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Deborah L. Shelton

Deborah L. Shelton

Deborah is the managing editor at The Chicago Reporter. Email her at dshelton@chicagoreporter.com and follow her on Twitter @deborahlshelton.

Race and Culture

In Kenwood, black picket fences

By Deborah L. Shelton | May 8, 2016

Black middle-class families are drawn to South Side neighborhoods like Kenwood, but the city’s long history of segregation casts a shadow on their quality of life.

Criminal Justice

Widespread discontent, out-of-state dollars helped defeat Alvarez

By Deborah L. Shelton | March 16, 2016

Kim Foxx won votes across race and class lines in Cook County, drawing on push for police reform.

Criminal Justice

Police accountability takes center stage in Cook County State’s Attorney race

By Deborah L. Shelton | March 1, 2016

The March 15 Democratic primary could be a referendum on Anita Alvarez’s handling of officer-involved shootings and send a message to prosecutors across the country.

Black middle-class
Hadiya Pendleton

Living in the cross hairs of gun violence

By Deborah L. Shelton | September 29, 2015

Chicago’s black middle-class can’t escape the city’s social problems, including its crime.

The new treatment center

Mentally ill behind bars

By Deborah L. Shelton | April 27, 2015

This map is a snapshot of home addresses, by ZIP code, of Cook County Jail detainees who self-identified as living with mental illness on Jan. 29, 2015.

The new treatment center
Katherine Rodgers

Room for a new life

By Deborah L. Shelton | April 27, 2015

Program offers stability and independence for people with mental illness.

The new treatment center
Annie Parker

Guilty of mental illness

By Deborah L. Shelton | April 27, 2015

Alex Bailey has cycled in and out of Cook County Jail his entire adulthood. His life shows how mental illness has been criminalized, especially for black men.

Criminal Justice

To honor shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton, we need more than a park

By Deborah L. Shelton | April 16, 2015

A much better way to honor Hadiya would be to stop the shootings in the North Kenwood neighborhood where she was shot—and end gun violence in other communities across the city. Renaming a playlot just doesn’t seem good enough.

Editor's Blog

When Chicago elected its first black mayor

By Deborah L. Shelton | March 18, 2015

Managing editor Deborah L. Shelton relives her generation’s Obama Moment.

Criminal Justice
A man was lynched yesterday

A laundry list of lynchings

By Deborah L. Shelton and Yuri Han | February 12, 2015

Lynching in the South in the last century was worse than previously reported, according to new research. A major Chicago daily once kept an annual tally.

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