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April, 2012
Did you miss Editor and Interim Publisher Kimbriell Kelly on the Barber Shop Show? Listen online. bss ep 72.mp3 This week on the Barber Shop Show, the Chicago Reporter will discuss the sentencing of police officer Howard Morgan, plus the broader issue of recent police shootings and accountability.
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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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March, 2012
This story is the first installment in a series of 12 profiles on anti-violence organizations throughout Chicago. The series is funded by the Field Foundation. By the time Adrian Hernandez reached adolescence, he knew how to stand his ground in a schoolyard brawl. As Mexican growing up on a West Humboldt Park block dominated by Puerto Ricans, he never got much respect. And he’d taken enough...
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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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March, 2012
The news: In January, a 24-year-old man was charged with arson—one of eight “index crime” categories tracked nationwide by the FBI—after he allegedly set off a rash of car and building fires across Los Angeles.Behind the news: Overall, index crimes, including arson, are down in Chicago, but in the past five years, four police districts on the North and Northwest sides posted an increase in at...
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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
Rapper Young DBoy Low and his friends shoot a video with the help of Project Spitfire, a nonprofit that uses music to help young people break free of the vicious cycle of gangs, drugs and violence. The group pairs young musicians with professional producers who help them record songs and videos.
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February, 2012
Protesters, many of whom are members of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and Fearless Leading by Youth (FLY), demand that the University of Chicago Medical Center reopen its level-one trauma center, which closed in 1988. There are no adult level-one trauma centers on the South Side, and one of the founding members of FLY, Damian Turner, died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
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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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