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Steve Carr

CTL-P-1188 · Person

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Combined Graph record U-03247 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1188. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Director of Next Friday

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Director of Next Friday (2000). The stored claim 'Creator of Next Friday' is corrected on the AFI Catalog entry (fetched in full by the wave coordinator 2026-10-17), which credits direction to Steve Carr and writing to Ice Cube, based on characters created by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh.

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Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLens
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