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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Remembering The Highland Park Victims

As we learn the identities of the seven people killed in the Highland Park parade shooting, their loved ones are speaking out about how they want them to be remembered. Reset hears from WBEZ education reporter Susie An, who talked to the friends, families and neighbors of those who were killed or injured in the deadly attack.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Another White Shooter Apprehended ‘Without Incident’

The Highland Park shooter was arrested “peacefully” despite being heavily armed. Meanwhile, an unarmed Black man in Akron, Ohio, was shot 60 times and killed by officers. Reset checks in with Brookings Institution senior fellow Rashawn Ray, who says the two stories help illustrate the fact that Black people are many times more likely than white people to be killed by police in the U.S.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Black Maternal Mortality Post-Roe (Part Two)

While abortion is still legal in Illinois, experts expect the overturning of Roe v. Wade to have a lasting impact on existing healthcare inequities in the region. Reset discusses the relationship between abortion access and pregnancy health outcomes with Dr. Sadia Haider, division director of family planning at Rush University Medical Center, and Mathematica health analyst Sara Bovat.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Black Maternal Mortality Post-Roe (Part One)

Black Chicagoans are six times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white Chicagoans, according to a 2019 city report. Reset breaks down national and local efforts to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for Black parents with Jamila Taylor with The Century Foundation and Dr. Candice Robinson of the Chicago Department of Public Health.
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Curious City - Traveling Parties: A Queer Chicago Culture of Partying as Resistance

The history of traveling queer parties in Chicago is rooted in exclusion and racism. This week, we spoke with Pat McCombs and Vera Washington — longtime organizers of Executive Sweet, a traveling party focused on Black lesbians that got its start in the 1980s. We also talked with Tori and Jae Rice of smallWORLD Collective, a group that organizes events today — and learned how queer Black organizers have been at the forefront of traveling parties in Chicago.