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- News & Politics, Feature Jun 9, 2020
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Your wildest dreams and odd sleep patterns during the pandemic, explained
Therapists and sleep neurologists explain what’s making people rest uneasy as Chicago eases into a partial reopening.
- News & Politics, Essay Jun 3, 2020
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Essays as group therapy
How are Black writers coping? We’re chanting, fact-checking history, and envisioning a tiny future.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Apr 21, 2020
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Breathing while Black
Seeking safety isn’t so easy if you’re battling COVID-19 while Black.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Feb 1, 2017
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The Trump resistance is building solidarity across movements
Groups are collaborating across race and color lines to oppose the president’s executive orders.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Jan 25, 2017
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Can Chicago forgive Rahm Emanuel?
He’s starting with the “man in the mirror,” but will the DOJ report help him change his ways?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2017
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A farewell to Obama—our country’s most inclusive president
The audacious vision of a Chicago president changed politics as we knew it.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2017
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In the wake of the Facebook Live attack, we need to talk about black anger
Condemn the attack, but also understand the roots of black anger and violence done in Trump's name.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Jan 3, 2017
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Eight political New Year’s resolutions you can actually keep
Yes, they’re about politics—because now everything is political.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 28, 2016
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By helping young black fathers, Sheldon Smith has become a ‘hero’
The founder of the Bronzeville-based Dovetail Project is honored by CNN Heroes.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2016
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Angered by homicides, activists leave coffins at Rahm Emanuel’s home
“Behind each of these deaths is a failure,” activists said.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 13, 2016
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Moonlight urges the need for deep self-reflection
The Golden Globe-nominated film poses a simple but profound question.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 6, 2016
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Let’s ditch the Electoral College for the sake of minority voters
It might help bring disenfranchised or disillusioned voters back into the fold.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 5, 2016
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How Chicago activists sought to ‘decolonize’ Thanksgiving at Standing Rock
About a dozen or so people traveled to the still-contested Dakota Access Pipeline to show their solidarity with Native American protesters.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2016
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Activists disrupt Black Friday shopping on Chicago’s Mag Mile
Demonstrators called for resisting Donald Trump, Rahm Emanuel's resignation, and an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Nov 22, 2016
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Black Americans get a raw deal from Trump’s ‘new deal’ platform
Don’t believe the hype: Black lives still don’t matter to the president-elect.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Nov 16, 2016
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We don't need ‘unity’ after Trump's election. We need resistance.
He's #NotMyPresident.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2016
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No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women
Although black women were Hillary Clinton’s strongest block of support, in Chicago they expressed mixed feelings at the polls.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Nov 2, 2016
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Political parties need to get with the country’s changing demographics—or get left behind
The real takeaway from the 2016 presidential campaign
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 24, 2016
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How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre."
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 19, 2016
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What Trump’s boasts of assault and Julia Martin’s murder have in common
Both stem from male entitlement and toxic masculinity.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 10, 2016
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Activists won’t let Chicago forget that black trans lives matter
A community in pain rallies for TT Saffore, a black trans woman killed in Chicago last month.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Oct 4, 2016
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People who give racism a free pass are part of the Trump problem
A new poll suggests that most Americans are only too willing to overlook racism in their peers.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 29, 2016
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Without addressing racism, Mayor Emanuel's violence-prevention plan will fail
Systemic racial prejudice was the single-largest missing element from Rahm’s “major speech.”
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 21, 2016
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Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas
Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 14, 2016
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It’s time to shut down for-profit colleges once and for all
Schools like ITT Tech prey on poor students of color, breaking promises and shattering dreams.
