Perspectives
Is the only way to fix policing to end it?
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After years of abuse, cover-ups and costs, many Chicago activists say it’s clear that policing can’t be reformed.
Perspectives
How Ida B. Wells finally got the recognition she deserves in Chicago
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The civil rights pioneer’s great-granddaughter recounts how grassroots support and social media made the difference in honoring Wells in her adopted hometown.
Perspectives
Kanye’s comments on slavery validate racist policymaking
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The leading black artist’s remark reinforced false and timeworn rhetoric about black labor that has real life policy implications.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
For one black family, a cycle of school closings
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Poor students continue to bear the brunt of Chicago’s newly approved plans to shut down more public schools.
Black History Month
The hidden history of early African American inventors
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Although American slaves were not allowed to hold patents on their own inventions, they built a legacy of black innovation that continues to this day.
Black History Month
The women who laid the groundwork for black nationalist movements
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History often overlooks the critical contributions of black women activists who shaped pre-civil rights era politics and organizing from Jamaica to Chicago.
Perspectives
The fight to end the HIV epidemic must happen in black neighborhoods
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Access to testing, treatment, and research needs to be improved among African-Americans, who are disproportionately impacted by new HIV diagnoses.
Criminal Justice
More African-Americans apply to become cops, but few make it to finish line
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Although the police department is pushing to diversify, it’s hiring whites and Latinos at rates more than double that of blacks, analysis shows.
Perspectives
Opioid crisis ‘whitewashed’ to ignore rising black death rate
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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
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.