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A 1970 one-panel cartoon from Charles Johnson.
Posted inArts & Culture

Drawing beyond the margins

by Aaron Cohen June 25, 2021August 18, 2021

Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Posted inArts & Culture

Black Creativity thrives in its 50th year

by Arionne Nettles January 28, 2020August 18, 2021

The legacy of the Museum of Science and Industry exhibition is built on cultural representation and innovation.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful

by Brianna Wellen October 1, 2019August 18, 2021

This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.

Posted inArts & Culture

What did a 1930s ballet say about cultural appropriation in modernist Chicago?

by Liesl Olson March 28, 2019August 18, 2021

La Guiablesse was imagined by and starring a white woman who choreographed the piece for her city’s most talented black dancers.

Posted inArts & Culture

The maverick behind the camera

by Dave Hoekstra August 22, 2018August 18, 2021

African-American photojournalist Dorrell Creightney and his work have faded into memory—until now.

Posted inBlogs

Vlogger ZackTV devoted his life to making Chicago’s fractious rap scene into one community

by Leor Galil June 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Zack Stoner, who was shot to death, documented every unseen corner of Chicago hip-hop.

Posted inBlogs

Majority of south- and west-siders feel Chicago media ‘too negative’ about their neighborhoods

by Maya Dukmasova January 22, 2018August 18, 2021

But according to the results of a new survey, Chicagoans are willing to donate to news organizations and even get involved in coverage.

Posted inArts & Culture

Black video game characters finally get their due in Dateline: Bronzeville

by Ryan Smith October 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Artist Philip Mallory Jones previews his ambitious project depicting life in Bronzeville circa 1940.

Posted inBlogs

Bit Bash, Comedy Nerd Fest, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Sara Cohen August 12, 2016August 18, 2021

Bud Billiken Parade, Northalsted Market Days, and more happenings from August 12-14.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sat 8/9: Brain Frame finale, United Nations, and Medium Cool

by Kerry Cardoza August 9, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, August 9

Cubs fans line up for tickets at the Wrigley Field box office before a September 1945 game with the Saint Louis Cardinals. The following month, the north-siders played in the World Series—their last appearance, to date.
Posted inNews & Politics

Unfriendly confines: Did racial discrimination start the Cubs’ slide?

by Steve Bogira March 24, 2014August 18, 2021

P.K. Wrigley spurned black players at a pivotal time—did his actions start the Cubs’ slide?

Timuel Black was a 44-year-old teacher in Chicago when, in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. asked him to help organize the Chicago contingent for the March on Washington.
Posted inNews & Politics

Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice

by Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.

J. Mayo Williams, Paramount's only Chicago talent scout
Posted inMusic

Of Paramount’s importance

by James Hughes April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Record Store Day is a good day to remember that legendary early blues-and-jazz label Paramount was a subsidiary of a furniture company.

Posted inBlogs

Jail break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center

by Steve Bogira December 18, 2012August 19, 2021

For the first time in 27 years there’s been an escape from the jail in the South Loop

Posted inBlogs

Back where the Defender began

by Michael Miner November 4, 2011August 19, 2021

The Chicago Defender returns to its roots as a society paper

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