TCR Talks
What segregation is costing Chicago
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A new study quantifies how much the region is losing in lives, income, gross domestic product, and educational achievement due to its high level of racial and economic segregation.
Race and Culture
‘Dog whistle’ is GOP’s longtime political weapon of choice
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Critical race theory scholar Ian Haney-Lopez discusses “strategic racism” in the presidential election.
Criminal Justice
Acting on the ‘hard truths’ of racism in the Chicago Police Department
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The mayor’s task force acknowledged that racism and a lack of accountability pervade the Chicago Police Department, but questions of legitimacy affect hope for real reform.
Race and Culture
Families of police shooting victims form bonds built on loss
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From Emmett Till to Rekia Boyd, generations of families affected by racial violence find solace by supporting each other’s struggles.
Publisher's Note
Same mission, different platform
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After 43 years as a print publication, The Chicago Reporter will focus its reporting about race, poverty and income inequality online.
Editor's blog
Police shooting video highlights importance of accountability
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The video of a Chicago police officer shooting into a car of unarmed black teenagers scratches the surface of deep problems with policing.
Publisher's Note
For many with mental illness, it’s arrest, incarcerate, release, repeat
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In March, Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan, was shot and killed by a police officer in suburban Atlanta. Neighbors called police when an unarmed Hill was seen wandering around his apartment complex naked. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Hill’s death is one example of a recent deadly encounter between police and people living with mental illness. Shootings in Dallas and Milwaukee also have made national news and sparked calls for better police training.
Publisher's Note
The promise and peril of mixed-income housing
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Almost 20 years ago, a wrecking ball leveled a 14-story high-rise at the Henry Horner Homes on the city’s Near West Side. What has happened since then is both amazing and disturbing. Horner, a public housing development, became Westhaven Park, a mixed-income community of market-rate renters, homeowners and former Horner residents. The transformation from Horner to Westhaven was a bold leap to create a better environment for public housing residents who had complained of everything from roaches to gangs to unlit stairwells. In many ways, life is better.
Q&A
Talking in codes
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Ian Haney-López, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading scholar of critical race theory, talks with Editor and Publisher Susan Smith Richardson about his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”
Publisher's Note
In Chicago’s black community, a broken ladder to opportunity
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Schools and jobs are the hottest issues in the upcoming mayoral race. So it seemed a logical fit for The Chicago Reporter and Catalyst Chicago to collaborate on a joint publication about a February election that is actually shaping up to be about one big issue: opportunity. Access to quality public education is at the center of the American success story and a lynchpin of the civil rights agenda. With a good education, any child, irrespective of race or class, can potentially climb to the top rung of the economic ladder. Or so goes the narrative.