Perspectives
Fear and insecurity shape the lives of children whose parents are undocumented
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A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation details the high toll of “crimmigration,” the intersection of criminal and immigration law.
Perspectives
Taking the #MeToo conversation beyond sexual harassment
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The viral hashtag points to the need for a broader paradigm shift on controlling women’s bodies.
Perspectives
Haki Madhubuti reflects on 50 years of cultivating black arts
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The founder of Third World Press continues his lifelong mission of building sustainable black institutions.
Perspectives
Soda tax debate overlooks sugar’s sinister history
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Our sugar addiction has roots in slavery and Cook County’s controversial tax could help disrupt an industry that profits off our poor health.
Race and Culture
In Chicago, Dick Gregory cultivated fame and activism
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The late comedian set the bar for black celebrities taking a stand on civil rights by risking arrest and lost income for causes throughout his life.
Perspectives
In dealing with Confederate monuments, South Africa provides a model
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Instead of celebrating emblems of white power as President Trump supports, removing them is a way to own our national narrative.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou: My lifelong guide
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Maya Angelou loomed so large in my life I once crashed a funeral — Alex Haley’s — where I planned to “kidnap” her. The plan to offer her a ride from the church in Memphis, Tenn., to the burial site in Henning made perfect sense: Who wouldn’t want spend about an hour riding up Highway 51 to Haley’s birthplace with Southern-style barbecue smells wafting through air-conditioner vents, telling Maya how she was one of my first friends, confidants and therapists — if only from the pages of her books? I just had to meet her, and if it meant driving three hours from where I was working as a young reporter in Jackson, Miss., to the church that was my refuge as a teen, and crashing the funeral of a famous distant cousin I had never met, so be it. She was basically coming to my home, and I wanted to roll out the red carpet. Alas, Maya couldn’t make it.
Child and Family
Black fathers more engaged than our president seems to think
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A recent study showing black fathers spend more time rearing their children than white and Hispanic fathers paints a more accurate picture of the black family than our president often does.
‘Skinny white girl’ yoga story illustrates the perils of privilege
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When a self-described “skinny white girl” writes about her empathy for the lone black woman in her yoga class, she’s taken to task for perpetuating white privilege and misrepresentations of women of color and their body images.