Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/race-and-culture/page/2/)
Chicago’s Afro-American Patrolmen’s League worked to increase the ranks of black police officers and stop police abuse in the city’s African-American community. Today, many in the community say the system matters more than the race of the police officer.
A journey across Halsted, Chicago’s second longest street, showcases the city’s history, cultural diversity and economic stratification.
Bridgeview and neighboring suburbs have become a hub for Arab American life in the Chicago area and nationwide.
With “right to work” rhetoric increasing in Illinois and threatening workers — especially blacks and Latinos — who benefit from organized-labor movements, it’s worth recalling the first proponent of this anti-union agenda.
West Humboldt Park is a working class community with a rich Puerto Rican heritage — although demographics are shifting as gentrification creeps westward. Take a walk through the neighborhood and you will find a thriving arts community, residents who are engaged in anti-violence efforts and longtime business owners who hope things don’t change too much.
Hundreds gathered Thursday at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters on the South Side to celebrate the life of long-time civil rights leader Rev. Willie T. Barrow.
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.”
ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” stirs mixed emotions for some Chicago-area Asian-Americans, who are glad the show features their culture, but worry that falling back on stereotypes may do more harm than good.
In 1983, Harold Washington made history with a coalition of support from black, Latinos and whites around the city.
Black children going to school in the United States are given a month, a speech and a hero to cling to as they navigate vast historical perspectives during Black History Month.