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- City Life, Public Service Announcement Jan 15, 2021
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A day of service
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
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Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2016
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Rahm Emanuel’s plan for a healthy, segregated Chicago
A report by the mayor’s public health department offers 200 “actionable strategies” to diminish health inequities. Reducing segregation isn’t one of them.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2015
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Author Dave Hoekstra on being a white writer trying to document the black experience
For his new book The People's Place, the former Sun-Times staffer and Reader contributor combined soul food and civil rights.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 31, 2015
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How a Chicago priest became an unwitting civil rights figure
Former Catholic priest Richard Morrisroe reflects on his friend and fellow activist Jonathan Daniels, who was gunned down by a segregationist in Alabama 50 years ago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2015
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Don't go to the library on MLK Day
All Chicago Public Libraries will be closed January 19; is that a good way to honor Martin Luther King?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2015
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The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2015
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Hey, Mayor Rahm—North Lawndale is good enough for a presidential library
Apparently the city thinks North Lawndale is OK for an illegal garbage dump, but not a presidential library.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2014
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What Pilsen taught Chuy Garcia
Between his years in a little village in Mexico and Little Village in Chicago, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia learned a lot about race and ethnicity in Pilsen.
- Film, Movie Review Dec 10, 2014
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Chris Rock comes into his own as a filmmaker
Top Five is a tale of love, race, sex, and celebrity.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2014
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Coming soon: Free revivals of a long-unavailable documentary about Martin Luther King Jr.
King: A Filmed Record screens Sunday at Black Cinema House and the following Thursday at Block Cinema
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2013
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Obama speaks up on inequality
The president's speech was rich in platitudes, but at least many were aimed in one direction.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2012
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Endangering the lives of children: the ceaseless train of tragedy in segregated neighborhoods
Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 2, 2011
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Freedom Rider Thomas Armstrong on segregation, progress, and the trauma of war
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2010
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Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee ripped the cover off urban America for my 13-year-old self with his 1989 tour de force. He speaks and signs copies of his photo memoir "Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing" 12/24 at Barbara's Bookstore at Maxwell Street, er, University Village.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2010
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Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon
The documentary "Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon," about the Afrobeat pioneer, screens Thursday in the Black World Cinema Series.
- News & Politics, Feature May 6, 2010
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How Howard Got His History Back
A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2009
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One last thing on the Nobel Prize
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2009
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Shocker in Gloomtown*: In defense of open, vile comment threads
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2009
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King, Chicago, and memory
Look back on anger.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2008
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Alderman Ed "Polonius" Burke
Alderman Ed Burke offers great thoughts from great thinkers as the council spends millions to build condominiums.
