Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on abolition and organizing in her new book.
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Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020
With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, Chicago’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.
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An Unapologetic love letter to Chicago’s Black women activists
The documentary takes audiences to the front lines with millennial women leading the city’s Movement for Black Lives.
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‘Everybody has to be included for us to truly be free’
Vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes and the Chicago Freedom Ensemble lend their marching music—and the community they’ve built with it—to the fight for Black lives.
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Good Fuck are really putting out
Good Fuck put in overtime on a flood of new releases, songwriter Devin Davis opens his sound studio remotely, and more.
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Chicago music mastermind Nnamdï reflects our absurd world with the gorgeously strange Krazy Karl
Our country has always privileged the powerful—a group that, historically and presently, has consisted almost exclusively of straight white men. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve only intensified their avaricious push to feed the rest of us into the grinder in order to prop up a broken, inhumane economic system. It can feel […]
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Dehd focus their sound and their hearts on the new Flower of Devotion
Chicago trio Dehd add studio polish and hard life lessons to their fusion of postpunk and garage folk.
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R&B singer Ifeanyi Elswith makes a star turn on the new Everything Festyle
R&B singer Ifeanyi Elswith makes a star turn on the new Everything Festyle, hardcore trio Warrior Tribes turn a posthumous record into a benefit, and more.
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Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?
Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.
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Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives
Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives, Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue, and more.
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Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests
As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
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Community gardens beautify urban space, but some seek to transform urban society
Community organizers connect politics with plant care.
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Can #AnybodyButMitts win in the 37th Ward?
Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.
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A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
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Black Caucus members eject protesters from fund-raiser, call themselves ‘gangsters’
“You ain’t seen no gangsters like this city’s aldermen.”