TCR Talks
Under Trump, Chicago organizers gear up to build coalitions
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Local grassroots activists say the presidential election heightens the need to align causes between groups fighting against oppressive economic and social systems.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Democratic leaders aided Trump by failing the working class
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Progressives must champion job creation without the racist appeals popularized by both parties in recent decades.
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.
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.”
Civil Rights Movement
The political legacy of the KKK
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When most people think of the Ku Klux Klan, they likely picture a failed extremist group whose activities have been long buried in American history. But a recent paper in the American Sociological Review offers a different view. The study’s authors say the Klan’s influence did not end with the triumphs of the civil rights movement and has had a lasting impact on both southern and national politics.
Government and Politics
Misplaced ID teaches voting-rights lesson in Texas
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A lost driver’s license sparks fear of disenfranchisement for one voter in Texas, a state that has one of the nation’s strictest voter-ID laws.
Perspectives
Still learning lessons from Emmett Till
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For Christopher, who also makes gentle the life of the world. With thanks. — Ethel
It was a call I almost didn’t answer 10 years ago. Northern Virginia area code. Puzzled over that a bit.
racism
‘Crack Babies’: Black Children Defy Stereotypes, Face Bias
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Britney is a playful little girl. By mid-morning one Thursday in early January, she had put her hot pink sweater and pink, polka-dot pants on inside out and backwards, covered her face with shaving cream and painted a sheet of paper completely blue, titling the picture “daddy.” She’s also antsy. Sitting for a lesson is difficult. Her squirminess lands her wrapped in the teacher’s lap. And she’s needy.
racism
Losing Their Children: As State Cracks Down on Parents, Black Families Splinter
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Life stopped for Joanne and Jerry Nicholas at 10:30 a.m. on July 27, 1993. Investigators from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services knocked on their door and took away their six children, ages 1 year to 7 years. A recent visit found the couple sitting in their home, contemplating their loss. Their three-bedroom house, once full of activity, is now silent. “I can’t let go of the baby bed,” said Joanne Nicholas, 31, standing in her living room in Englewood on Chicago’s South Side as she recalled the day officials took the baby away.