Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based rapper Open Mike Eagle is a seemingly inexhaustible font of laugh-out-loud one-liners, and he delivers as always on his latest album, Component System With the Auto Reverse (on his own Auto Reverse label). You need to be careful drinking anything while listening to it, lest uncomfortable snorking ensue when the rapper gets […]
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Losing count
For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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The myth of housing mobility
The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
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Will COVID-19 force us to right racial health disparities?
A conversation about what the pandemic has made intolerable
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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.
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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.