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- Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 8, 2018
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The roving live talk show The Hoodoisie makes radical politics entertaining and accessible
If the world can be saved, host Ricardo Gamboa believes it will be through open dialogue and dirty jokes.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 2, 2018
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Caught between black and blue
Was the police shooting of Harith Augustus justified? Is Blue Lives Matter for white cops only? Three black Chicago-area officers talk about what things look like from where they stand.
- News & Politics, The Vibe Feb 14, 2018
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J.B. Pritzker's ‘African-American Thing’
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
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Pritzker the sneak disser might as well have said the N-word
Adeshina Emmanuel decodes J.B. Pritzker's wiretapped conversation about the "African-American thing."
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
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Why renters should care about the Cook County assessor's race
Dramatic changes in property tax assessment have a deep impact on renters, assessor candidate Fritz Kaegi says.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 13, 2017
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Red Velvet is a singular anti-achievement
Lolita Chakrabarti’s biodrama about the first black actor to play Othello on the London stage gets the story wrong for all the wrong reasons.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 14, 2017
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White folks! Prepare to squirm!
Steppenwolf’s Pass Over is unflinching on the war against young black men.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 20, 2017
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After Trump's air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus
Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
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An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth
DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2017
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New study finds segregation costs Chicago billions in income, tens of thousands of college degrees, and hundreds of lives each year
The Metropolitan Planning Council tries to stir policy makers into targeting segregation by showing how white people suffer from it too.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2017
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Muslim, Latina, and attacked from all sides
Chicago-area resident Diana Cruz on living in Trump’s America
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2017
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A farewell to Obama—our country’s most inclusive president
The audacious vision of a Chicago president changed politics as we knew it.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 9, 2017
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Obama’s early writing on Chicago was eerily prophetic about America’s future
He foresaw a “sharp wind” blowing away the change the city’s first black mayor had worked for.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2016
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The Chicago Police Department is recruiting black and Hispanic candidates, and other news
Also, a study of local high school students shows that studying music changes the teenage brain.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 21, 2016
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Don’t blame ‘identity politics’ for what went wrong in 2016
We marginalized folks didn't start this garbage fire.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 9, 2016
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Chicago’s new, frightening reality: A blue city in the red nation
Chicago fears the worst as Trump sweeps the nation.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2016
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No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women
Although black women were Hillary Clinton’s strongest block of support, in Chicago they expressed mixed feelings at the polls.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2016
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Dispatch from Chicago's Trumplandia
At the polls with Chicago's anti-establishment southwest siders
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2016
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‘It feels like we're screwed either way’: Latinos vote with mix of apathy and trepidation
Voters in Pilsen and Little Village cast ballots in an election marked by hateful rhetoric about immigrants.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 4, 2016
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People who give racism a free pass are part of the Trump problem
A new poll suggests that most Americans are only too willing to overlook racism in their peers.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 29, 2016
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Without addressing racism, Mayor Emanuel's violence-prevention plan will fail
Systemic racial prejudice was the single-largest missing element from Rahm’s “major speech.”
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 3, 2016
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Onstage this fall: Race and violence
The next season of Chicago theater season shows a new emphasis on social consciousness.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Aug 30, 2016
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Trump needs to keep Chicago’s name out of his mouth
When you mention our name, Trump, put some “respeck” on it.
- Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2016
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Survey finds Chicagoans deeply divided by race, and other news
Also, Chicago police are rolling out thousands of body cameras after successful trial run.
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2016
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Friends of the Parks rejects Lucas Museum on any lakefront site, and other Chicago news
Also, CPS unveils new policy ensuring transgender students equal access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
