A conversation about what the pandemic has made intolerable
Tag: racial discrimination
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Red Velvet is a singular anti-achievement
Lolita Chakrabarti’s biodrama about the first black actor to play Othello on the London stage gets the story wrong for all the wrong reasons.
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Columbia College prof Michael Fry says he quit after being used and disrespected
High-profile Columbia College professor Michael Fry walked away from his tenured job in the school’s television department last month, blaming racial discrimination.
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Chicago police try to rebuild trust, improve image with social media strategy, and other news
Also, CPS stops using discriminatory job screening process following a WBEZ investigation.
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A look back at racial bias in Cook County jury selection
With the Supreme Court debating racial discrimination on juries, we look back at a Reader cover story from 2005 that examined Cook County’s own problem with the issue.
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Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled
“We’ve got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have,” Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?