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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 17, 2021
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Tough times for the machine
The old Democratic bosses have been taking a beating.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 9, 2021
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Revolution vs. reform: Judas and the Black Messiah
With knockout performances comes an examination of the need for revolutionaries when pushing for real change.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 10, 2020
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From soldier to worker
Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 15, 2020
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Sensei Barnett
Richard Barnett fought the machine and taught a rookie reporter about Chicago politics.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2018
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The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill is at war with American exceptionalism and imperialism
A Q&A with the Chicago-born investigative reporter, who returns to town October 9 for a live taping of his political podcast Intercepted.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 21, 2018
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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."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2018
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 1, 2017
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A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day
An exhibit at the Westside Center for Justice demonstrates how little things have changed when it comes to racism and the surveillance state.
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2016
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2016
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Two panels on Chicago police misconduct found the same problems 43 years apart
The findings of the Police Accountability Task Force are depressingly familiar.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2015
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Black Panthers doc echoes the past in this present moment
From Fred Hampton to Laquan McDonald, it's easy to feel as if nothing has changed.
- Film, Movie Review Jul 30, 2014
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A Chicago street gang tries to go straight in Lord Thing
DeWitt Beall's 1970 documentary recalls the doomed reform of the Conservative Vice Lords.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
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My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb
The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2009
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
"The Murder of Fred Hampton" screens Wednesday 12/2 as part of "The Black Panther Party in Retrospect" conference at the University of Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Nov 5, 2009
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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
- News & Politics, Our Town Jan 25, 1990
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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.
- News & Politics, Miscellany Nov 30, 1989
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The Neutralization of Fred Hampton
