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- Film, Movie Review Nov 7, 2019
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Harriet is the heroic biopic Harriet Tubman deserves
The fast-paced feature is a satisfying blend of history and action.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Aug 17, 2018
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At the Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith wants to reshape the narrative of black life in America
The culmination of his project will be a reconstruction of a slave ship in the museum’s basement.
- 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 Nov 16, 2017
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Shootings and homicides in Englewood on pace to reach record lows in 2017, and other Chicago news
Also, local preservationists want landmark designation for Emmett Till's Woodlawn home.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2017
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Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains
Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 10, 2017
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Hair, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now
"The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week's best bets.
- 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 Apr 6, 2016
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'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.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2016
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Twelve years later, a nightmare becomes a book
One Day's Tale is a novel that took Lois Barliant 12 years to write and publish.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2015
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Texas abolishes (the history of) slavery
On Texas's slave-free new geography book
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2015
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Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled
"We've got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have," Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2014
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Could reparations for African-Americans help reduce violence?
A conversation with veteran reparations activist and political organizer Conrad Worrill.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2014
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Let's get realistic about America's Founding Fathers
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and the other Founding Fathers—a great group of guys or what?
- Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2014
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On the case for reparations—and the National Review's response
Those owed reparations are long dead, huh?
- Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2014
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It's time, finally, to discuss reparations for African-Americans
"We may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans," Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. "But we stand to discover much about ourselves in such a discussion."
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 20, 2013
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Appropriate consequences at Victory Gardens
Grandpa's secret comes out and the family melts down in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new play.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2013
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Uncounted prisoners and the race gap
A new book argues that national surveys don't tell the whole story.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2013
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 30, 2013
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The Whipping Man goes south
Matthew Lopez's play shows its seams in a Northlight Theatre production.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Sep 5, 2012
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Blacks and blackface
Darkest America parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2011
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This is what theocracy looks like
The Republican candidates tackle the key biblical issues in Iowa Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2010
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Traces of the Trade
Katrina Browne uncovers the roots and the psychic consequences of her ancestors' enormous slave trading empire in the documentary "Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North," in four free screenings in Chicago and the west suburbs starting Thursday.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2007
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New history
"Real" Indians were here earlier than most of us imagined.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2007
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Truths your teacher didn't tell you
Don't look down on Australia.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2007
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White Girl in the Promised Land
Thinking about the crime every white American profits from.
