In Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba ask organizers to retire their inner cynic and imagine what could exist instead. Out this month through Haymarket Books, Let This Radicalize You is filled with lessons from Hayes and Kaba, both longtime organizers and movement educators. The […]
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Get on the bus
The Uvalde school massacre put a somber hue on my mood going into 57 Blocks, Free Street Theater’s latest ensemble-created piece that takes a sharp look at public education. But by the end of the evening, which starts out at Free Street’s Pulaski Park home in Wicker Park, takes audiences on a bus down Ashland […]
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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.
Posted inCity Life
Celebrating Black achievements
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
Posted inArts & Culture
‘Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone’
Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on abolition and organizing in her new book.
Posted inNews & Politics
Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests
As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic
The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.
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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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Is it time to reimagine justice and accountability for sexual misconduct?
Abolitionist educator Mariame Kaba explores how survivors of sexual harassment and violence can find justice outside the legal system, and how perpetrators can embrace accountability.
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Mariame Kaba, modern abolitionist, on feminism that fights state violence
Kaba spoke at DePaul Thursday night on feminism and movement building under Trump.
Posted inNews & Politics
Police in Chicago Public Schools operate with no special training and little oversight
The Chicago Police Department instructs its officers to treat working in schools like any other beat—but is it?
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Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.
Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.