on.”</p><p>Hundreds of parents of unvaccinated children gathered at New York’s Capitol before the vote to protest what several called an assault on religious freedom.</p><p>”People came to this country to get away from exactly this kind of stuff,” said Stan Yung, a Long Island attorney who has three children.</p><p>Yung, who is Russian Orthodox, said he has religious views and health concerns that will prevent him from vaccinating his three young children. His family, he said, may consider leaving the state if the bill is signed into law.</p><p>Supporters of the bill say religious beliefs about vaccines shouldn’t eclipse scientific evidence that they work, noting the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1905 that states have the right to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. During the Assembly’s floor debate, supporters brought up scourges of the past that were defeated in the U.S. through vaccines.</p><p>”I’m old enough to have been around when polio was a real threat,” said Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, D-Manhattan. “I believe in science.... Your personal opinions, which may be based on junk science, do not trump the greater good.”</p><p>Supporters also suggest some parents may be claiming the religious exemption for their children even though their opposition is actually based on misguided claims about scientifically discredited dangers of vaccines.</p><p>The bill would not change an existing state exemption given to children who cannot have vaccines for medical reasons, such as a weakened immune system.</p><p>Once signed, the law will take effect immediately but will give unvaccinated students up to 30 days after they enter a school to show they’ve had the first dose of each required immunization.</p><p>Cuomo supports eliminating the exemption, saying public health is at risk.</p><p>”I understand freedom of religion,” he told reporters Wednesday. “I have heard the anti-vaxxers’ theory, but I believe both are overwhelmed by the public health risk.”</p><p>Federal health officials said last week that this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses, the highest in 27 years. The majority of cases are from <a class="Link" href="https://www.apnews.com/17623ad3d23a4f5e8e3dda3b3559dae9" target="_blank" >outbreaks in New York</a> in Orthodox Jewish communities.</p><p>The nation last saw this many cases in 1992, when more than 2,200 were reported.</p><p>Legislation is pending in several state capitols to eliminate their version of the religious exemption.</p><p>California removed personal belief vaccine exemptions for children in both public and private schools in 2015, after a measles outbreak at Disneyland sickened 147 people and spread across the U.S. and into Canada. <a class="Link" href="https://www.apnews.com/6fd42d4fbdbb428ca7efa0104fa8da6d" target="_blank" >Maine ended its religious exemption</a> earlier this year.</p><p>Mississippi and West Virginia also do not allow religious exemptions.</p><p>Once common in the U.S., measles became rare after vaccination campaigns that started in the 1960s. A decade ago, there were fewer than 100 cases a year.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/13/18678445/vaccines-new-york-measles-outbreak-religious-exemptionChloe Herring2019-06-11T13:32:46-05:002019-06-11T16:32:10-05:00Alexandra Shipp is not ‘simple’ in latest incarnation of ‘Shaft’ — or in real life
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<p>Actress Alexandra Shipp, 27, says there’s no way around playing strong female roles because that’s just who she is. </p><p>Her portrayals of strong women date back to her breakout role as Aaliyah in a 2014 Lifetime biopic through her portrayal of Kimberly Woodruff in “Straight Outta Compton,” up to the new “Dark Phoenix,” in which she plays the weather-controlling Storm.</p><p>Arriving next is the latest “Shaft” movie, a film that tries its hardest to evolve while remaining true to elements from the original in 1971.</p><p>As Sasha, the childhood-friend-turned-love-interest of John Shaft III, played by Jessie T. Usher, Shipp gets tangentially involved in solving the murder of a military veteran and recovering drug addict on the verge of starting a new life.</p><p>For most of the film, Shipp’s character is a striking departure from the oversexualized portrayal of black women in the now-extinct blaxploitation genre — condemned for its use of negative stereotypes but also applauded for introducing black leads and largely black casts to Hollywood in the 1970s. In the new “Shaft” (opening Thursday), Sasha is independent, intelligent, fearless in expressing her opinions — and covered up.</p><p>Shipp said those qualities attracted her to the script.</p><p>“I don’t think I would’ve had a lot of respect for myself had I had my boobies out and everybody was like ‘Gimme the [sex],’ which is kind of how these movies have been: very misogynistic,” she said. “We’re saying something different with [this film].”</p><p>During a recent interview in Chicago, Shipp said she hopes her character makes women, especially black women, feel seen and heard.</p><p>“With every job I try to take on, I really do try and add some socially commentative aspects to it,” Shipp said. “If I’m being real, black women are the most overly sexualized, exploited and targeted people on the planet. And it’s nice that in this movie we are allowed to be queens and be seen as such and treated as such.”</p><p>Shipp’s character challenges ideas about romance, loyalty, religion and even gun ownership while also encouraging herself to be her best version. In one of the most relatable scenes in the movie, the youngest John Shaft — or JJ as he’s called — makes a huge crack in a murder case and Sasha must decide whether to make a risky change of plans.</p><p>“Don’t be a simple b----,” she tells herself, wrestling with her options.</p><p>The term “simple b----” is a spin on a classic in millennial slang: the “basic b----,” defined on <a class="Link" href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/basic-bitch/" target="_blank" >Dictionary.com</a> as a term “used to condescendingly refer to women who have predictable or unoriginal style, interests, or behavior.”</p><p>To be labeled “basic,” is to have sunken to a level of mediocrity so extreme, so oblivious in nature that it warrants pity — or worse, disgust. It’s to be too lazy, too dimwitted or too uninspired to rise to any occasion worthy of your best self, and thus it’s a label to avoid. </p><p>“For me,” Shipp said, “I was just like, you know, there’s always the girl who shows up because she thinks she’s going to help ... and she always gets caught.” </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Alexandra Shipp plays the love interest of John Shaft III (Jessie T. Usher) in “Shaft.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>New Line Cinema</p></div></div>
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</div><p>The “simple b----” line, as it turns out, was an ad lib, she said. It is also an example of Shipp’s strong personality informing the roles she plays. </p><p>“Yeah, I have those moments with myself all the time where I’m like, ‘OK, how basic b---- is that going to seem?’ ” she said.</p><p>So what are the best ways to circumvent the trappings of a “basic b----”? Shipp breaks it down into three simple steps.</p><p>The first is no “f---boys” — another millennial term used to describe immature men who insist on being involved with women (usually several at once, though they’re unlikely to be forthcoming with any details) but refuse to commit, ultimately wasting time and often breaking hearts. Shipp says they’re a big no-no.</p><p>“Simple b----es go with f---boys. That’s just the reality of the situation, so that’s No. 1,” she said.</p><p>The second way to avoid making yourself seem basic is to think, “because if you have reasons for why you’re doing something, then you ain’t a simple b----,” Shipp said. “You might’ve been wrong, but you thought about it.”</p><p>Shipp’s final rule to avoid being basic is to have integrity, something she said is “very rare these days.” It’s a principle she follows while selecting her roles.</p><p>“It’s not just, ‘Am I a strong female character?’ But ‘Am I going to be able to change one’s mind?’ That’s something where I can walk away and go. ‘OK, I’m proud of that,’” Shipp said. “And I only want to do things that I’m proud of.”</p><p></p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/11/18652827/alexandra-shipp-shaft-movie-simple-b-wordChloe Herring2019-06-06T20:11:47-05:002019-06-06T20:11:48-05:00Joe Biden reverses, now supports using federal funds for abortions
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, beside Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, right, and renderings of a park in being constructed in Boston in honor of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>AP</p></div></div>
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<p>ATLANTA — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is reversing course and declaring that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.</p><p>Biden made the declaration Thursday following two days of <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/65e6f01d4c354cc4a38d3a185596b392" target="_blank" >intense scrutiny and criticism</a> from rivals after his campaign affirmed that the 76-year-old former vice president still supported the Hyde Amendment.</p><p>Biden said at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Atlanta that keeping Hyde would prevent poor women from exercising their constitutional rights to terminate a pregnancy. He pointed to Republican-run states imposing new abortion restrictions.</p><p>The Democratic front-runner defended his previous support for the Hyde Amendment. He said he supported it because he thought that there was wide enough access to abortion services without any Medicaid or other government support for it.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/6/18655959/joe-biden-2020-abortion-hyde-amendmentChloe Herring2019-05-20T18:58:36-05:002019-05-21T09:11:14-05:00Lightfoot, sworn in as Chicago mayor, quickly delivers on campaign promise
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>In her first official act after her inauguration, Mayor Lori Lightfoot signs an executive order limiting aldermanic prerogative.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Fran Spielman/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Chicago’s new mayor launched her history-making administration with a shot across the bow at aldermen whose support she needs to solve Chicago’s financial crisis.</p><p>“For years, they’ve said Chicago ain’t ready for reform. Well, get ready, because reform is here,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during her inaugural address on Monday.</p><p>Thousands gathered at Wintrust Arena to witness the inauguration of Chicago’s first openly gay and African-American female mayor. They rose to their feet in rousing applause. </p><p>As it turned out, their new mayor was just getting warmed up.</p><p>After returning to City Hall, Lightfoot made good on a key campaign pledge by signing an executive order stripping aldermen of their absolute power over licenses and permits in their wards.</p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/20/18633342/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-campaign-promiseChloe Herring2019-04-30T18:54:06-05:002019-12-05T12:35:37-06:00Ex-husband: AJ Freund's mom destroyed our home, was ruined by drugs
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>JoAnn Cunningham, now charged with murdering her son 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund, was once a beautiful woman before “the drugs took hold,” her former husband Craig Summerkamp said in an interview with Daily Mail. | Crystal Lake Police Department</p></figcaption></div>
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<p>A Crystal Lake mother <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-aj-freund-crystal-lake-police-missing-child-joanne-cunningham/" target="_blank" >now charged with first-degree murder of her son</a>, 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund, was once a beautiful woman before “the drugs took hold,” according to her ex-husband.</p><p>Craig Summerkamp and JoAnn Cunningham were married in May 2009. The couple shared no children and their relationship ended after Summerkamp filed for divorce in January 2012, <a class="Link" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6972283/Ex-husband-mother-accused-killing-AJ-Freund-tells-prescription-pill-addiction.html" target="_blank" >Daily Mail reports</a>.</p><p>While they were together, Summerkamp said Cunningham started complaining of body aches and got a prescription from a doctor to address the pain. Shortly after, his relationship with Cunningham started to sour, Summerkamp said.</p><p>“Our marriage started off well and it was like a switch flipped in her head,” he said. “She was a decent person, but then she got hooked on pills and it all went downhill super fast.”</p><p>During their divorce proceedings, Cunningham became romantically involved with Andrew Freund, Sr. after he tried to console her in a Woodstock courthouse, Summerkamp says. Freund also became her lawyer, records show.</p><p>“She was out in the hallway moping and crying, and he […] went over and started talking to her. The next thing I knew he was her lawyer and it developed into whatever relationship they had,” Summerkamp said.</p><p>As part of their divorce, Summerkamp agreed to Cunningham staying in their once-shared home in McHenry. Freund also began to live in the home, Summerkamp said. According to accounts from police and others, the house smelled of dog feces and urine, had major bug and mold problems and appeared to have fires in several kitchen appliances.</p><p>Freund and Cunningham had two children together. One was AJ, who on April 18 was reported missing by his father. One week later, the boy was found in a shallow grave. An autopsy report showed the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-cause-of-death-beaten-joann-cunningham-parents-cold-shower/" target="_blank" >5 year old died from blows to the head</a>.</p><p>“I knew she wasn’t all there in the head but I never thought she would go this far,” Summerkamp told the Daily Mail.</p><p>AJ’s family has released a statement to counter narratives that his life was full of tragedy — starting from the day he was born with opiates in his system, to <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-joann-cunningham-crystal-lake-911-call-missing-boy-dole/" target="_blank" >living in filfth</a> at his final home in Crystal Lake and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-aj-new-details-dcfs-timeline/" target="_blank" >enduring possible abuse</a>, to allegedly being killed by his own parents. The statement read, in part:</p><p>“We, the family that lovingly cared for Andrew (AJ) during the first 18 months of his life […] want everyone to know that AJ was loved by us with all our hearts. […] He was, and will always be, our loving and caring little boy.”</p><p>Cunningham is charged with five counts of first-degree murder, four counts of aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated domestic battery and one count of failure to report a missing child or child death. Freund, Sr. is also charged with five counts of first-degree murder, in addition to two counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated domestic battery, two counts of concealment of a homicidal death and one count of failure to report a missing child or child death.</p><p>Cunningham is seven months pregnant, according to AJ’s foster family. The foster family said the little boy’s death could mean a fighting chance for his siblings.</p><p>“With his brave short life, AJ made the ultimate sacrifice to save his younger brother and unborn sibling,” the statement read. “His life shall not be in vain. AJ will always be our little superhero.”</p><h4>RELATED</h4><ul><li><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-aj-freund-crystal-lake-police-missing-child-joanne-cunningham/" target="_blank" >Parents charged with murder of Crystal Lake 5-year-old AJ Freund</a></li><li><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-cause-of-death-beaten-joann-cunningham-parents-cold-shower/" target="_blank" >AJ Freund died from blows to the head, coroner says</a></li><li><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-joann-cunningham-crystal-lake-911-call-missing-boy-dole/" target="_blank" >Missing boy, 5, lived in Crystal Lake home full of dog feces, records show</a></li><li><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-aj-freund-missing-crystal-lake-dole-fbi/" target="_blank" >Family of missing Crystal Lake boy has lengthy history with DCFS: officials</a></li><li><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andrew-freund-aj-new-details-dcfs-timeline/" target="_blank" >New DCFS timeline of AJ Freund case: ‘Maybe someone hit me with a belt’</a></li></ul>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/4/30/18619055/ex-husband-aj-freund-s-mom-destroyed-our-home-was-ruined-by-drugsChloe Herring