- News & Features, Savage Love, Mar 14, 2013
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The monetary value of foot-in-mouth
Plus: Dump the racist motherfucker already.
- 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!"
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
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Lessons from Mitzi Scott
More testimony from Mitzi Scott, counselor and recovering addict
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 7, 2012
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Listen up, playwrights! And avoid Bulrusher's three fatal flaws
A brief tutorial on modern drama, illustrated with examples from Eisa Davis's play
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2012
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Today in surprisingly nonracist YouTube videos
What do you mean by "double entendre"?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2012
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What I have in common with Joseph Epstein
John R. Tunis wrote the boys' book that meant the most to me
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 5, 2012
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Blacks and blackface
Darkest America parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 14, 2012
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Spare them our good intentions
Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 3, 2012
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Zombies save Detroit
Marc Siwak's plan for a zombie theme park in downtown Detroit
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 15, 2012
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Obama's deafening silence on poverty
The president knows how to avoid a subject
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 25, 2012
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Foxy Shazam and the Accidentally Racist Single
Rock revivalists accidentally revive an icky part of rock's past
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2012
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Thanks for fighting, Robert Lucas
Honoring the legacy of a legendary Chicago civil rights activist
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 21, 2012
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Things I hate: Wiener's Circle
The perverse social experiment that is a Lincoln Park hot dog shack
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 6, 2012
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The color of his skin
A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 29, 2012
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The color of his skin
Joe Henson was killed because he was black. Forty years later, the daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death. Part 1 of 2.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2012
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"A Racist Love Note"
Northwestern professor Harvey Young lectures on the racist history of V-Day cards
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Oct 6, 2011
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Rebecca Wolfram's hell on earth
'The Invisible Worm,' a collection of provocative paintings on view at the Thompson Center
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2011
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On Our Huckleberry Friend
Huckleberry Finn — the same old conversation.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 1, 2010
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You And What Army?
It's always somethin'.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 22, 2010
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Leaving "Black" Behind
Ytasha Womack argues that African-American identity contains multitudes
