Chicago
Labor Day celebration of struggle: Bea Lumpkin’s 100th Birthday!
August 15, 2018The life of activist Bea Lumpkin is a reminder that hope will always defeat hate; that another world is possible.
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Chicago has no ‘shortage of values,’ what it lacks are resources
August 8, 2018Rahm Emanuel says Chicago has “a shortage of values.” What the city is really short on is opportunity and public investment.
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Chicago’s iconic HotHouse awarded grant for excellence in music programming
August 7, 2018Now in its 31st year, HotHouse has been one of the Chicago's leading presenters of multi-cultural and multidisciplinary partnerships and initiatives.
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Harith Augustus shooting, protests take place against gentrification backdrop
July 17, 2018Chicago community members came head-to-head with police Saturday after a Southside barber was shot and killed by officers.
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Chicago uses “hearing” to tamp down demands for police accountability
May 16, 2018Demands have grown in recent years in the nation’s “second city” after a succession of killings by police that the communities say should never have happened.
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