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May, 2013
The “I-Word” is becoming an endangered species. This is one creature we don’t want to save.For years, immigrant advocates have been lobbying news organizations to cease using the term, “illegal immigrant.”“Illegal” took a welcome blow last month when the Associated Press announced it was dropping the term from its iconic stylebook. “The AP Stylebook,” a guide for grammar, punctuation and usage,...
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March, 2013
It could have been Drew. That thought has been my personal preoccupation lately. I think often about my younger brother, who could have been a casualty of multiple wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, and right at our back door—on the South Side of Chicago.Drew could be just another number, one of the 506 people killed in Chicago last year.On Dec. 31, Sgt. First Class Andrew N. Washington Jr. officially...
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January, 2013
“Race,” John A. McDermott wrote, “touches everybody and everything. Racial peace and progress are more than moral ideals today. They are matters of profound self-interest to every person and institution in this community.”That philosophy, posed in the inaugural editorial in The Chicago Reporter, was the mission of McDermott’s life and his most lasting legacy. In 1972, the civil rights activist...
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