The Chicago Humanities Festival launches its new spring festival, a weekend of discussions on the subject of style.
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Pulitzer winner Margo Jefferson explores the peculiarities of black privilege in Chicago in the memoir Negroland
Technically, Margo Jefferson grew up in the south-side neighborhoods of Park Manor and Hyde Park. But metaphorically she comes from Negroland—her name for a small segment of black America “where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty.” Her father was the head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital; her mother graduated from […]
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.