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Home » diversity

Tag: diversity

Posted inFilm

Reviewing while Black at Sundance

by Sheri Flanders February 5, 2020August 18, 2021

On criticism, inclusion—and exclusion—at one of the most diverse Sundance festivals in history.

Posted inNews & Politics

Edwin Eisendrath discusses the offensive Reader cover, staff diversity, and the paper’s future

by Adeshina Emmanuel February 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Sun-Times Media CEO says, “We’re stabilizing.”

Posted inArts & Culture

Walter Benn Michaels on how liberals still love diversity and ignore inequality

by Ryan Smith November 23, 2016August 18, 2021

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

by Derrick Clifton October 24, 2016August 18, 2021

Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago’s diversity is legible on its signs

by Darryl Holliday June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Signs speak to the character and composition of neighborhoods and communities.

Posted inArts & Culture

How Chicago theater artists are diversifying the city’s stages

by Zac Thompson March 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Efforts are underway to make Chicago’s theater less uniformly white, thin, able-bodied, and gender-conforming.

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

Roughly 13 of every 100 students at the Latin School of Chicago receive financial aid. Only a portion of those get full scholarships.
Posted inNews & Politics

Are Chicago’s elite private schools as diverse as they claim to be?

by Steve Bogira February 26, 2014August 18, 2021

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

by Anne Ford February 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Jack Herman, scoutmaster: “That’s why you want to keep these kids in the program, because it gives them some stability.”

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Neighborhood for Diversity

by Chicago Reader June 19, 2013August 19, 2021

Rogers Park

Like many Chicago Public Schools, Melody elementary, in West Garfield Park, is racially segregated and struggling with problems stemming from the poverty of its students.
Posted inNews & Politics

Trying to make separate equal

by Steve Bogira June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

“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

Should Emanuel move to Englewood?

by Steve Bogira October 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Rahm’s desegregation plan

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Bus Route for Glimpsing a Palimpsest of the City

by Kate Schmidt June 20, 2012August 19, 2021

#81 Lawrence

Posted inBlogs

Why I love my hood

by Kate Schmidt November 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Quotidian life in Rogers Park

Posted inBlogs

The wisdom of diverse crowds

by Harold Henderson July 5, 2007August 19, 2021

Hard evidence that it’s better to hire a diverse group of people than only the best experts you can find.

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