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- News & Politics, Feature Dec 2, 2020
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Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’
Current and former employees of Pangea describe racism, segregation, and a "toxic" workplace.
- News & Politics, News Nov 25, 2020
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‘We're not asking for any more than what we are already deserved’
Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Nov 20, 2020
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Treat racism as a risk factor to deal with health inequity at the community level
Here’s how to make it happen.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 16, 2020
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This land is my land
For generations, my family has owned a piece of untold Black history in Boley, Oklahoma. This year, I finally got to see it.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 16, 2020
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The myth of housing mobility
The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
- News & Politics, Feature May 13, 2020
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Will COVID-19 force us to right racial health disparities?
A conversation about what the pandemic has made intolerable
- City Life, Sightseeing Aug 28, 2019
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They thought he was an ‘agitator’
Franklin A. Denison was no rabble-rouser, but the Bureau of Investigation said he sparked the 1919 race riot.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jul 3, 2019
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Is having a 'thing for Black guys' racist?
How to check that shit. Plus: A room with a view, outside and in.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 1, 2019
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A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans
Chicago Shakespeare's staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 10, 2019
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The Firestorm pulls its punches in its examination of white privilege
Our hero a racist? No sirree!
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 3, 2018
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Lit recs for the reader exhausted by the weight of history
The current book obsessions of Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt and essayist and Women & Children First co-owner Sarah Hollenbeck.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Nov 30, 2018
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'Am I just bipolar and kinky? Are the two related somehow?'
Advice on avoiding a hypersexual state. Plus: Embracing hyperfeminine presentation, and more.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
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Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio
The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 26, 2018
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Alexis J. Roston fully inhabits Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Congo Square Theatre's revival paints a vibrant portrait of Billie Holiday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2018
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Neckbeard Deathcamp go viral with a black-metal takedown of neo-Nazis
Neckbeard Deathcamp turn racist Internet edgelords' weapons against them on White Supremacy Is for Basement Dwelling Losers.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 11, 2018
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Black hockey players excel on ice despite history of racism, lack of rinks in Chicago
A dearth of ice rinks and long history of racial tension have hampered efforts to diversify hockey’s ranks—but that’s changing.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 11, 2018
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How to get laid without freaking out
Advice for a victim of sexual abuse and rape. Plus: Help, I snooped and discovered what I most feared!
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 13, 2018
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Racism won’t even let the black hero of Hang Man get off in peace
Instead, Stacy Osei-Kuffour’s dark comedy leaves him dangling from a noose.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 6, 2018
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Plantation! uses a sitcom sensibility to explore the case for reparations
The Lookingglass world premiere strives to be a very special episode.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2018
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Collaboraction dedicates a new performance festival to racism and racial healing in Chicago
Following up on last fall's Peacebook festival, the Encounter series features a range of programming and a tour of Englewood, Austin, and Hermosa.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 25, 2017
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Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see
A delightful kids' show and a Neo-Futurist's look at dementia are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2017
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Emanuel slams Trump over Charlottesville: ‘Members of the neo-Nazi and the KKK think they have a friend in the Oval Office,’ and other Chicago news
Also, Rauner isn't happy with the state senate's override of his school funding veto.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2017
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Illinois senate overrides Rauner's amendatory veto of the school funding bill, and other news
Also, hundreds of Chicagoans gathered Sunday to denounce racism and bigotry after the violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 2, 2017
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Definition Theatre’s An Octoroon boldly subverts, in white-, red-, and blackface
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects a wildly popular—and wildly racist—19th-century melodrama.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2017
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R. Kelly is allegedly running an abusive ‘cult,’ and other Chicago news
Also, new Chicago Water Department emails show attempts at firearms deals and jokes about the city's gun violence.
