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Film

An Unapologetic love letter to Chicago’s Black women activists

The documentary takes audiences to the front lines with millennial women leading the city’s Movement for Black Lives.

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.

Community organizers connect politics with plant care.

Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.

After a City Council setback, the #NoCopAcademy campaign reflects on strategy—and aldermen on both sides of the issue respond.

Activists call on city to redirect $95 million toward education of kids, not cops.

Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

Authorities have conducted surveillance on activists in recent years but won’t say why.