The Weekend Desk Report

"Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, spoke from a podium draped in the red, black and green of the Pan-African flag, a symbol of black pride," AP reports.

It was the week after Donald Trump won the presidency. The result had delighted a new generation of white supremacists, and Farrakhan was analyzing the political landscape.

In a speech before the State of the Black World Conference in New Jersey, he warned, "The white man is going to push. He's putting in place the very thing that will limit the freedom of others." Then he pointed to the crowd, smiled and said, "That's what you needed," as motivation to finally separate from whites.

"My message to Mr. Trump: Push it real good," Farrakhan said, building to a roar that drew applause and cheers. "Push it so good that black people say, 'I'm outta here. I can't take it no more.'"

Once more unto the breach, dear friends . . .

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

These, it is said, are the times that try our souls - tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.

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The Sinking Of The Abu Nawal
500 Migrants Drowned At Sea. No One Investigated.

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McDonald's Moving International Tax Base To UK
Chicago-based company coming under increased scrutiny from European Union regulators over its tax arrangements.

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TrackNotes: What's He To You?
"When I heard about the passing early this week of former jockey, former great, Garrett Gomez, the sadness simmered along with the memories and the question: What does this really mean to me?"

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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #132: Bulls Shit
Team Hoiberg falls of the cliff. Plus: RealFeeling The Bears and Joe Maddon Fails To Embrace The Target Of Accountability.

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24 Hours With RUS-TV
Podrobnosti . . . Details.

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The Week In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Pegboy, Pelican, My Epic, Silent Planet, Olivia Block, Mike Weis, The Mr. T Experience, Norma Jean, For Today, New Dougs, and Sidney Fenix & Azieb Abraha.

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The Sound Opinions Weekend Listening Report: "It's time for the 2016 Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular! Each year, Jim and Greg are joined by holiday music collector Andy Cirzan, who shares a mix of rare Christmas records scavenged from dusty record bins around the world."

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Weekend BeachBook

Larry Colburn, Who Helped Stop My Lai Massacre, Dies At 67.

American hero.

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5 Creepy Changes The Government Forced On Movies & TV Shows.

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Where Memory Leads.

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Ivanka Trump's Boots Are Getting Hilariously Brutal Reviews On Amazon.

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David Bazan's Holiday Tunes Are A Melancholic Yule.

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How WLS Broke "Crimson and Clover."

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Bystander President To The End.

Eight years of 'Somebody really ought to do something' coming to a close.

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A New Front In Illinois Against Domestic Abuse: The Hairstylist's Chair.

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Elena Delle Donne Threatens To Leave Chicago.

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Beachwood Santas!

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Weekend TweetWood

How Does Cook County Wildlife Prepare For, Handle Winter? - Forest Preserves of Cook County https://t.co/714a2ZXrez

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 18, 2016

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Trump names new NASA director: pic.twitter.com/h2yf6jF1eh

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 17, 2016

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This should be getting more attention.

A Sinclair journalist relayed to me during campaign they were told by corporate what questions to ask Trump https://t.co/8ihwnGDEPB pic.twitter.com/L9SMZT3HRd

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) December 16, 2016

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It's so COLD at the @Vikings tailgate in (-20°... wind chill -34°) that they're using fire to keep the beer from freezing. #greatwhitenorth pic.twitter.com/QjIEWgBO76

— Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) December 18, 2016

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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Brain freeze.

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