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The FBI's files on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tell more about government intrigue than they do about his assassination and his work, according to the King Institute at Stanford University, the King family and biographer Jonathan Eig. The government illegally wiretapped Dr. King's phones and bugged his hotel rooms when he traveled, because of King's association with suspected members of the communist party during the Cold War. In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump released the King files and those of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

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Clarence T. Bryant Jr., a StreetWise participant, selfpublished "Unequal Roots," which says that Black and white Americans have unequal opportunities because Black Americans are weighed down by factors such as the justice system and the media.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Compiled by Dave Hamilton

A Classic Revisitied!

‘Salome’ Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2025/26 Season continues with Richard Strauss’s scandalous "Salome," on stage January 25 – February 14. One of opera's most provocative works returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years in Sir David McVicar’s decadent production transported to 1930s fascist Italy. Acclaimed soprano Elena Stikhina makes her Lyric debut as the young princess consumed by forbidden desire, joined by Lyric favorites Brandon Jovanovich and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as her volatile parents, Herod and Herodias. Rising star Nicholas Brownlee makes his Lyric debut as Jochanaan, the imprisoned prophet who refuses her advances. Conductor Tomáš Netopil makes his Lyric debut leading an expanded Lyric Opera Orchestra through Strauss’s revolutionary score. This is an unsparing opera — where obsession leads to violence, seduction turns lethal, and one dance changes everything. From the infamous "Dance of the Seven Veils" to opera’s most famous silver platter, “Salome” shows that when a teenage princess doesn’t get her way, heads will roll. Tickets start at $47 at lyricopera.org.

Settling Into a New Home!

‘In America’s Embrace: Celebrating Immigrant Composers’ Chicago Opera Theater presents “In America’s Embrace: Celebrating Immigrant Composers,” a wide-ranging program of opera, musical theater and song by composers who fled their native countries and came to America—some as children, others later in life—finding safety, possibility, and a place to create. The composers featured on this program include Kurt Weill, Irving Berlin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Igor Stravinsky, Aleksandra Vrebalov, André Previn and others who not only adopted America as their homeland, but also indelibly shaped the course of America’s musical landscape. Sunday, January 18 at 3 p.m. at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building, 410 S Michigan Ave. Tickets start at $25 at cot.org.

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Remembering a Leader!

56th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance Dinner The public is invited to this year’s 56th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance Dinner on Saturday, January 17, at 6 p.m. at The Cotillion Banquets, 360 S. Creekside Drive, Palatine. The event is led and hosted by a former friend and colleague of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Clyde Brooks, Founder/Chairman of ICDHR (Illinois Commission on Diversity & Human Relations). ICDHR is honored to feature Illinois Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Rochford as the evening’s featured speaker. The program will also include a performance by the Grammy Award–winning Soul Children Chicago, led by Walt Whitman. Attendees can expect timely perspectives on civil and human rights, cross-sector networking, and speeches to inspire action. Register for tickets, tables, sponsorship or ads at icdhr. org. Contributions provide college scholarships for deserving youth in Illinois.

Drama in the Flock!

‘Birds of North America’ A Red Orchid Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of Anna Ouyang Moench’s father-daughter drama “Birds of North America,” January 15 – February 22 at 1531 N. Wells St. John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. "Birds of North America" takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding. Tickets are $33-$44 for previews (Jan 15-24) and $55 regular season at aredorchidtheatre.org or by calling (312) 943-8722.

Love Gone Astray!

‘The Dance of Death’ In the high stone tower of an isolated naval fortress, Alice and Edgar are about to celebrate 25 years of wedded bliss—if decades of resentment, recrimination and mutual sabotage count as bliss. But when an alluring visitor arrives, the delicate balance of their tedious arrangement falls off its axis, cracks growing into canyons. In Conor McPherson’s wicked take on Strindberg’s masterclass in marital warfare, a twisted love triangle waltzes off the edge of a cliff, plunging us all into the deep. Playing January 29 - March 22 at Steppenwolf, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets start at $54.50 at steppenwolf.org

A Kinetic Experience!

‘Freedom From and Freedom To’ Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience and are grouped by chance in this exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Each performance features a different group of performers who fuse diverse artistic practices to create unique and fleeting worlds. January 30 & 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Steppenwolf, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets are $23 at steppenwolf.org

Puppets Gone Wild!

‘The Uncanny Attic: Chapters E-H’ The camp macabre world of Edward Gorey returns to Steppenwolf, 1650 N. Halsted St., in the second installment of this absurdist dark comedy anthology told through puppetry, clowning, dance, live music, song, animation and an unhealthy dose of death. January 15-17 at 7:30 p.m.; and a January 17 3 p.m. matinee. Tickets are $43 at steppenwolf.org

Local Visionaries!

Nova Linea Musica Trio: ‘Threads of Melodic Silence’ Nova Linea Musica (NLM), an innovative local chamber music series and new-music incubator, presents “Threads of Melodic Silence” on Wednesday, January 21, 6:30 p.m., at Guarneri Hall, 11 E. Adams St. With a focus on music by Chicago’s own talents, this concert features an NLM-commissioned world premiere by NLM Composer in Residence, Chicago’s own Stacy Garrop (pictured), as well as a world premiere by Alexander Hersh. Tickets are $40 at novalineamusica.org

Dancing Trio!

‘Fluidity’ “Fluidity” follows the story of three dancers, stuck in detention, who share more in common than is first apparent. This piece synthesizes various genres of dance in an immersive experience featuring an electric trio of performers. Playing January 23 & 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Steppenwolf, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets are $28 at steppenwolf.org

A Legendary Choreographer!

The Martha Graham Dance Company The Auditorium, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive, presents the Martha Graham Dance Company in a one-night-only performance Saturday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. The oldest dance company in the U.S. and one of the most influential modern dance companies of all time, the Martha Graham Dance Company is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this season. Last in Chicago in 2007, the company will perform a program that juxtaposes works by its founder, the legendary American choreographer, alongside new work. Tickets start at $35 at www.auditoriumtheatre.org or 312-341-2300.

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Vendors John Hagan, Clinton Scott, and A. Allen chat about the world of sports.

New Year's Resolutions

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John: We are talking about New Year’s resolutions for Chicago sports teams. Our special guest is Clinton Scott. We are sorry that Russell Adams is under the weather, but we hope for a speedy recovery. Allen: The Chicago Bears: I want them to keep doing a good job, do well in the playoffs and get as close to the Super Bowl as possible. As far as the White Sox, they need a new owner. They got first pick for the draft, but they got to do more, they gotta build a team. It’s not going to be easy, but they can do it. Clinton: The Chicago Bears make it into the playoffs because their offensive line has improved, their running game is strong, their passing game is their defense, their defensive backs play a very tight game and and I’m hoping they make the Super

Bowl. The White Sox: I am looking for them to put some young players on the team and to start playing hard baseball. The Chicago Bulls, the coach seems like a good coach, but he’s not winning, so maybe they need a new coach. The Chicago Cubs: just keep playing baseball and one minute they will beat the Dodgers. John: Funny comment about my Dodgers, Clinton. The Bears have done really well for the 2025 season, but they can always do better, especially having a dominant edge rusher – someone who can make the life of the opposing quarterback miserable. The Cubs need a No. 1 starter, some bullpen help as well as a designated hitter, assuming Kyle Tucker does not sign with the Cubs and departs for free agency. The White Sox, they probably will need new management committed to winning.

Outside of that, they need a veteran starting pitcher, some young arms that will help solidify the starting rotation and outfield help. As far as the Chicago Bulls, it’s iffy if they will be buyers or sellers. If they are going to buy by the trade deadline, their New Year’s resolution should be to get a defensive player. The Blackhawks are expected to be sellers, but I think they should be buyers because they have the possibility of making the playoffs. And, the Chicago Sky need a guard and a wing to help Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. Allen: I agree the Chicago Bears should continue to play a good game and maintain. I knew when they came back to Chicago on December 20, they would take Green Bay. Green Bay had the home field advantage December 7, but we shouldn’t have given up that interception to them,

we should have gone for the first down. And for the Chicago Sky, they need more publicity, they have been the world champion. Clinton: I want to push the issue with the Blackhawks. They need to play much harder. They give up too many goals, and they need a new coach. John: The Chicago team with the best chance to win in the near future is the Chicago Bears. The Cubs, the way the Dodgers are going, I don’t think anyone is going to catch them, not even the hated New York Yankees. Any comments, suggestions or topic ideas for the SportsWise team? Email StreetWise Editor Suzanne Hanney at suzannestreetwise@yahoo.com

The 'threat' of MLK by Suzanne Hanney

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. photographed by Jack Lewis Hiller, November 1960 (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery photo).

FBI surveillance files on Dr. Martin Luther King released two years early by executive order of President Donald Trump tell us more about government intrigue than about the minister and civil rights leader, according to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, King’s family, and biographer Jonathan Eig.

Signed shortly after his inauguration, Trump’s Jan. 23, 2025 executive order declassified records on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and King. More than 230,000 pages of digitized records on King were released by the National Archives on July 21. https://www.archives.gov/research/mlk

Compiled from 1963 to 1968, the files do not give more information on the alleged conspiracy around King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Martin said. However, they provide a “teachable moment for students and the public…an opportunity to see how government agencies were trying to weaponize information.” That should create skepticism, he said.

COVER STORY

Using nonviolent action inspired by Mohandas Gandhi and Christian teachings, King facilitated desegregation of Blacks and whites in the U.S. His powerful oratory and campaigns pressured the government to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Obtained through illegal wiretaps on King’s home phone and the offices of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as bugged hotel rooms when he traveled, the newly unsealed documents have yielded nothing surprising, according to the King Institute, which holds a comprehensive collection of King’s correspondence, speeches and unpublished manuscripts. It is likely very little new information will be uncovered, said Lerone A. Martin, director of the Institute and professor of religious studies and of African and African American studies at Stanford.

FBI was trying to stop civil rights work One thing is clear from this and earlier records: the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover was trying to stop King’s work, Martin said. A memo to then-Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy blames King for violence during the Memphis march in 1968, shortly before his death. The memo also says that the government should try to stop him before the Poor People’s March planned for Washington, D.C., which did proceed after King's death. Soliciting help from elected officials, journalists, and clergy for its counterintelligence program, “You do see the FBI trying to create a reality around King and then trying to make moves against him based on the reality they’re creating,” Martin said. In a July 21, 2025 statement on the files’ release, Dr. Bernice A. King and Martin Luther King III said, “During our father’s lifetime, he was relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover though the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). “The intent of the government’s COINTELPRO campaign was not only to monitor, but to discredit, dismantle and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the broader American Civil Rights Movement.” The brother’s and sister’s statement was carried on the website of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Bernice King is CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Losing her father a week after her fifth birthday, she and her siblings were told by their mother, Coretta Scott King, that their father “was assassinated while seeking to make the world a better place” and then by repeated assaults on his character, she wrote on vanityfair.com and the King Center website.

J. Edgar Hoover ca. 1961 (Marion S. Trikosko photo).

The King family believes that James Earl Ray was not King’s real assassin “but a scapegoat used by a large and powerful network, one that included informants whom the FBI recruited from within my father’s camp,” Bernice King wrote. King’s death was investigated by the FBI in 1968, by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s and again by the Department of Justice in the 1990s. Finally, her family brought a wrongful death suit in civil court in 1999. The four-week civil suit, with testimony from 70 witnesses, corroborated her family’s long-held belief that “government entities conspired in the assassination.” Ray was a white supporter of segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace and an escapee from the Missouri State Penitentiary the year before. Within a few days of confessing to the assassination, Ray argued that a man he knew only as “Raoul” had told him to buy the gun and rent the room across the street from the Lorraine Motel where King was shot, according to History.com. Following an international manhunt, Ray was captured in June at Heathrow Airport in London with two fake Canadian passports, bound for Rhodesia, (the present-day Zimbabwe) a former African state ruled by a white minority. The owner of a restaurant below Ray’s rented room had said in an HBO televised mock trial in 1993 that he had been part of the conspiracy and Ray had been set up to take the fall. Others involved were Memphis police officers, a Mafia member and “Raoul.” The restaurant owner did not testify at the civil court suit because there were no criminal charges.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd outside the Justice Department, June 14, 1963 (Warren K. Leffler photo).

FBI acknowledges King’s power “The civil trial provided answers and began to help me answer my childhood question: Why?” Bernice King wrote. “According to then-FBI Assistant Director William Sullivan, my father was ‘the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.’” She wrote that the government’s intent to assassinate King’s character through the covert intelligence program was heightened by the 1962 launch of Operation Breadbasket, which boycotted industries that underemployed Blacks. There was also King’s ability to enthrall 250,000 Americans at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963.

James Earl Ray mug shot (public domain).

“This determination was further intensified by his public opposition to the Vietnam War, which he resoundingly conveyed in his speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” Delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated, the speech “included Daddy’s admonishment that the United States government was ‘the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.’ When the government’s attempt at character assassination failed, another option prevailed: He was ultimately assassinated.” FBI surveillance of King began in 1963 during the Cold War, because of the John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration’s concern that people influencing King might belong to the Communist Party of the USA, Jonathan Eig told CNN. Eig is the author of “King: A Life” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2023), a winner of the 2024 Pulitizer Prize. (StreetWise: Jan. 10-16, 2024 Vol. 32 No. 02) Requested by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and approved by JFK’s brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, the surveillance failed to turn up evidence that King was a communist, Eig said. King had read Karl Marx during Christmas break from theology school. He reasoned that capitalism created a gap between rich and poor, but communism was secular, and “as a Christian I believe there is a creative personal power in the universe which is the ground and essence of all reality,” Eig wrote. In other words, King believed in God.

FBI Assistant Director William C. Sullivan (public domain).

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Useful ‘dirt’ The FBI tapes did yield useful dirt on the married Dr. King in the form of multiple liaisons with women in hotel rooms that were bugged during his travels. Can we believe the content of these documents? CNN asked. “I think we can be fairly confident when we read transcripts of phone calls that those are accurate,” Eig responded. People close to King, like Andrew Young and Bayard Rustin, have read transcripts of their phone calls and said they were correct. But in at least one instance, an FBI agent purportedly interviewed one of the women in descriptive detail worthy of a dime novel. Handwritten notes in the margins of memos are more worthy of skepticism than transcriptions, Eig said, because many agents thought they would gain favor by smearing King. “That’s one reason why the tapes would be interesting — because it might help us better understand just how reliable the FBI’s reporting is.” Accurate or not, the FBI’s release of King’s phone calls and personal life to members of the media affected coverage of him. “Even if they didn’t write about his sex life, they were aware of it and I think that it tarnished his image. The press treated him much more skeptically,” Eig said.

It also divided members of the Civil Rights Movement, because King’s reputation was under attack. “By 1966, something like two-thirds of all Americans in a Gallup survey said they disapproved of Martin Luther King, so it was making his job much more difficult. It was making him feel lost and at times sad that no one seemed to be listening to him anymore, and it damaged the Civil Rights Movement. So, I think the FBI’s campaign against King was largely very effective.” As a side note, a scan of the pages on the website shows Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) was stung by the surveillance he authorized. In 1968 RFK was a Democratic candidate for U.S. president, and a memo calls for reining him in before the Oregon primary. Shortly afterward, syndicated newspaper columnists Jack Anderson and Drew Pearson wrote that RFK had authorized the counterintelligence against King (likely using information leaked to them). RFK’s winning streak was broken in the Oregon primary soon after that. Days later, RFK came back to win the California primary – and was assassinated shortly after his victory speech. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute (Photo provided by U.S. News & World Report collection at the Library of Congress). The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a crowd estimated at 70,000 at a civil rights rally in Chicago's Soldier Field, in 1966. (Declan Haun photo).

King as ‘a founding father’

Is the release a ‘distraction?’

Eig told CNN that King’s personal affairs should not affect his importance. “Plenty of our founding fathers, the signers of the Constitution, had affairs. Some of them had affairs with women who they enslaved.”

As a presidential candidate, Trump promised to unseal the 1960s assassination records of the three legendary leaders in the name of transparency. However, the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University says Trump’s interest may be just “an alternative headline as he tries to mollify supporters angry over his administration’s handling of records concerning the sex-trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.”

During a book tour at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago in September 2023, Eig said that King himself was a founding father. The reason was that he continued to fulfill the promises of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights that “'all men are created equal' – but which hadn’t borne out that way for hundreds of years." Using only Christian love, nonviolence and faith in humankind, King’s 13-year career brought the nation closer than it had ever been to “reckoning with the reality of having treated people as property and secondary citizens,” Eig wrote in “King: A Life.” “That he failed to fully achieve his goal should not diminish his heroism any more than the failure of the original founding fathers diminishes theirs.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. (Lawndale Christian Development Corp.photo). Dr. Martin Luther King circa 1963 (Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer, courtesy of the Library of Congress).

Bernice King would agree. These are “difficult days,” she wrote, “when my father’s very work to create a more inclusive society and economy is threatened with closures and removals of important history, programs, initiatives, information, and services designed to advance genuine equality.” She also cited the cut-off of aid to impoverished nations, unchecked voter suppression in the U.S. and government layoffs in the name of efficiency. She called for a revival of the “revolutionary, love-centered movement” fostered by her parents and “other courageous, hopeful people.” Nonviolence is still needed to defeat what King called the “triple evils” of racism, militarism and poverty, she said. “We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.” www.streetwise.org

StreetWise participant Clarence publishes new book on racism in ame by Lena Dibenedetto

Clarence Bryant last wrote for StreetWise about South Side house museums (StreetWise Vol 33, No. 5 Feb. 19-March 4, 2025). He recently self-published a book, “Equal Roots, Systemic Racism in America,” and was interviewed by Lena Dibenedetto. Lena: What sparked the idea for you to write it? Clarence: What kind of sparked everything was, racism still exists. Even more so slavery. I think it is more modernized, but what really had me go this direction, and write a book, was because I believe that people need to know the facts of our history. And slavery and racism go hand in hand. I wanted to give people some insight about what's going on in our world, and unequal roots is just that. This is informative, it’s direct. And I don't hold any punches. I've been writing for years, you know. I started writing poetry when I was younger, I didn't think that I would be writing a book, but I was inspired to do so after speaking with someone that I know. They told me that I was a great speaker, as well as a great writer, that I should put some energy into doing that. Wow. You are definitely very direct. You write beautifully. You write in the beginning that this book was born from a deep unrest. How does this unrest look daily and what challenges do you face due to it?

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Yeah. Everybody, especially these days, is going through something. We're all facing our challenges, and from the standpoint of racism and the unequal rules of our history, the unrest is dealing with racism. Especially with my family being from Mississippi. We have experienced racism, prejudice, as well as injustice. So, it's important for people to not allow these things to just settle in their spirit. You know what I mean? Stay there without addressing them. Because what I've learned is that when we bottle up those things, they come out in ways that are unproductive. And could be possibly even dangerous. It's important for us to express and to talk about these things. Face the facts. We have to stop lying to ourselves. Experiencing racism from police officers, it’s accelerating. Facing the judicial system in any way as a Black person. It's unfortunate that when it comes to our judicial system, we don't have the same power or leverage. The unrest is emotional as well as spiritual, and people need to find it within themselves. This book is self-published, what was your path to publication like? Well, when I was trying to figure out whether or not I wanted to go with a publishing company, I found that just the financial aspect of it was a barrier. And given the fact that I'm not a rich guy it was just a lot to take on from that standpoint. So, I decided to do self-publishing because it was cheaper to do. It is not necessarily what’s easier to do. This is my first book, so it was challenging. The process and steps to self-publishing with a 1st book was overwhelming at times. I remember I sat at the computer for hours trying to figure it out. I got frustrated, had to step away,

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then come back another day. It’ll be a slow process establishing myself as an author, but this is just the beginning. You have a point in the book where you talk about the importance of representation and Black media. What’s your favorite piece of Black media currently? So, here's the thing. I don't have any. And here's why. For years, Black media has been represented in a way that has been derogatory, disrespectful, and just plain out untruth. So, in essence, we have painted this picture of Black media, to be distasteful. You know, it's all about drugs and games and violence, so we are perpetrating this image of Black people in general being dehumanized. And I don't think that we look at the overall history of Black media and what they have been doing for 100s of years, and if you look at it, you look at movies with Black people, it's always almost the same thing: prostitution, drugs being sold, or used in whatever ways, and oversexualizing Black people. I love Black people. In terms of Black media, we are not done. It's not really being highlighted in a way where it's given the ultimate respect. What can white people learn from Black people in terms of community and resilience? Wow, that's a good question. Ultimately, that’s the history of being abused and being able to muscle through that. With what we and our ancestors experienced, back in slavery, and even now, in modern days, where we're being shut down by the police. But I think the biggest issue that we're facing is that a lot of that anger that we have within ourselves comes from our history. We have been through so much, and yet we're still here, trying to be peaceful, trying to show love, trying to be respectful. We have love for ourselves. You can find Clarence's book on Amazon.com or scan the QR code above. www.streetwise.org

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