The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
Tag: redlining
Posted inArts & Culture
Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial
This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.
Posted inFilm
The Windy City International Film Festival wants to introduce Chicago moviemakers to the world
When an actor and director couldn’t find a place to screen their movie here, they started their own festival.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago corruption for sightseers: Walking tours show seedy underbelly of the city’s politics
“I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics,” journalist Paul Dailing muses.
Posted inArts & Culture
Redlined tells story of one of the last white families in West Garfield Park
Linda Gartz’s memoir also offers some insight into the blindness of neighborhood residents to racial discrimination and disinvestment.
Posted inNews & Politics
The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago
Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.
Posted inBlogs
It’s time, finally, to discuss reparations for African-Americans
“We may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. “But we stand to discover much about ourselves in such a discussion.”