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News & Features, Feature, Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal

Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, poverty, books, segregation, inequality, desegregation, schools, education, race, Melville Fuller, suburbs, expressways, City Council, Herold Hunt, history, 1963, 1964, Benjamin Willis, Chicago Times, Columbia University, Kathryn Neckerman, 1863, teachers, West Garfield Park, neighborhoods, Illinois General Assembly, Penny Sebring, law, Nancy Hanks, magnet schools, newspapers, school integration, parents, school closing, school consolidation, CPS, diversity, Chicago Urban League, James Compton, Chicago Public Schools, HEW, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, busing, U.S. Department of Justice, Colored School law, Chicago Board of Education, school utilization, Equity and Excellence Commission, Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, Melody Elementary School, 1888, U.S. Supreme Court, Julius Hoffman, 1961, de jure segregation, de facto segregation, Annette Gurley, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, Pavlyn Jankov, Karen Lewis, University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research, Audio

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Arts & Culture, Feature, May 23, 2013
StoryCorps puts Chicago behind the microphone

The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.
- by Janet Potter
- Tags: Feature, StoryCorps, NPR, National Public Radio, radio, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Ritesh Parekh, Tina Shah, documentation, Mariana Motherway, Michael Motherway, adoption, race, recording, Shirley Alfaro, conversation, dialogue, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, Griot Initiative, Historias, Military Voices Initiative, Chicago Public Library, CPL, One Book One Chicago, Great Migration, audio recording, stories, oral history, Chicago Cultural Center

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News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, guns, gun violence, The Crime Report, violence interrupters, Marilyn Pitchford, shootings, gun violence, violence, CeaseFire, Sheldon Smith, ex-offenders, Safer Foundation, Tony Wade, conflicts, conflict resolution, Greater Grand Crossing, South Side, neighborhoods, Hales Franciscan High School, Kennedy-King College, U.S. attorney, Jack Tweedle, ATF, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, social services, Project Safe Neighborhoods, City Colleges, 911, Barack Obama's house, Anita Alvarez, City Council, Cook County state's attorney, roots of violence, poverty, Michael Chandler, 24th Ward, gang members, Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, Charlie Beck, Connie Rice, Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Develop, U.S. Department of Justice, Phil Cline, murder, race, Rahm Emanuel, CPD, Chicago Police Department, policing, Violence Reduction Strategy, Gary McCarthy, police overtime, Englewood, Hadiya Pendleton, West Humboldt Park, Frederick Seaton, interruption, gun laws, Michael Davis, Turkey Chop, restaurants, Napoleon English, liquor stores, prison, crime, punishment, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, George Mason University, Christopher Koper, basketball, high school basketball, marijuana, drinking, drug dealing, Gangster Disciples, gangs, Evans Mob, Vice Lords, drug territory, gang territory, addiction, Audio

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News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Mar 6, 2013
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The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball

Mike Lenehan's Ramblers aims to go behind the headlines about racial integration and the 1963 NCAA regional semifinals.
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Mike Lenehan, Michael Lenehan, basketball, college basketball, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Loyola University Chicago, The Sporting News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Loyola-Mississippi State game, history, 1963, 1963 Loyola Ramblers, Loyola Ramblers, chicagosidesports.com, Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, NCAA, UCLA, books, race, racial integration, Loyola-Cincinnati NCAA final, 1963 NCAA final, The New York Times, sports, The Atlantic, Doug Seibold, literary agents, Don Haskins, Adam Lucas, Seth Davis, Jerry Harkness, final four

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Music, Music Feature, Feb 20, 2013
Tim'm West and the masculine mystique

In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.
- by B. David Zarley
- Tags: Music Feature, Center on Halsted, black gay identity, HIV, MCs, AIDS, black gay men, identity, New School, Stanford University, LGBTQ advocacy, black nationalism, ACT UP, Black Panthers, pan-Africanism, Juba Kalamka, Philip Atiba Goff, D/DC, Lightskindid Philosopher, spoken-word, Tim'm West, poetry, LGBTQ youth, Deep Dickollective, hip-hop, Mykki Blanco, Frank Ocean, Hannah Said, race, sexuality, Boystown, homophobia, south side, west side, Little Rock, Arkansas, Duke University, Duke's Enlightened Nubians, masculinity, Tongues Untied, free-style, Hieroglyphics, De La Soul, Pharcyde, BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo, Common, rap disses, rappers, Hip-Hop on the Down Low, gay hip-hop, Freaky Bois, Roy Kinsey, Holiday Peace Out

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 15, 2013
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Kara Walker's war

The artist traces the outline of racism in "Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!"
- by Janet Potter
- Tags: Art Review, Rise Up Ye Mighty Race, Kara Walker, panoramas, silhouettes, stereotypes, Marcus Garvey, MacArthur Foundation, MOMA, race, racism, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, genius grants, Art Institute of Chicago, Recommended

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News & Features, Feature, Jan 23, 2013
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A tough lesson about the N-word

Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, Lincoln Brown, Rick Ross, Greg Mason, Murray Language Academy, Chicago Board of Education, CPS, Neil Lester, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center, Chicago Public Schools, free speech, n-word, schools, teachers, teaching, Rashida Foluke, Randall Kennedy, race, Mos Def, Jeff Miller, words, First Amendment

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News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college

Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, Chicago Public Schools, race, racial diversity, segregation, south side, North Shore, Hayley Himmelman, Jasmeen Wellere, New Trier High School, Hirsch Metropolitan High School, school segregation, Barack Obama, school integration, Illinois Standard Achievement Test, Senn High School, Glencoe, Nortwestern Universirty, ACT scores, SIU-Edwardsville

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 4, 2012
Marathoners, avoid twisted ankles and firing cannons

Always be well-prepared to run a marathon, but also always be well-prepared to dodge cannon fire
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Shots Fired, Marathon Week, Sports, Marathon Week, marathon, Sis Daley, ankle sprain, shin splint, Sarah Phillips, Guardian, Steve Bogira, running, race, finish line, puking, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 23, 2012
Chicago's poorest neighborhoods may also be its sleepiest

Race is a significant factor in how much sleep you get, according to a new study
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Crime, Science, Dim the Lights, News, Mercedes Carnethon, Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, sleep, race, Kristen Knutson, Northwestern, Steve Bogira, segregation, inequality

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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Mamet alert: Race runs on

Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Goodman Theatre, David Mamet, Race, Chuck Smith, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Performing Arts, Arts, Behind Our Scenes, Rhinofest, Invisible Man, Race, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Accidental Rapture, Jennifer Biddle, An Aspect of God and Next and Her Savior, Black Pearl Sings, Civil War Dad, Clutter, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Collaboraction, Carlos Murillo, Love and Money, Steep Theatre, On Loss, Mark Chrisler, Punk Rock, Simon Stephens, Griffin Theatre, Hawkeye Plainview, Tennyson Spade, A Woman's Path, Annoyance Theatre, Totally Adequate Scone, Dance Colective, Built by Fault

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jan 26, 2012
After a hiatus from reality, Mamet's back

Race marks a return to form—sort of
- by Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, David Mamet, Goodman Theatre, Chuck Smith, race, race relations, wild card outsider, defense attornies

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2011
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Toni Preckwinkle's plan to shrink the jail population

Toni Preckwinkle's plan to shrink the jail population
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, Politics, Clout City, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County, Cook County board, Cook County jail, Tom Dart, Timothy Evans, Dorothy Brown, Anita Alvarez, Cook County state's attorney, Cook County Circuit Court, marijuana, pot, possession, war on drugs, drugs, arrests, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Council, bond court, race

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News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jun 16, 2011
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When race isn't mentioned

When crime struck, Chicago's papers didn't focus on race, but neither have Mayor Emanuel's neighbors
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, mob attacks, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich, Dawn Turner Trice, Rex Huppke, Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Mitchell, Stella Foster, crime, race, Video

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News & Features, Politics, Feb 10, 2011
Separate, Unequal, and Ignored

Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Politics, Chicago, race, segregation, election, politics, census, black, white, Latino, Hispanic, demographics, Chicago Housing Authority, Patricia Watkins, William "Dock" Walls, Miguel del Valle, Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, Carol Mosley Braun

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 24, 2010
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Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee ripped the cover off urban America for my 13-year-old self with his 1989 tour de force. He speaks and signs copies of his photo memoir "Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing" 12/24 at Barbara's Bookstore at Maxwell Street, er, University Village.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Do the Right Thing, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Barbara's Bookstore, Jason Matloff, race, L.A. Riots, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2010
Winter Kill

Met Life arms black newspapers with a cold, hard truth.
- by Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Race, actuarial science, lifespan, climate

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 12, 2010
John Pick: Wise Guy

John Pick wins Mamet prize and empathizes with unrecognized terrorists hiding in remote caves
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Onstage, Media, News Bites, Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, John Pick, David Mamet, Race, Grant Pick, Kathy Richland, Chicago Reader, "The Dog, " "Up and Coming Terrorists"

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 16, 2010
Love Is Blind

He only had eyes for her
- by Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Acid, blinding, spousal abuse, Stockholm Syndrome, sight, race

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