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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Mar 17, 2021
Rapper Ric Wilson pours generations of activism into “Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P”

Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Ric Wilson, Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P, They Call Me Disco, Terrace Martin, Marsha P. Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Mariame Kaba, abolition, civil rights, Crista Noel, Women’s All Points Bulletin, protest, Best of Chicago 2020

News & Politics, Feature Jun 5, 2020
The front lines of police brutality

Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.
- By Brooke Hummer
- Tags: Feature, Police, cops, brutality, protest, abolition, george floyd, black lives matter, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, CPD, Chicago police department, coronavirus

News & Politics, News Jun 1, 2020
Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Department, CPD, police violence, protests, George Floyd protests, police abolition, abolition, prison and police abolition, abolitionist organizing, Chicago police abolitionists, mutual aid, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Mariame Kaba, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Ariel Atkins, Good Kids Mad City, Kofi Ademola, Equity and Transformation, Richard Wallace, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, police riot, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Chicago Public Schools, Assata’s Daughters, Page May

News & Politics, News May 29, 2020
The Reader guide to police abolition

Our reporting on envisioning and organizing a city less reliant on cops to keep us safe
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Department, CPD, police abolition, abolition, prison and police abolition, abolitionist organizing, Chicago police abolitionists, mutual aid, Laquan McDonald, George Floyd, Minneapolis

News & Politics, News Nov 27, 2019
Strength on the street

Masked activists take on social services titan Heartland Alliance over facilities for migrant children.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Heartland Alliance, immigration, immigration detention, migrant detention, migrant children, Heartland Human Care Services, U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, Immigrantion and Customs Enforcement, ICE, Little Village Solidarity Network, Rogers Park Solidarity Network, Rising Tide Chicago, Free Heartland Kids, Swissotel, Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink, Eileen Mitchell, AT&T Illinois, Rozalinda Borcilă, Evelyn Diaz, Mary Meg McCarthy, National Immigrant Justice Center, deportation, immigration detention, abolition

News & Politics, Feature Mar 13, 2019
Community gardens beautify urban space, but some seek to transform urban society

Community organizers connect politics with plant care.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Urban farming, urban farms, community gardens, community gardeners, 360 Nation, W.D. Floyd, Sumner Elementary School, West Garfield Park, North Lawndale, environmental justice, soil remediation, food justice, Vivi Moreno, Little Village, Village Environmental Justice Organization, LVEJO, Semillas de Justicia community garden, Semillas de Justicia, Page May, Assata’s Daughters, abolition, black feminism, Alderman Willie Cochran, Willie Cochran, 20th Ward, Black Earth Youth Farm, R.T.W. Veterans Center, Washington Park, Woodlawn, Vernon Park Gardens, Chicago Eco House, Joi Hampton, Alderman Michael Scott Jr., 24th Ward, University of Chicago, Neighbor Space, Healthy Food Hub, Winifred Curran, DePaul University, gentrification, eco-gentrification

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 17, 2018
Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Lit Feature, Book Swap, Mariame Kaba, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, All About Love: New Visions, All About Love, Bell Hooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Ann Russo, Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power, Feminist Accountability, accountability, #MeToo, Me Too, #MeToo movement, gender violence, prison industrial complex, PIC, abolition, prison abolition, feminism, therapy, love, self-love, relationships, motherhood, daughterhood, violence

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
'Lincoln's Undying Words' shows how a president changed his mind about slavery

A Chicago History Museum exhibit examines Lincoln's speeches for clues about how he changed from political moderate to the Great Emancipator.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, History, Politics, Lincoln's Undying Words, Chicago History Museum, Abraham Lincoln, Olivia Mahoney, Civil War, slavery, abolition, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, Gettysburg Address

Arts & Culture, Book Review Aug 14, 2012
Spare them our good intentions

Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Book Review, imperialism, altruism, empire, invasions, Richard Huzzey, abolition, Victorian England, racism, separate but equal, indentured servitude

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2007
The past isn't dead, it isn't even past

What do gay marriage and the right not to be a slave have in common?
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Politics, Gay Marriage, Slavery, History, Abolition

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Rapper Ric Wilson pours generations of activism into “Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P”

Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.

The front lines of police brutality

Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.

Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.

The Reader guide to police abolition

Our reporting on envisioning and organizing a city less reliant on cops to keep us safe

Strength on the street

Masked activists take on social services titan Heartland Alliance over facilities for migrant children.

Community gardens beautify urban space, but some seek to transform urban society

Community organizers connect politics with plant care.

Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.

'Lincoln's Undying Words' shows how a president changed his mind about slavery

A Chicago History Museum exhibit examines Lincoln's speeches for clues about how he changed from political moderate to the Great Emancipator.

Spare them our good intentions

Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism

The past isn't dead, it isn't even past

What do gay marriage and the right not to be a slave have in common?

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Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.

Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.

Our reporting on envisioning and organizing a city less reliant on cops to keep us safe

Masked activists take on social services titan Heartland Alliance over facilities for migrant children.

Community organizers connect politics with plant care.

The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.

A Chicago History Museum exhibit examines Lincoln's speeches for clues about how he changed from political moderate to the Great Emancipator.

Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism

What do gay marriage and the right not to be a slave have in common?

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