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- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2018
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Study: Aldermanic prerogative is reinforcing Chicago’s segregation problem
How an unwritten tradition among Chicago's aldermen allows them to block affordable housing in white wards.
- Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2018
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Chicago's civic and business elite put on epic display of wokeness, roll out racial equity plan
The Metropolitan Planning Council unveils a strategic response to its own "cost of segregation" report
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2018
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The life and death of Laverne Williams
Steve Bogira reminds us that a statistic is also a human being.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2018
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While Twitter followed the campaign of @MayorEmanuel in 2011, Steve Bogira took a serious look at segregation
Chicago in 2011 was nearly as segregated as it had been in 1970.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2018
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How’s Chicago supposed to desegregate when developments with affordable housing can be blocked by aldermen on a whim?
Yet another planned development with affordable units is killed on the northwest side.
- 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 22, 2017
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Eviction filings in Chicago appear to be on the decline
But this doesn’t mean low-income renters are better off.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 11, 2016
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How do you stop whitewashing Chicago theater?
The theater community gathered to work on a solution.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2016
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Director Tod Lending discusses racial segregation in Chicago and his new documentary All the Difference
The movie screens Sunday and Monday as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2016
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What does it mean to be a white ally?
White Chicagoans grapple with their place in the movement for black lives.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2016
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Rahm Emanuel’s plan for a healthy, segregated Chicago
A report by the mayor’s public health department offers 200 “actionable strategies” to diminish health inequities. Reducing segregation isn’t one of them.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2016
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Here's what's missing from the Police Accountability Task Force report
Poverty and segregation underlie many of our policing problems, but don't expect a task force to address them.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2016
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Hopped up on fictions about crack, Clinton defends his 1994 crime bill
The former president relies on a super-predator stereotype of his own to justify his bill's harsh sentences.
- 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 Nov 3, 2015
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Remembering Nelson Peery, Chicagoan and dyed-in-the-wool communist
The radical activist's death brought leftists out of the woodwork.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 21, 2015
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Why black family violence deserves more attention
It's a tough subject to write about, but Ta-Nehisi Coates is more than capable.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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A bus tour stops by polluted Altgeld Gardens
For more than 30 years, residents of the south-side housing project—called the "toxic doughnut"—have been fighting for environmental justice.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 20, 2015
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Maria Finitzo, director of a new Kartemquin film, discusses the problems facing inner-city school kids
The director of In the Game explains how her film about a south-side high school is a "call to action."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2015
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Park your car, tune into B.B. King, turn South Sacramento into a public art project
Landon Brown and 96 Acres will use different-colored automobiles to represent the population at Cook County Jail.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2015
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'Frances Stark: Intimism' goes inside the mind of a self-described horny middle-aged woman
The artist searches for liberation through photos, collages, Chatroulette transcripts, and cat videos.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2015
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Chicago is a city (still) on a hot seat
Chicago's deadly '95 heat wave turned 20, but complex questions raised in a 2002 Reader piece on the subject remain unanswered.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2015
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Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me grapples with ugly truths about race in America
The Atlantic essayist wonders if he can save his son from his country.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2015
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South Carolina is more educated about its history than you might think
Did public educatiion in South Carolina lead to the vote to furl the battle flag?
- 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 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.