racial inequality Archives

Firebrand’s Caroline, or Change revels in tension, both racial and domestic

Firebrand’s production features fearless, fantastic singers.

Also, tickets to the June 3 U2 concert at Soldier Field are the most in-demand in the nation on Stubhub.

Also, there have been more than 700 murders in the city so far this year.

If the city’s white unemployment rate were nearly triple the black rate, would the Tribune say fiscal policy was the only issue that mattered?

In Chicago, the poverty rate for black kids is more than five times the rate for white kids. And the gap is growing.

The African-American child poverty rate is severely high and climbing, but neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it

A new study examines just how early Asian-American children start outperforming their peers, and ponders why it happens.