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Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful

by Brianna Wellen October 1, 2019August 18, 2021

This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.

Posted inBlogs

Black Panther gets a fun fresh start in a new series about the world’s biggest superhero

by Luca Cimarusti March 8, 2018August 18, 2021

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Evan Narcisse put a modern twist on the comic in Rise of the Black Panther.

Posted inBlogs

Theater’s biggest summer drama—Pass Over

by Michael Miner February 5, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago has debated Pass Over all summer, without getting to the merits of the play itself

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 inNews & Politics

The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago

by Rebecca Burns March 1, 2017August 18, 2021

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates didn’t come here to give you any answers

by Maya Dukmasova February 2, 2017August 18, 2021

The writer and public intellectual fielded questions from a packed audience in Evanston Tuesday night, but said he had few answers to offer about journalism in the age of Trump.

Posted inArts & Culture

All the books we liked in 2015

by Aimee Levitt December 22, 2015August 18, 2021

And some theories about why we enjoyed them

Posted inArts & Culture

Thomas Bradshaw’s Fulfillment dramatizes what Ta-Nehisi Coates warns us about

by Tony Adler November 18, 2015August 18, 2021

But an indifferent staging lessens the impact of this world premiere at American Theater Company.

Posted inBlogs

Will McCarthy and other law enforcement leaders really get tough on mass incarceration?

by Steve Bogira October 21, 2015August 18, 2021

Reducing our nation’s abhorrent incarceration rate will require a lot more than easing up on petty drug offenders.

Posted inArts & Culture

Why black family violence deserves more attention

by Steve Bogira October 21, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s a tough subject to write about, but Ta-Nehisi Coates is more than capable.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Humanities Fest 2015 lineup includes Elvis Costello, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Salman Rushdie

by Aimee Levitt August 18, 2015August 18, 2021

We’re already looking into cloning technology so we can see everything.

Posted inBlogs

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me grapples with ugly truths about race in America

by Annie Howard July 21, 2015August 18, 2021

The Atlantic essayist wonders if he can save his son from his country.

Posted inBlogs

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about ‘The Case for Reparations’ in Chicago

by Lucy Wang April 2, 2015August 18, 2021

“In America, we have difficulty with acknowledging the fact that where we are in a particular moment is irrevocably tied to our past.”

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

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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