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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 24, 2019
Little-known Chicago blues-rock wizard Zach Prather has found his crowd in Europe

Thanks in part to a long partnership with the late Cash McCall, Prather has played with the likes of Willie Dixon, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Etta James.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Zach Prather, Cash McCall, funk, soul, blues, R&B, Willie Dixon, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Etta James, Cook County, Released, the Tribe, Kings of Soul, James Monroe 2, Vicious Circle, the Who, Small Faces, Curtom, Black Panthers, Minnie Riperton, The Stanley Behrens/Willie Dixon Project, Luther Allison, Never My Love, Luke Gasser Band, Mick Jagger, Aardvark Records, We, Everland Music

Film, Movie Feature Jul 10, 2019
Remembering Agnès Varda with a festival of her short films

“You think of Agnès Varda as this woman going places that not a lot of filmmakers were going at that time.”
- By Cody Corrall
- Tags: Movie Feature, Agnès Varda, French New Wave, short films, Kathleen Sachs, Block Cinema, Block Museum, Filmfront, Consulate General of France in Chicago, Michael Metzger, Malia Haines-Stewart, Résponse des Femmes, Du Côté de la Côte, L’opéra-mouffe, Ulysse, Uncle Yanco, Elsa la Rose, Plaisir D’amour en Iran, Salut les Cubains, Black Panthers

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 11, 2019
The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis

Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Danny Solis, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Black Panthers, Ambrosio Medrano, Pilsen, TIFs, Lincoln Yards, Ed Burke, Roberto Caldero, Sun-Times, Viagra, Chicago City Council, zoning committee, UNO, United Neighborhood Organization

Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2019
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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies

It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!
- By Aimee Levitt and Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Film, Flopcorn, Music, Elvis Presley, Blue Hawaii, Viva Las Vegas, Change of Habit, Hawaii, tourism, Angela Lansbury, Ann-Margret, Mary Tyler Moore, nuns, Las Vegas, He's Your Uncle Not Your Dad, Speedway, Bill Bixby, Nancy Sinatra, IRS, Black Panthers, The Sound of Music, Video

News & Politics, Feature Sep 21, 2018
Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul

"We're not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we're Puerto Ricans."
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Feature, Young Lords 50th Anniversary Symposium, Young Lords, DePaul University, Lincoln Park, Richard J. Daley, Y.L.O., José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, Puerto Rico, El Grito de Lares, gentrification, McCormick Theological Seminary, Puerto Rican parade, Puerto Rican self-determination, Jacqueline Lazú, United Methodist Church, Reverend Bruce Johnson, Rainbow Coalition, Black Panthers, Young Patriots, Fred Hampton, Elaine Brown, Luis Tony Báez, Juan González, Grand Valley State University, Center for Latino Research, La Clark, La Madison, Carl Sandburg Village, Chicago 21 Plan, John Bentacur, Humboldt Park

Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2018
Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?

At this past weekend's "anti-bait-truck" shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Criminal Justice, Neighborhoods, News, Politics, Poverty, Race, History, Music, Hip-Hop, Vic Mensa, Black Panthers, Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Oakland, Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, Angela Davis, Laquan McDonald, Eddie Johnson, IPRA, socialism, communism, Tom Wolfe, Elbert Howard, 1968 DNC

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 6, 2017
Highlights and lowlights from the eighth annual Chicago Fringe Festival

Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton: A Revolutionary Love Story is among the standouts at this northwest-side showcase for "the untried and the weird."
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Chicago Fringe Festival, Jefferson Park, Dandy Darkly's Myth Mouth!, Evil Women, No Exit, #Divahs, Exceptions to Reality, William Pack, magician, sleight of hand, card tricks, Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton: A Revolutionary Love Story, Black Panthers, Gangster Disciples, Steven Long, Steve Berglund, Man, 12 Years a Slave, Mark Toland, Mark Toland: Mind Reader, Narratives of Achromatopsia, Iris Sowlat, achromatopsia, The One Without Words, Prakriti: A History of the Present, Underneath the Lintel, Pat O'Brien, Mr. Dewey, Saved by the Bell, Glen Berger, When That Song Is About You, Julie Soroko, Kinnari Vora, Preeti Veerlapati, Ishta, Work to Do, Andy Monson, Emilie Modaff‏

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2017
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A Q&A with filmmaker Jamal Joseph on Chapter & Verse and the prison industrial complex

Joseph's first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America's broken prison system.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Race, Poverty, Jamal Joseph, Chapter & Verse, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Donald Trump, capitalism, poverty, mass incarceration, school-to-prison pipeline, prison industrial complex, Harlem, Daniel Beaty, Fred Hampton, Young Lords, Tupac, Afeni Shakur, Tupac, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Michelle Alexander, Ava DuVernay, 13th. Michelle Obama, Ramarley Graham, black is beautiful, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2016
Video
A federal indictment of a Chicago cop adds a new pressure point for police reform

The U.S. attorney's suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Criminal Justice, Marco Proano, Chicago Police Department, Niko Husband, Department of Justice, DOJ, U.S. Attorney’s Office, police brutality, police violence, police misconduct, Flint Taylor, People’s Law Office, Fred Hampton, Black Panthers, police torture, Jon Burge, civil rights, Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2014
After gay marriage, whither exquisite anguish and romantic tragedy?

Is the price of progress a loss of artistic inspiration?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: LGBT, Media, Film, News, Cole Porter, Linda Thomas Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic, New York magazine, De-Lovely, Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein, Hershey Felder, Black Panthers, Ron Dorfman, Ken Ilio

Film, Movie Review Aug 21, 2013
Video
The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Macy Gray, Shadowboxer, Precious, Vittorio De Sica, Two Women, The Paperboy, Vivienne Westwood, Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Section 8, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, The Butler, Eugene Allen, Forest Whitaker, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, David Oyelowo, Freedom Bus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Panthers, Oakland, Forrest Gump, Oprah Winfrey, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Robin Williams, Steven Boone, Terrence Howard, Elijah Kelley, Barack Obama, Video

Music, Music Feature Feb 20, 2013
Tim'm West and the masculine mystique

In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.
- By B. David Zarley
- Tags: Music Feature, Center on Halsted, black gay identity, HIV, MCs, AIDS, black gay men, identity, New School, Stanford University, LGBTQ advocacy, black nationalism, ACT UP, Black Panthers, pan-Africanism, Juba Kalamka, Philip Atiba Goff, D/DC, Lightskindid Philosopher, spoken-word, Tim'm West, poetry, LGBTQ youth, Deep Dickollective, hip-hop, Mykki Blanco, Frank Ocean, Hannah Said, race, sexuality, Boystown, homophobia, south side, west side, Little Rock, Arkansas, Duke University, Duke's Enlightened Nubians, masculinity, Tongues Untied, free-style, Hieroglyphics, De La Soul, Pharcyde, BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo, Common, rap disses, rappers, Hip-Hop on the Down Low, gay hip-hop, Freaky Bois, Roy Kinsey, Holiday Peace Out

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2012
Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Sundown in K-Town, documentary films, Kartemquin Films, Better Boys Foundation, Facets Multimedia, Gordon Quinn, Tom Palazzolo, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, American Revolution 2, And This Is Free, Young Lords, Black Panthers

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 16, 2012
Bad cop, bad cop

Chicago police get ugly in My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, John Conroy, police torture, torture, Jon Burge, TimeLine Theatre, P.J. Powers, police torture, Nick Bowling, Ora Jones, Dog & Pony Theatre Company, Democratic National Convention, 1968, Devon de Mayo, Stephen Ptacek, Black Panthers

Music, Three Beats Dec 1, 2011
Video
Three Beats: Andrew Bird and Ian Schneller transplant Sonic Arboretum

Plus: ICE talks nonjazz improvisation, and Chicago hip-hop meets a Swedish doc about the American black power movement
- By Peter Margasak and Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Three Beats, International Contemporary Ensemble, George Lewis, Peter Evans, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Ian Schneller, Specimen Projects, Andrew Bird, Shrimp Boat, Sonic Arboretum, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Black Panthers, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Nov 5, 2009
Fall Books Special: The Night Fred Hampton Died

An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader's death and its aftermath by People's Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas
- By Jeffrey Haas
- Tags: Lit Feature, Fred Hampton, Black Panthers, Vietnam, People's Law Office, Mark Clark, Cook County State's Attorney, PLO, Bernardine Dohrn, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, Proviso East, Merritt College, Bobby Seale, NAACP Youth Chapter, Bill Ivory, Key Agitator Index, Bobby Rush, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Breakfast for Children Program, Doc Satchel, Black P. Stone Nation, Blackstone Rangers, Deborah Johnson, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2009
Video
Before Shaft

The Block Museum kicks off its Gordon Parks photo exhibit with a Thursday screening of his film "The Learning Tree," the first modern studio film by a black director.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Northwestern University, Black Panthers, black power, Gordon Parks, The Learning Tree, American Gothic, Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, Life Magazine, Block Museum, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, Katherine Cleaver, David Parks, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2009
Alk of the town

Chicago Film Archives presents a series on Chicago filmmaker Howard Alk.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Sun Ra, Chicago Blues, Movies, Second City, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Police Department, Murray Lerner, Bob Dylan, Gordon Quinn, Facets Cinematheque, Maxwell Street, Chicago Film Archives, Paul Sills, Toronto, Black Panthers, Howard Alk, music movies, Janis Joplin, Renaldo and Clara, Eat the Document, Bob Lee, Black Panther Party, A Portrait of Howard Alk, Bernie Sahlins, Bernard Sahlins, Albert Grossman, Ed Bland, The Cry of Jazz, Mike Shea, And This Is Free, Newport folk festival, Rolling Thunder Revue, American Revolution 2, 1968 Democratic convention, The Murder of Fred Hampton, The Seasons Change, Luxman Baul's Movie, Jones Cullinan, Mike Gray, David Rothberg, My Friend Vince, political documentaries, filmmakers

Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2008
Video
Historical reenactment

Tomorrow's outrage today.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Election day, Black Panthers, Video

News & Politics, Feature May 22, 1997
Eyes on the Prize

Over more than two decades, Haki and Safisha Madhubuti have proved that African-centered education can amount to more than a black version of history. It can also be a springboard to a bright future.
- By Gary Rivlin
- Tags: Feature, Haki R. Madhubuti, Safisha Madhubuti, Third World Press, Gwendolyn Brooks, New Concept Development Center, African-centered education, Crane High School, African-American literature, Kennedy-King College, Black Power movement, Don't Cry, Scream, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentricism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, Mary Lefkowitz, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Disuniting of America, From Plan to Planet, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Mwalimu Shujaa, Ebonics, Aban Aya Youth Project, Salim Muwakkil, In These Times, Nation of Islam, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?, Nguzo Saba, Ron Karenga, Kwanzaa

News & Politics, Our Town Jan 25, 1990
The Last Hours of William O'Neal

He was the informant who gave the FBI the floor plan of Fred Hampton's apartment. Last week he ran onto the Eisenhower Expressway and killed himself.
- By Michael Ervin
- Tags: Our Town, William O'Neal, Ben Heard, Mark Clark, Fred Hampton, Edward Hanrahan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, state's attorney's office, Black Panthers, Black Panther Party, William Hart, federal witness protection program

News & Politics, Miscellany Nov 30, 1989
The Neutralization of Fred Hampton
- By Robert McClory
- Tags: Miscellany, Feature, Fred Hampton, David Hilliard, National Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

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Thanks in part to a long partnership with the late Cash McCall, Prather has played with the likes of Willie Dixon, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Etta James.

“You think of Agnès Varda as this woman going places that not a lot of filmmakers were going at that time.”

Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.

It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!

"We're not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we're Puerto Ricans."

At this past weekend's "anti-bait-truck" shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.

Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton: A Revolutionary Love Story is among the standouts at this northwest-side showcase for "the untried and the weird."

Joseph's first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America's broken prison system.

The U.S. attorney's suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.

Is the price of progress a loss of artistic inspiration?

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.

In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale

Chicago police get ugly in My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching

Plus: ICE talks nonjazz improvisation, and Chicago hip-hop meets a Swedish doc about the American black power movement

An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader's death and its aftermath by People's Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas

The Block Museum kicks off its Gordon Parks photo exhibit with a Thursday screening of his film "The Learning Tree," the first modern studio film by a black director.

Chicago Film Archives presents a series on Chicago filmmaker Howard Alk.

Tomorrow's outrage today.

Over more than two decades, Haki and Safisha Madhubuti have proved that African-centered education can amount to more than a black version of history. It can also be a springboard to a bright future.

He was the informant who gave the FBI the floor plan of Fred Hampton's apartment. Last week he ran onto the Eisenhower Expressway and killed himself.

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