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Is Chance using his fame for good OR is he using it for more fame?  Does it matter?

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What is the best use of Chance's celebrity?
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Should celebrities like Chance use their fame and money to involve themselves in politics, econmic and social issues?  Why or why not? Is he overly-involved?

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Social Works (keep clicking "load more" until you find something you are interetsed in)

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Social Works (keep clicking "load more" until you find something you are interetsed in)

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Chance the Rapper donates $1 million to Chicago Public Schools | CNN

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After a disappointing meeting with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner last Friday, Chance the Rapper has decided to address Chicago Public Schools' funding deficit himself.

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Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy "Short Film"

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Chance The Rapper - So Good ( Good Ass Intro) (Official Video)

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Project Swish Chicago Celebrity Softball Game

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Project Swish Chicago Celebrity Softball Game

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/ CBS Chicago

Project sWISH Chicago celebrates 4th anniversary with big events this weekend

CHICAGO(CBS) - A South Side nonprofit organization will host two big events this weekend while celebrating its 4th anniversary.

Project sWISH is set to host a back-to-school and community festival followed by a celebrity softball game Sunday.

The event will take place from noon to 6 p.m. at the DuSable Black History Museum Plaza, located at 740 E. 56th Place.

The festival will include a book bag and school supply giveaway, vaccinations, immunizations, bouncy houses, food, music, resource tables, and haircuts.

Celebrities and influencers will also be in attendance including Chicago-based rappers G-Herbo, Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, musical artist Lil Zay Osama along with several NBA players.

Project sWISH Chicago has reached over 2,000 youth and provides free basketball leagues and open runs in underserved communities during statistically high crime times to provide a safe haven and build a sense of community.

The program also offers non-traditional therapeutic programs such as yoga and art therapy with licensed instructors with the goal of promoting healing and providing youth and young adults with a platform to be vulnerable and have a voice.

"Project sWish was created with the goal of uniting the community and providing a safe and supportive environment for Chicago youth," said Project sWish founder McKinley Nelson. "With support from so many, my heart is full as we enter the fourth year of this yearly celebration. With this event, we have created a safe space for students, parents, and others to come together, celebrate, and prepare for the time-honored tradition of heading back to school."

The event is free and open to the public. More information about the event can be found at projectswishchicago.com.

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Project sWISH to celebrate 4th anniversary with back-to-school giveaway, celebrity softball game

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Project sWISH is set to host a back-to-school and community festival followed by a celebrity softball game Sunday.

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Chance the Rapper ft. Joey Bada$$ - The Highs & The Lows (2022) | [Official Music Video]

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Chance the Rapper had some very important weekend plans.

In a video posted to Instagram Sunday, the 29-year-old artist gave a glimpse into the Chance & Bri's Books & Breakfast event he attended in his hometown of Chicago with his two young daughters.

"Chicago I would never tell u to bring your kids somewhere, that I don't trust to bring my own kids," he captioned the cute clip, where he walked around with daughters Marli, 2, and Kensli, 6, looking at stacks of books, making crafts, and sharing hugs.

"They love it every time," he added on his Instagram Story with a wide-eyed emoji.

Chance & Bri's Books & Breakfast is a program for 3-8-year-olds established through a partnership between Boundless Early Education, the Chicago Park District and the Grammy Award-winning musician that "supports families in nurturing strong early readers," according to the nonprofit.

Chance and Boundless Early Education founder/director Briana McLean, an author and early childhood educator, started hosting the Books & Breakfast programming in July 2021, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The events offer free breakfast, free books, story time, family photos and more.

As seen in Chance's recap, in a lighthearted moment, both Marli and Kensli, whom he shares with wife Kirsten Corley Bennett, seized the opportunity to pull off their dad's iconic "3" baseball cap.

In April 2020, the doting dad told PEOPLE that Marli was starting to learn a few words - and bringing some much-needed humor to the family as they isolated at home during the pandemic.

"Her first word was 'Dada,' which I'm proud to say both of my girls' first words were 'Dad' basically," he said. "She calls everybody 'Dada' now. She even calls her toys and her pacifier 'Dada,' so that's just her go-to phrase now."

"I was making a bite for Kensli, and [Marli] was in her little walker. She wobbled over to me and I was like, 'Heyyyy' and she responded the exact same little 'Heyyyy' back to me," Chance added at the time. "It was in key and matched my energy perfectly. I was like 'Damn, can you talk? That's crazy.' That was a crazy moment for me. I laughed at it."

He went on to say he had an even stronger appreciation for his loved ones: "I've been waking up daily with newfound gratitude and being very grateful that I'm married right now," he said. "The fact that me, my daughters and my wife all live in one house together is a huge, huge blessing, so I've just been taking that in."

The "No Problem" rapper often gives back to his hometown. In April, in celebration of his 29th birthday on Saturday, Chance organized a meal giveaway through his non-profit SocialWorks.

"Happening now Chicago! Holiday Meal Giveaway 8560 S. Cottage Grove. 1,500 free meals for the community," Chance wrote on Instagram with a video of the event.

In the clip, the camera follows volunteers and people in cars as they exchange food. The post also shows off Chance's Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor "Mint Chocolate Chance."

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Chance the Rapper Attends Sweet 'Books & Breakfast' Event with His Daughters in Chicago

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Chance the Rapper launched series of free literacy events for kids with author Briana McLean in July 2021

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Chance the Rapper - Child of God (2022) | [Official Music Video]

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This summer Chance responded to critics who claimed he "fell off."  Read his response below (edited).  You can watch it on video, but language warning alarm!

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This summer Chance responded to critics who claimed he "fell off."  Read his response below (edited).  You can watch it on video, but language warning alarm!

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On the Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Charlamagne tha God asked Chance, “How hard is it to not feed into criticism you may see of yourself online? Because there is a lot of chatter online that they like to say Chance the Rapper fell off, that’s their language.”

“Man. I don’t know,” the 29-year-old replied just after the 41-minute mark above. “To me it’s like, I could do one of two things: I could either agree with it, or I could live my life. If I agree with it, then that means the Breakfast Club fell off, ’cause y’all don’t have people that fell off sitting in your chair I don’t think, usually. And so I feel like I gotta stay on my path.”
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Chano assured the Breakfast Club team he’s a lifelong creator who’s here to stay, noting the fall-off narrative reminds him of the type of commodification he’s strived to avoid as an independent musician. “I could listen to people that think about artists like they’re f--kin’ Pokémon cards, like these commodified trading cards that’s like, ‘Oh, your f--kin’ 2K rating just went down.’ Like, f--k them n***as, these n***as is lame as hell!” he said. “They’ve never been on. If I fell off, at least I was on.”

https://www.complex.com/music/chance-the-rapper-weighs-in-on-fans-saying-he-fell-off

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The Big Day wasn't Chance the Rapper 's biggest moment, but three years after his debut album's release, any perceptions of a fall-off haven't stuck with him.

On the Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Charlamagne tha God asked Chance, "How hard is it to not feed into criticism you may see of yourself online? Because there is a lot of chatter online that they like to say Chance the Rapper fell off, that's their language."

"Man. I don't know," the 29-year-old replied just after the 41-minute mark above. "To me it's like, I could do one of two things: I could either agree with it, or I could live my life. If I agree with it, then that means the Breakfast Club fell off, 'cause y'all don't have people that fell off sitting in your chair I don't think, usually. And so I feel like I gotta stay on my path."

The creator of Acid Rap and Coloring Book remembers people telling him he'd lost his fastball almost as soon as he got started. "N***as was saying I fell off when I was in high school," the Chicago native said, getting particularly animated. "I made four mixtapes! N***as was telling me in high school, 'Your last tape was better.' I'm like, 'N***a, I'm 15!' ... I can joke about it, but it is tough, but it's like, I don't know, what can I say? Tell people that my feelings are hurt?"

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Chance the Rapper Weighs in on Fans Who Say He 'Fell Off'

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Charlamagne asked Chance about people saying he fell off, leading the rapper to lambast listeners that "think about artists like they're f*ckin' Pokémon cards."

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The goal of Warmest Winter 2016, a project co-created by Chicago artist Chance The Rapper and a Detroit-based nonprofit called The Empowerment Plan, is to give 1,000 coats to Chicago's homeless.

This project, though, isn't your ordinary coat drive.

For one thing, the coats manufactured by Warmest Winter 2016 are high-tech creations that the project says can save lives.

"The EMPWR coat is a water-resistant and self-heating jacket, which can transform into a sleeping bag, or be worn as an over-the-shoulder bag when not in use," the website says, adding that the coats can reduce the number of deaths of homeless people due to hypothermia by 20 percent.

Additionally, the coats are manufactured at the Empowerment Plan factory in Detroit, which hires "homeless parents from local shelters to become full time seamstresses so that they can earn a stable income, find secure housing, and gain back their independence for themselves and for their families."

Though distributing coats to people experiencing homelessness in Chicago is the project's immediate plan, the ultimate goal of the partnership is to open an Empowerment Plan factory in Chicago to bring jobs to the city as well.

Chance The Rapper, who was a guest on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me in August, has been promoting the project on his Twitter page. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than $7,500, or 75 coats, had been raised within hours of the artist's first tweet about the project. By Friday afternoon, nearly $25,000 had been donated.

The project runs from Dec. 16 through Jan. 13. Donors can give various amounts and are entered in raffles to win tickets to Chicago Bulls games, White Sox games or Chance The Rapper shows.

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Chicago's Chance The Rapper Joins With Nonprofit To Give Coats To Homeless

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The high-tech outerwear, which can also serve as sleeping bags, are manufactured in Detroit by homeless parents to help them earn a steady income.

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The O'My's "Wonder Years" Featuring Chance The Rapper

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Chance the Rapper on 10 Years Since His Mixtape 10 Day & His Black Star Line Festival | Tonight Show

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A weekend of no shootings.

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Buzzing Chicago artist Chance The Rapper (pictured) was instrumental in a social media campaign that led to a quieting of the escalating gun violence in the Windy City for 42 hours straight. Using Twitter to spread a message of hope, Chance partnered with his father in an ambitious mission to combat the rising murder rate in his beloved hometown.
SEE ALSO: Kaylen Woodard: 6-Year-Old Chicago Boy Saves Friend From Abduction [VIDEO] The campaign was largely a secret, and Chance explained the impetus behind the #SaveChicago movement in a series of tweets earlier Tuesday.

"[W]hen i was in LA My pops asked me to help with a project. He was tryin to get Community Org's in CHI to prevent every murder on Memorial Day," tweeted Chance.

Chance The Rapper's tweets related to the event below:

"He had talked to Churches, Schools, Outreach Prog's and Business's, trying to get them to commit to saving every life possible yesterday. The plan was to get these mass numbers of people out on street corners Friday night with posters and banners with the plea "#SAVECHICAGO."

His plan was to get radio stations like @WGCI and @Power92Chicago to say "PUT YOUR GUNS DOWN CHICAGO" every hour on the hour the wk before. all he asked of me was to say something on social media. and so i did ambiguously through tweets that hinted at an album, or a song #MAY23rd.

And even though i was outta town i checked in constantly. come to FIND OUT WE WENT 42 HOURS FROM THURSDAY TO SATURDAY NIGHT W/O ONE SHOOTING.

However, Chance would point out that on Monday, a man was killed and seven others were shot on the actual Memorial Day holiday throughout the city. There isn't any proof that Chance and his father's street-level campaign actually held the violence at bay, but it does give some measure of hope that the city can turn its fortunes around.
Chance posted an article from the Chicago Tribune highlighting the killing and shootings, ending it with a plea saying:

"Read that from top to bottom and then come help us #SaveChicago."

Chance The Rapper's 2013 breakout mixtape, "Acid Rap," catapulted him on to the national stage. He has toured with actor/rapper Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) and has addressed gang violence in Chicago on his last release.
SEE ALSO: NewsOne Minute: Homeless DC Teen Gets Full Ride To Georgetown

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Chicago's Chance The Rapper Helps Stop Gun Violence In City For 42 Hours

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Buzzing Chicago artist Chance The Rapper (pictured) was instrumental in a social media campaign that led to a quieting of the escalating gun violence in the Windy City for 42 hours straight. Using ...