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April, 2012
Did you miss this week's Barber Shop Show? Listen online. bss 75.mp3On this week's Barber Shop Show, Noe Gil and Terrance Rogers, two students from Uplift Community High School in Uptown, talk about their experiences with violence first hand. They have been working closely with The Chicago Reporter to produce a story based on their experiences traveling to school.Later in the show, we’ll hear...
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May, 2012
From Mary Magdalene Missionary Baptist Church, a small congregation in Roseland, I see a series of enormous tasks that our community faces, including the need to save our youth from the violence that plagues our streets. A recent Chicago Reporter headline said it all: “More young people are killed in Chicago than any other American city” [March/April 2012]. The sad truth is that too many of...
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March, 2012
Did you miss Editor and Interim Publisher Kimbriell Kelly on the Barber Shop Show? Listen online.
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February, 2012
Growing up in Mexico and then Mesa, Ariz. with a mother who worked long hours, Jose Castro started writing out of loneliness. Soon he was rapping, and after turning 18 he moved to Las Vegas to try to make it big.Several years ago he felt like he was close— performing at the House of Blues and other big venues, working with producers and musicians with major label connections. Like many well...
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February, 2012
On a cold November evening, the strip of 75th Street in Englewood felt bleak and deserted, lined by boarded-up and dilapidated buildings. Outside a liquor store, young men appeared hyper-aware—on the lookout for conflict or danger. But the atmosphere inside a corner storefront across the street was completely different, filled with warmth and energy as South Side residents crowd the...
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February, 2012
"It wasn’t easy trying to survive a bullet to the chin,” rapped Ondelee Perteet, 17, to the tune of Lil Wayne beats played off his smartphone on Nov. 5.Ondelee was shot in the face at a birthday party at his older sister’s West Side apartment during Labor Day weekend in 2009—leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. His wide, sparkling smile is unaffected by the puckered scar on the right side of...
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January, 2012
More young people are killed in Chicago than any other American city. Since 2008, more than 530 youth have been killed in Chicago with nearly 80 percent of the homicides occurring in 22 African-American or Latino communities on the city's South, Southwest and West sides. [Data analysis by Alden K. Loury]
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January, 2012
“Pour out your heart like waterFor the lives of your childrenLet justice roll down like watersRighteousness like an everflowing stream.”So sang a soaring chorus of voices—young and old—inside Hyde Park Union Church on Nov. 6. The songs were interrupted by a somber litany of names: Chicago youth killed since the school year started in 2008. The event was called “Urban Dolorosa,” a commemoration...
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July, 2011
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to deploy 500 additional beat officers this summer to a handful of the city’s highest-crime areas could mean that more black teens are headed to jail for low-level crimes at a rate disproportionate to teens of other races.A Chicago Reporter analysis of Cook County court cases found that black teens aged 15, 16 and 17 are nearly four times more likely to be charged...
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