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- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Mar 17, 2021
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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.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 3, 2021
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Losing count
For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 7, 2019
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Nina Simone: Four Women could use a lot more of her songs
Christina Ham's play can't decide whether it's a jukebox musical revue or a dramatic stage bio.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2018
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Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
"If Laquan McDonald hadn't been killed and they'd elected to charge him with a crime, we would still be waiting to see that video."
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2018
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 27, 2018
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Court Theatre’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is tasteful, digestible—and unnecessary
A new adaptation ignores the realities of Jim Crow America in favor of spreading its message of love.
- News & Politics, Feature Mar 1, 2017
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The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago
Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 16, 2017
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Trump ushers in a new age of deceit
Even by Chicago’s political standards, his lies are the worst.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 14, 2016
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How can grassroots musicians fight the Trump beast?
Adele Nicholas of Axons and Impossible Colors is also a self-employed civil rights lawyer—and she’s releasing a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2016
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Will a Trump DOJ quash Chicago police reforms?
What a Jeff Sessions-lead Department of Justice could mean for the ongoing probe into CPD
- 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 Jul 8, 2016
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Chicago activists shut down Dan Ryan Expressway during police brutality protest
Around 400 people gathered to mourn the fatal shootings this week of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2016
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 12, 2016
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A contemporary dance group takes on the Summer of Love
The Seldoms look back at the protests, drugs, and music of the 60s.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2016
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Megabus explodes en route to Minneapolis and other Chicago news
Also, family searches for British tourist missing in West Pullman, and Bernie Sanders's 1963 arrest immortalized in photo.
- 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 May 6, 2015
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Lincoln's relevance was buried at his funeral's 150th anniversary in Springfield
History remained history at the state capital this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2015
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John Lewis's struggle for civil rights continues in March: Book Two
The second installment of the activist-turned-congressman's graphic memoir looks back at the nonviolent protests of the 60s and his time as a Freedom Rider.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
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Sheriff Dart: It's time to stop packing the jail
In an interview at the Hideout, the Cook County sheriff discusses the intersection between mental illness and the jail.
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 13, 2014
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The missing link in the War on Poverty
To better help the urban poor, government must address not just their deprivation but also their segregation.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 15, 2013
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The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in
A new film project tries to capture the life of the physician who takes care of Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2013
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New Walmart subsidized with millions of taxpayer dollars—and some residents are thrilled
The largest corporation in the world is hailed in a neighborhood desperate for jobs.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
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A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin
Activists aren't waiting for another movement (or another Martin Luther King) to push for change.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
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A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement.
