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Posted inMusic

Mother Nature ascend a queenly throne

by Alejandro Hernandez June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

The hip-hop duo’s latest EP, Nature’s World, dropped June 10.

Posted inNews & Politics

Here’s what Black voters should pay attention to in the midterms

by Tonia Hill and The TRiiBE April 28, 2022June 23, 2022

In the past, politicians have co-opted progressive language from organizers in the Black liberation movement for their campaigns, hoping to win the Black vote.

Posted inArts & Culture

Class is in session with The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

by Darshita Jain April 27, 2021August 18, 2021

Felicia Rose Chavez’s book challenges how educational institutions support people of color—and provides a blueprint to be better.

Posted inNews & Politics

Inside the fight for racial equity at SAIC

by Kerry Cardoza January 6, 2021November 4, 2021

Current and former students, staff, and faculty at the top-ranked art school describe microaggressions, discrimination, and a failed anti-racism campaign.

Posted inCity Life

Ode to a Chicago Public School

by Nina Li Coomes September 2, 2020August 18, 2021

The lessons learned in CPS go beyond what’s taught in the classroom.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘This is a moment of empowerment’: An oral history of the People’s Grab-N-Go

by Leor Galil September 2, 2020August 18, 2021

A retrospective look at the weekly Black-led food distribution program outside Burke Elementary.

Posted inArts & Culture

Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs

by Arionne Nettles August 31, 2020August 18, 2021

The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.

Posted inCity Life

Rerouting the supply scramble

by Salem Collo-Julin September 4, 2019August 18, 2021

Schoolteachers need love too.

Posted inNews & Politics

U.S. Department of Education wants to stop ‘student aid fraud scheme’ where parents give up custody through dubious guardianships

by Jodi S. Cohen, Duaa Eldeib and Melissa Sanchez August 2, 2019August 18, 2021

One day after our reporting, the department’s inspector general said it wants to close financial aid loopholes.

Posted inArts & Culture

Pipeline examines the opposite of white privilege

by Kerry Reid February 13, 2019August 18, 2021

For some kids, the path to prison starts with just one bad day or one microaggression too far.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Nilaja Sun’s No Child …  a teacher and her students discover the magic of theater

by Jack Helbig September 12, 2018August 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the characters lack the depth to make that transformation visible.

Posted inNews & Politics

CPS closed Stewart Elementary School in 2013. Now it’s a luxury apartment building.

by Matt Harvey August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

A former student goes back to visit.

Posted inArts & Culture

The roving live talk show The Hoodoisie makes radical politics entertaining and accessible

by Brianna Wellen August 8, 2018August 18, 2021

If the world can be saved, host Ricardo Gamboa believes it will be through open dialogue and dirty jokes.

Posted inBlogs

Springfield’s ongoing feuding with CPS could stop funding for other Illinois schools if a deal isn’t reached soon, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, an audit shows that Chicago’s pension crisis has gotten worse but the city has more cash.

Posted inArts & Culture

Photo book Too Fly Not to Fly celebrates #blackgirlmagic and #blackboyjoy

by Briana McLean and Desmond Owusu April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

With Too Fly Not To Fly, educators Briana McLean and Desmond Owusu have created a learning tool that also captures the joy of black childhood in Chicago.

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