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Home » racism

Tag: racism

Posted inNews & Politics

Losing count

by Emeline Posner February 3, 2021August 18, 2021

For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.

Posted inNews & Politics

Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’

by Maya Dukmasova December 2, 2020August 18, 2021

Current and former employees of Pangea describe racism, segregation, and a “toxic” workplace.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘We’re not asking for any more than what we are already deserved’

by Adam M. Rhodes November 25, 2020October 14, 2021

Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Treat racism as a risk factor to deal with health inequity at the community level

by Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman November 20, 2020August 18, 2021

Here’s how to make it happen.

Posted inNews & Politics

This land is my land

by Evan F. Moore July 16, 2020August 18, 2021

For generations, my family has owned a piece of untold Black history in Boley, Oklahoma. This year, I finally got to see it.

Posted inArts & Culture

The myth of housing mobility

by Maya Dukmasova July 16, 2020August 18, 2021

The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.

Posted inNews & Politics

Will COVID-19 force us to right racial health disparities?

by Maya Dukmasova May 13, 2020August 18, 2021

A conversation about what the pandemic has made intolerable

Posted inCity Life

They thought he was an ‘agitator’

by Jeff Nichols August 28, 2019August 18, 2021

Franklin A. Denison was no rabble-rouser, but the Bureau of Investigation said he sparked the 1919 race riot.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Is having a ‘thing for Black guys’ racist?

by Dan Savage July 3, 2019August 18, 2021

Dan advises a liberal dude worried about the implications of his GF’s self-professed “thing for Black guys,” and more.

Posted inArts & Culture

A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans

by KT Hawbaker May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago Shakespeare’s staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Firestorm pulls its punches in its examination of white privilege

by Jack Helbig April 10, 2019August 18, 2021

Our hero a racist? No sirree!

Posted inArts & Culture

Lit recs for the reader exhausted by the weight of history

by Aimee Levitt December 3, 2018August 18, 2021

The current book obsessions of Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt and essayist and Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘Am I just bipolar and kinky? Are the two related somehow?’

by Dan Savage November 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Advice on avoiding a hypersexual state. Plus: Embracing hyperfeminine presentation, and more.

Posted inArts & Culture

Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio

by Jack Helbig November 22, 2018August 18, 2021

The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.

Posted inArts & Culture

Alexis J. Roston fully inhabits Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

by Sheri Flanders September 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Congo Square Theatre’s revival paints a vibrant portrait of Billie Holiday.

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