The park no longer is a symbol of bigotry, but it isn’t a success story either.
Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
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A visual history of the black vote
In this election year, we look back at the history of black voter mobilization in Chicago and in the south.
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Remembering Dr. King’s impact on Chicago on the anniversary of his assassination
The Reader and Blvck Vrchives founder/curator Renata Cherlise collaborated on this reflection on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on Chicago.
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Chicago cops purposely blocked audio on dash-cam videos, Homan Square scandal gets even more interesting, and other Chicago news
Also, Mavis Staples enlists interesting new collaborators, and the media wonders whether Governor Rauner has a state e-mail address.
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What it means to #ReclaimMLK
Black Youth Project 100 and other groups want to reassert the “radical ideas” of the slain civil rights leader.
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Medill resigned. Daley didn’t. And Rahm?
Mayoral resignations are rare in Chicago. That hasn’t deterred protesters and politicians looking to change the course of history.
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Zoom in: River North
Adam Brooks’s Freedom Wall has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron in River North for nearly 20 years.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 1/27: Myrlie Evers-Williams, Weyes Blood, and “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propoganda”
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, January 27
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The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in
A new film project tries to capture the life of physician and activist Quentin Young.
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Still climbing toward The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, Martin Luther King Jr. faces his own Gethsemane.
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, is still a potent indictment.
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Fifty years after “I Have a Dream”: Time for a real War on Poverty
The richest nation on earth could afford to win a war on poverty, Lyndon Johnson asserted nearly 50 years ago.
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AfriCOBRA when it was poised to strike
“AfriCOBRA: Prologue” looks at the prehistory of a famous south-side arts movement.
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Friday night: take pictures for Tamms inmates
An art project for inmates in Illinois’s only supermax prison coincides with a new exhibition at the School of the Art Institute