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Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, students from one dozen Chicago Public Schools are experiencing ...

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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing ...

Some of these writers died too young to continue. Others walked away deliberately, choosing quiet lives over literary fame. A ...