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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. Later in the program, we hear a selection from a recent Interchange with guest Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …

The Checkerboard Lounge permanently closed its doors in 2015 – but these doors were not those of the storied blues shrine that had stood on 43rd Street since 1972. The demise of this cultural mainstay opens Davarian Baldwin’s new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universites Are Plundering Our Cities. In 2003 the University of Chicago put …