Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education
Author Archives: Annie Howard
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Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A preview of four talks this weekend
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Redlined tells story of one of the last white families in West Garfield Park
Linda Gartz’s memoir also offers some insight into the blindness of neighborhood residents to racial discrimination and disinvestment.
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Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate
A new book succeeds by avoiding simple solutions to complicated problems.
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The Chicago Architecture Foundation creates a graphic novel for the city’s future
No Small Plans looks to the past to examine the present and imagine a future metropolis.
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A.O. Scott’s criticism colloquium comes to Seminary Co-op
The New York Times writer discusses his latest book, Better Living Through Criticism.
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How women, gays, and people of color are reshaping evangelical churches
Deborah Jian Lee’s Rescuing Jesus is filled with revelations about the future of American Christianity, particularly how former outsiders are reshaping evangelicalism.
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A new memoir traces the many incarnations of Elvis Costello
Even without the sneer, his aim has always been true.
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How Chicago became ‘hog butcher for the world’
Chicago’s stockyard doors may have shuttered more than 40 years ago, but their impact on the city still reverberates.
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John Hodgman talks about bringing his ‘white privilege mortality comedy’ to Chicago
How middle age and self-awareness are affecting the comedian’s approach on his new stand-up tour, “Vacationland.”
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Stieg Larsson is gone, but Millennium lives on
The Girl in the Spider’s Web, a new sequel by David Lagercrantz, is a worthy successor.
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A new book examines the lasting impact of Emmett Till’s murder
Why a 60-year-old crime still reverberates in the American consciousness
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Pitchfork Festival class of 2015 returns to Chicago
Remember Pitchfork? The three-day blowout is just a few months past, but some of the festival’s best acts are already returning to Chicago. As with the three stages at Pitchfork, October 8 presents fans with a choice between three festival alums: piano balladeer Tobias Jesso Jr. at the Empty Bottle, beat master DJ Jamie XX […]
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Twenty-seven years after Straight Outta Compton, can political hip-hop reach white listeners?
The success of recent releases by Run the Jewels and Kendrick Lamar suggests that, commercially speaking, the tide may turn for political-activist hip-hop.
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Does ‘objective’ reporting distort the truth?
Recent instances of social injustice—like Eric Garner’s death—highlight the pitfalls of blind objectivity in the media.