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September, 2007
Clarence Jones, who served as an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a May teach-in. (Photo by Walter S. Mitchell III)
Numerous anti-war organizations and thousands of demonstrators in Chicago have publicly denounced the Iraq war. But leaders of a local African American group feel their communities haven't been served by the war or represented in the anti-war effort.
On May 3, two...
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September, 2007
At 10 years old, Juan Lopez was carrying a gun. Growing up in the 1970s in Humboldt Park, a community rife with gang activity, he was easily lured into a lifestyle that promised power and respect.
Even after he was shot twice, Lopez's allegiance to his gang didn't waver until he started losing cousins like "running water."
"I guess that made me kind of see the light at the end of the...
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September, 2007
In high school, Donald Hubert, a poor kid from the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, was assigned to classes that prepared him to become a laborer, and few classmates assumed he'd do anything different. Even his mother encouraged him to join the military. But he had a different plan.
When his parents moved to Kankakee County during his sophomore year, in 1963, Hubert stayed behind and...
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