WATCH: Black artists featured in live art studio at Navy Pier Children’s Museum
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By Kierstin Lindkvist Medill Reports During Black History Month, local Black artists have been featured at the Navy Pier Chicago Children’s Museum showing off their art and giving kids a glimpse at live painting. One of these artists is Dana Todd Pope: a mother of two whose art is all about painting the types of images she wanted […]
Q&A: Lisa Cole, mother of Chicago women’s football, reflects on sport’s 20th anniversary
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By John Volk Medill Reports Lisa Cole is George Halas — that is, if the Chicago Bears founder and owner were a 29-year-old gay woman with a penchant for blue jeans. Two decades ago, Cole, now 49, founded the Chicago Force, the city’s first professional women’s tackle football team. A Massachusetts native and marketing specialist […]