Friday 11/14 – Thursday 11/20 NOVEMBER 14 FRIDAY The legacy of the covert U.S.-backed removals of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 […]
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NOVEMBER 7 FRIDAY “I can’t put on a resume that I’ve been raped, beaten, and sexually abused by men,” says former prostitute Brenda Myers. “You can’t get a job with […]
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In Print: going crazy for chop-socky
Brian Thomas watched three movies a day last year. As he worked 14-hour days to complete the guide to Asian action films he was writing, the West Rogers Park apartment […]
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Friday 11/7 – Thursday 11/13 NOVEMBER 7 FRIDAY “I can’t put on a resume that I’ve been raped, beaten, and sexually abused by men,” says former prostitute Brenda Myers. “You […]
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OCTOBER 24 FRIDAY Blacks and whites have been victims in almost equal proportions of the 500,000-odd murders that have taken place in the U.S. since 1977. But according to a […]
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Friday 10/24 – Thursday 10/30 OCTOBER 24 FRIDAY Blacks and whites have been victims in almost equal proportions of the 500,000-odd murders that have taken place in the U.S. since […]
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OCTOBER 17 FRIDAY After smallpox nearly wiped out several Haida Indian villages in Canada at the turn of the last century, anthropologists sold the victims’ remains and other artifacts to […]
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Friday 10/17 – Thursday 10/23 OCTOBER 17 FRIDAY After smallpox nearly wiped out several Haida Indian villages in Canada at the turn of the last century, anthropologists sold the victims’ […]
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OCTOBER 10 FRIDAY “As a storyteller, I strive to give a voice to the voiceless. As an artist, I seek to give a perspective from a different part of life’s […]
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Friday 10/10 – Thursday 10/16 OCTOBER 10 FRIDAY “As a storyteller, I strive to give a voice to the voiceless. As an artist, I seek to give a perspective from […]
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On Film: Chicago’s gentleman serial killer makes it to the big screen
As a kid on the northwest side, John Borowski made monster masks and couldn’t get enough of films like Psycho and Jaws. When he was 13 he bought an eight-millimeter […]
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OCTOBER 3 FRIDAY For over a decade beginning in the early 1950s, the U.S. State Department sponsored goodwill tours featuring African-American athletes throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. “The U.S. […]
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Friday 10/3 – Thursday 10/9 OCTOBER 3 FRIDAY For over a decade beginning in the early 1950s, the U.S. State Department sponsored goodwill tours featuring African-American athletes throughout Africa, Asia, […]
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SEPTEMBER 26 FRIDAY “The invasion and occupation of Iraq is viewed by the people of the Middle East as an act of international terrorism, and as such it can only […]
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Friday 9/26 – Thursday 10/2 SEPTEMBER 26 FRIDAY “The invasion and occupation of Iraq is viewed by the people of the Middle East as an act of international terrorism, and […]