Back in 2012, playwright and solo artist Dael Orlandersmith performed Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. In a series of monologues drawn from interviews with several subjects, Orlandersmith anatomized cycles of abuse and toxic masculinity through the voices of a variety of people (a preteen sex worker, a social worker) from […]
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Journalism and Police Accountability: Perspectives from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Torture Justice Center
Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins, former Reader reporter John Conroy, Aislinn Pulley, co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Mark Clements, an activist and police torture survivor discussed the role of journalism in uncovering police violence.
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The Chicago police union is trying to put its members on the state’s torture inquiry commission
Two bills introduced in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.
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Lots of questions about police accountability, few satisfying answers from IPRA director
Sharon Fairley spoke with the Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven—and a room of Chicagoans sick of waiting for police reform.
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Black Lives Matter activists arrested during protest of police chiefs conference
Activists called for more community input and an end to police brutality.