A new exhibit at the American Writers Museum featres prominent and lesser-known Black authors, poets, and journalists.
Tag: civil rights
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Rapper Ric Wilson pours generations of activism into “Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P”
Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.
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Losing count
For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
Posted inArts & Culture
Nina Simone: Four Women could use a lot more of her songs
Christina Ham’s play can’t decide whether it’s a jukebox musical revue or a dramatic stage bio.
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Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
“If Laquan McDonald hadn’t been killed and they’d elected to charge him with a crime, we would still be waiting to see that video.”
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
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Court Theatre’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is tasteful, digestible—and unnecessary
A new adaptation ignores the realities of Jim Crow America in favor of spreading its message of love.
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The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago
Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.
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Kyle Abraham and Abraham.in.Motion tackle civil rights in the time of Freddie Gray and Laquan McDonald
“When the Wolves Came In,” a trio of dances inspired by the classic protest album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, comes to the MCA this weekend.
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Trump ushers in a new age of deceit
Even by Chicago’s political standards, his lies are the worst.
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How can grassroots musicians fight the Trump beast?
Adele Nicholas of Axons and Impossible Colors is also a self-employed civil rights lawyer—and she’s releasing a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund.
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Will a Trump DOJ quash Chicago police reforms?
What a Jeff Sessions-lead Department of Justice could mean for the ongoing probe into CPD
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A federal indictment of a Chicago cop adds a new pressure point for police reform
The U.S. attorney’s suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.
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Chicago activists shut down Dan Ryan Expressway during police brutality protest
Around 400 people gathered to mourn the fatal shootings this week of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.