On criticism, inclusion—and exclusion—at one of the most diverse Sundance festivals in history.
Tag: diversity
Posted inNews & Politics
Edwin Eisendrath discusses the offensive Reader cover, staff diversity, and the paper’s future
Sun-Times Media CEO says, “We’re stabilizing.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Walter Benn Michaels on how liberals still love diversity and ignore inequality
A conversation with UIC professor Walter Benn Michaels, whose controversial 2006 polemic The Trouble with Diversity now looks prescient.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”
Posted inBest of Chicago
Chicago’s diversity is legible on its signs
Signs speak to the character and composition of neighborhoods and communities.
Posted inArts & Culture
How Chicago theater artists are diversifying the city’s stages
Efforts are underway to make Chicago’s theater less uniformly white, thin, able-bodied, and gender-conforming.
Posted inNews & Politics
The fight to preserve a model public housing project
Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.
Posted inNews & Politics
Are Chicago’s elite private schools as diverse as they claim to be?
The socioeconomic makeup of the city’s elite private schools is a public policy issue—or should be one.
Posted inNews & Politics
This week’s Chicagoan: Jack Herman, scoutmaster
Jack Herman, scoutmaster: “That’s why you want to keep these kids in the program, because it gives them some stability.”
Posted inNews & Politics
Trying to make separate equal
“By one means or another, our schools will be integrated,” federal judge Julius Hoffman said of Chicago schools in 1962. It was wishful thinking.
Posted inBlogs
The wisdom of diverse crowds
Hard evidence that it’s better to hire a diverse group of people than only the best experts you can find.