This Year (poem)Lawrence Hartmannon October 27, 2020 at 1:22 am
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Hall of Fame Jackson State football coach W.C. Gorden dies at 90Associated Presson October 26, 2020 at 9:53 pm
Jackson State’s Hall of Fame football coach W.C. Gorden has died at age 90. | Jackson State University
Gorden led Jackson State to a 28-game Southwestern Athletic Conference winning streak while building a league power in the late 1980s.
JACKSON, Miss. — W.C. Gorden, a Hall of Fame coach who led Jackson State to a 28-game Southwestern Athletic Conference winning streak while building a league power in the late 1980s, has died. He was 90.
The school announced on its athletics website that Gorden died Friday night after being informed by his family. Considered JSU’s winningest coach, Gorden went 119-47-5 from 1976-91 after serving as defensive coordinator and head baseball coach. The Tigers won eight SWAC titles and reached the NCAA playoffs nine times under Gorden, who worked two years as athletic director at the historically Black college after retiring as coach.
Gorden was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. The Mississippi legislature in 1997 honored the Nashville, Tennessee, native with a proclamation as JSU’s winningest coach and credited his academic oversight for JSU having the highest graduation rate in the SWAC and higher than the student body.
Making Wallpaper of Chicago’s Nature Sceneson October 26, 2020 at 8:52 pm
North Shore–based Merinda Studio will turn the walls of your home outside-in.Read More
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Decades of friendship enrich a new collaboration by rapper Rich Jones and producer Montana MacksLeor Galilon October 26, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Rapper-singer Rich Jones and producer Montana Macks have been friends for nearly two decades, which surely helps explain how the Chicagoans’ new self-released album, How Do You Sleep at Night?, hits so smoothly. For the past few years, Jones has leaned into the downy plushness of his voice, more and more often rhyming in a relaxed croon—and he’s also one of the few MCs who can drop Yiddish into the middle of a verse without sounding fakakta (the exact word he uses in “Clicksonmyphone”).…Read More
Remembering Benji Espinoza, champion of Chicago house musicJacob Arnoldon October 26, 2020 at 6:10 pm
Benji Espinoza’s work for Quantum Distributors and the D.J. International label helped boost house into its exalted place in the global pop pantheon.
Benji Espinoza played a key role in promoting early Chicago house music to a global audience, both as founder of Quantum Distributors and by working in sales, distribution, and artist management for the pioneering D.J. International label.…Read More