The documentary takes audiences to the front lines with millennial women leading the city’s Movement for Black Lives.
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Alderman who joked about the ‘gangsters’ on the City Council to plead guilty to corruption charges
Hmm, maybe 20th Ward alderman Willie Cochran really wasn’t joking about being a gangster after all.
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Genre-blurring singer-songwriter Tasha offers comfort to young black women on ‘Lullaby’
With her newest single, Tasha Viets-VanLear proves herself a perfect match for Saturday’s community-focused Winter Block Party at Metro.
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The Trump resistance is building solidarity across movements
Groups are collaborating across race and color lines to oppose the president’s executive orders.
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The election is over, and here’s what you can do about it [UPDATED]
Some suggestions for donating your time, money, and energy.
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After saying #ByeAnita, Chicago’s young black organizers continue calls for justice
As today, the four-year anniversary of Rekia Boyd’s death, neared, activists shift attention back to the fate of her killer, officer Dante Servin.
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What it means to #ReclaimMLK
Black Youth Project 100 and other groups want to reassert the “radical ideas” of the slain civil rights leader.
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Black Youth Project 100 suspends a Chicago leader after sexual assault allegation
The activist group is addressing sexual assault in black social movements in a new way.
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Chicago activists explain why black space matters
By shunning interviews and barring nonblack people from public demonstrations, Black Lives Matter activists hope to shut down the spectacle of black death.