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COVID-19 forces changes in strategies for anti-violence groups

By Eddie B. Allen, Jr. | January 13, 2021

COVID 19 forces changes in strategies for anti-violence groups

Like much of the country, Autry Phillips was caught off guard when a worldwide health crisis descended on Chicago last year. In addition to his long-time, ongoing efforts to reduce neighborhood violence, he now faced the challenge of conveying his organization’s message to residents who were increasingly vulnerable to a rampant virus. “When COVID hit back in March we didn’t know what to do,” says Phillips, executive director of Target Area Development Corp.. “If COVID was part of a street organization and carrying a gun, hanging out on the corner, I would have known exactly what to do. We had no idea what to do with COVID.”

Aside from sharing federal safety guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (“We said, ‘It’s time to put the guns down, but you gotta put a mask on now,’” recalls Phillips.), he and other peace activists have been forced to regroup and re-strategize.

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Government and Politics

Chicago City Council quietly begins push to decriminalize psychedelics

By Josh McGhee | October 24, 2019

Ald. Brian Hopkins sponsored a resolution calling for the city to deprioritize arrests and investigations of adults using the drugs and for the public health department to study the plants as alternative treatment options.

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Infective endocarditis, a side effect of the injection drug crisis is on the rise in Illinois, posing financial and ethical concerns

By Lu Zhao | October 16, 2019

Amid the high cost of hospitalizing an increasing number of young people suffering from the infection, doctors express reluctance to treat patients likely to resume drug use that will put them at greater risk in the future.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

It’s time to reopen Chicago’s closed mental health clinics

By Curtis Black | May 9, 2019

As officials revisit one of Rahm Emanuel’s most controversial policies, providers have different ideas for how to restore care to the many patients who have fallen through the cracks.

Perspectives

Food deserts persist in Chicago despite more supermarkets

By Marynia Kolak, Daniel Block and Myles Wolf | October 3, 2018

Most new grocery stores were built in areas with plentiful access in recent years, and those added to high-need areas were not enough to mitigate the effects of longstanding disinvestment and segregation, according to a new study.

Perspectives

The fight to end the HIV epidemic must happen in black neighborhoods

By Darnell N. Motley | February 7, 2018

Access to testing, treatment, and research needs to be improved among African-Americans, who are disproportionately impacted by new HIV diagnoses.

Perspectives

Opioid crisis ‘whitewashed’ to ignore rising black death rate

By Kathie Kane-Willis and Stephanie Schmitz Bechteler | January 22, 2018

African Americans in Illinois and other states are disproportionately dying from opioid overdoses. That contradicts the prevailing racial narratives on handling the drug epidemic punitively.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

Illinois Republicans try to lay low on repealing Obamacare

By Curtis Black | June 22, 2017

With the GOP threatening health care coverage, especially for Medicaid recipients, activists are demanding answers from local lawmakers who are quietly supporting the bills.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

Emanuel’s plan could leave city retirees without health insurance

By Curtis Black | December 21, 2016

A City of Chicago health care subsidy for retirees is being phased out at the same time as President-elect Donald Trump seeks to repeal Obamacare.

Housing

Proposed HUD ban lights up debate about smoking

By Jonah Newman | November 18, 2015

Experts and residents are divided on the benefits and fairness of a national smoking ban in public housing units.

Perspectives: The Powers That Be

Beyond legal protections, disability rights advocates seek economic progress

By Curtis Black | July 23, 2015

Twenty-five years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, people living with disabilities continue to face high poverty rates and barriers to employment.

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