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Tag: slavery

Posted inFilm

Harriet is the heroic biopic Harriet Tubman deserves

by Janaya Greene November 7, 2019August 18, 2021

The fast-paced feature is a satisfying blend of history and action.

Posted inArts & Culture

At the Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith wants to reshape the narrative of black life in America

by Tyra Nicole Triche August 17, 2018August 18, 2021

The culmination of his project will be a reconstruction of a slave ship in the museum’s basement.

Posted inArts & Culture

Plantation! uses a sitcom sensibility to explore the case for reparations

by Dan Jakes March 6, 2018August 18, 2021

The Lookingglass world premiere strives to be a very special episode.

Posted inBlogs

Shootings and homicides in Englewood on pace to reach record lows in 2017, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd November 16, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, local preservationists want landmark designation for Emmett Till’s Woodlawn home.

Posted inBlogs

Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains

by Michael Miner August 31, 2017August 18, 2021

Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.

Posted inArts & Culture

Hair, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now

by Chicago Reader August 10, 2017August 18, 2021

“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

Definition Theatre’s An Octoroon boldly subverts, in white-, red-, and blackface

by Dan Jakes August 2, 2017August 18, 2021

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects a wildly popular—and wildly racist—19th-century melodrama.

Posted inBlogs

‘Lincoln’s Undying Words’ shows how a president changed his mind about slavery

by Aimee Levitt April 6, 2016August 18, 2021

A Chicago History Museum exhibit examines Lincoln’s speeches for clues about how he changed from political moderate to the Great Emancipator.

Posted inBlogs

Twelve years later, a nightmare becomes a book

by Michael Miner February 2, 2016August 18, 2021

One Day’s Tale is a novel that took Lois Barliant 12 years to write and publish.

Posted inBlogs

Texas abolishes (the history of) slavery

by Michael Miner October 7, 2015August 18, 2021

On Texas’s slave-free new geography book

Posted inBlogs

South Carolina is more educated about its history than you might think

by Michael Miner July 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Did public educatiion in South Carolina lead to the vote to furl the battle flag?

Posted inBlogs

Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled

by Steve Bogira June 3, 2015August 18, 2021

“We’ve got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have,” Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.

Posted inBlogs

Could reparations for African-Americans help reduce violence?

by Mick Dumke August 6, 2014August 18, 2021

A conversation with veteran reparations activist and political organizer Conrad Worrill.

Posted inBlogs

Let’s get realistic about America’s Founding Fathers

by Michael Miner July 7, 2014August 18, 2021

Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and the other Founding Fathers—a great group of guys or what?

Posted inBlogs

On the case for reparations—and the National Review’s response

by Michael Miner May 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Those owed reparations are long dead, huh?

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