This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 6/3 5:40P Leor Galil

Many musicians and labels will donate the day’s Bandcamp money to support the fight for Black lives. At the end of April, Bandcamp announced that it would waive its revenue share on the first Fridays...

The Pivot Arts Festival and more Chicago things to enjoy online June 4-10

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 4:08P Mary Houlihan - For the Sun-Time

“The Rosina Project” is among the lineup for this year’s online Pivot Arts Festival. | Vin Reed There’s a whole lot of local entertainment options to enjoy online in the week ahead. Pivoting online...

South Side eateries open for business amid ‘double-whammy’ of COVID-19, protests turning violent

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 4:03P Evan F. Moore

Customers at The Woodlawn, a Chatham eatery and event space, await their food while enjoying the patio. | Evan F. Moore/Sun-Times South Side black restaurateurs are striving for normalcy while facing...

Hundreds of protesters pause for 9 minutes to remember George Floyd at Dunbar Park rally

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 3:44P Ben Pope

Protestors kneeled for nine minutes in Dunbar Park near the conclusion of a Wednesday protest. | Ben Pope/Sun-Times A caravan of cars stretched for more than half a mile on South King Drive during the...

Man killed in South Austin shooting

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 3:23P Sun-Times Wire

A man was fatally shot May 31, 2020, in South Austin on the West Side. | Sun-Times file photo Robert English, 24, was riding in a vehicle when he was shot, officials said. A man was shot to death...

We can do this, Chicago — a safe and cautious reopening

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:52P CST Editorial Board

Caryn Garaygay (left) and Pacita Castillo-Reiter eat at Kanela Breakfast Club, 5413 N. Clark St. in Andersonville, on Wednesday morning, June 3, 2020. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times In the face of a...

Chicago Bears DT Akiem Hicks: ‘I’ve been censored my whole life’

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:50P Jason Lieser

Hicks says life can be challenging as not only a black man, but one who is 6-foot-4, 352 pounds. | Getty Hicks said he’s learned to swim through other peoples’ assumptions and will continue to do so...

Black woman says Chicago cop pulled her from car by hair, knelt on her neck before she was arrested

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:44P Mitch Dudek

Mia Wright (left) and her cosuin, Tnika Tate. | Provided Mia Wright said a police officer put his knee on her neck after pulling her from the car. Wright and other family members have no idea why they...

Dr. Conrad Worrill, a man for all seasons

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:17P Mary Mitchell

Besides being a superstar black nationalist in the tradition of Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey, Dr. Conrad Worrill was a professor, a political organizer, an education advocate, a black institution...

Pritzker adds Lake, four downstate counties to disaster proclamation amid civil unrest

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:16P Mitchell Armentrout

Members of the Illinois National Guard keep watch and direct traffic at their post outside McCormick Place near East 24th Place and South King Drive on Wednesday. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times Lake...

Chicagoans flock to restaurants for the next phase of reopening: ‘Feels so weird being back’

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 2:11P Mitch Dudek

Andrew Carpenter brought a chair to wait in line for a haircut Wednesday at Father & Son Barber Shop in Edgewater. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times Haircuts, salon appointments, breakfast and beers are...

Man accused of plowing his car into Chicago cop car after curfew among those facing gun charges

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 12:15P Jon Seidel

Dirksen Federal Courthouse | Sun-Times So is a man spotted leaving a store through a broken window early Monday morning. A man who allegedly crashed his car into a Chicago police vehicle while trying...

Exhausted, abused Chicago Police officers need a break, top cop says

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 12:13P Fran Spielman

A man is taken into custody Monday as Chicago police officers clash with hundreds of protesters outside a store that had been looted near East 71st Street and South Chappel Avenue. | Ashlee Rezin...

Little Village residents march in support of Black Lives Matter protesters

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 12:04P Elvia Malagón

Protesters kneel and take a minute of silence in respect to George Floyd during a rally on 26th Street in Little Village, Chicago, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. After days of racial violence in Little...

Man charged with fatally stabbing nephew in South Shore

Chicago Sun-Times (Entertainment) 6/3 12:00P Matthew Hendrickson

David Moore, 51, faces one count of first-degree murder and was ordered held on $250,000 bail Wednesday during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. | Andy Grimm for the Sun-Times “If you...