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- Film, Movie Feature Apr 1, 2021
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Documenting the front lines of social change
Capturing social justice movements and amplifying voices of change are at the core of Soft Cage Films.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2020
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Showcasing gig posters in a year short on gigs
The Reader got creative to find ways to keep uplifting Chicago artists in 2020.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Dec 9, 2020
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Adam Gogola, front man of Blind Adam & the Federal League
“When you look around your community, it's easy to help the people around you. And once you start doing that, it's easier to understand how we can effect change.”
- Music, Music Feature Sep 17, 2020
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Femdot pauses his rap career to help feed Chicago
Run through his nonprofit, Delacreme Scholars, the Scholars Slide By has delivered groceries to hundreds of people in need this summer.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 2, 2020
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'This is a moment of empowerment': An oral history of the People's Grab-N-Go
A retrospective look at the weekly Black-led food distribution program outside Burke Elementary.
- News & Politics, News Aug 6, 2020
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The Chicago police union is trying to put its members on the state’s torture inquiry commission
Two bills introduced in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.
- Music, Music Review Jul 20, 2020
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Chicago music mastermind Nnamdï reflects our absurd world with the gorgeously strange Krazy Karl
- Music, Music Review Jul 16, 2020
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Sault’s Untitled (Black Is) is the soundtrack for the 2020 revolution
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 30, 2020
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Most of the people arrested at the protests were Black
An analysis of 2,172 detainments raises questions about CPD claims of equitable policing practices.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 30, 2020
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Cops in schools
For years the schools of Chicago have been pawns in the mayor’s budget games.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jun 24, 2020
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Winds of change hit the Poetry Foundation and the Field Museum
Two legacy institutions wrestle with issues of diversity and economic justice.
- Music, Music Review Jun 19, 2020
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Run the Jewels reflect 2020’s unrest with the sociopolitical Molotov cocktail of RTJ4
- Music, Music Review Jun 19, 2020
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Minneapolis-via-Chicago rapper Longshot takes his protests against police brutality to the mike
- Music, Music Review Jun 19, 2020
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Englewood’s F.A.B.L.E. brings his charming warmth and vigor to Chicago’s bustling hip-hop ecosystem
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 18, 2020
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Inside the 19-hour occupation of the University of Chicago Police headquarters
"I’m fighting for my future, I’m fighting for my safety, I’m fighting for the people who come after me."
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Jun 17, 2020
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Let the people decide
The major parties benefit too much from our rigged system to want reform.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 16, 2020
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Grave robbers
Hey, MAGA, stop using Dr. King to justify police brutality.
- 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?
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jun 10, 2020
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A tribute to Big Floyd on the (fantasy) gig poster of the week
This week’s featured fantasy gig poster was created by local illustrator and designer Teshika Silver.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 9, 2020
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Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives
Plus: Femdot’s nonprofit begins free food deliveries on the south and west sides, and Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 9, 2020
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Telling it like it is
Are you listening, NFL, ESPN, and the Bears?
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 5, 2020
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The front lines of police brutality
Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 3, 2020
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This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists
Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.
- News & Politics, Essay Jun 3, 2020
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Essays as group therapy
How are Black writers coping? We’re chanting, fact-checking history, and envisioning a tiny future.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 2, 2020
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Thank you, Sarah Cooper
At times like this, it sort of helps to bash Donald Trump.