For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
Tag: racism
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Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’
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’
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
Here’s how to make it happen.
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This land is my land
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
The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
Posted inNews & Politics
Will COVID-19 force us to right racial health disparities?
A conversation about what the pandemic has made intolerable
Posted inCity Life
They thought he was an ‘agitator’
Franklin A. Denison was no rabble-rouser, but the Bureau of Investigation said he sparked the 1919 race riot.
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Is having a ‘thing for Black guys’ racist?
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
Chicago Shakespeare’s staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
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The Firestorm pulls its punches in its examination of white privilege
Our hero a racist? No sirree!
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Lit recs for the reader exhausted by the weight of history
The current book obsessions of Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt and essayist and Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck.
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‘Am I just bipolar and kinky? Are the two related somehow?’
Advice on avoiding a hypersexual state. Plus: Embracing hyperfeminine presentation, and more.
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Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio
The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.
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Alexis J. Roston fully inhabits Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Congo Square Theatre’s revival paints a vibrant portrait of Billie Holiday.