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- Music, The Listener Feb 15, 2021
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James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” is unfortunately relevant again
This Presidents’ Day, dance away your disillusionment with a 1974 funk classic about beating political corruption.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 16, 2020
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Grave robbers
Hey, MAGA, stop using Dr. King to justify police brutality.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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The Mountaintop depicts a very human Martin Luther King Jr. on the eve of his assassination
Have we reached the promised land he died fighting for?
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 21, 2019
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Archive dive: Blvck Vrchives remembers Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on Chicago
"Dr. King's dreams can still be heard echoing through the streets of Chicago in vigils, parades, protests, murals, and strolls along King Drive."
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 4, 2018
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Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS forever.
Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education
- Music, The Block Beat Mar 22, 2018
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How a south-side church taught rapper and activist Ric Wilson to fight back
He grew up attending Fellowship Missionary Baptist, one of the black congregations that nurtured the civil rights movement.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2018
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Durbin challenges Trump to prove he's not racist with a compromise on the ‘Dreamers,’ and other Chicago news
Also, a record 55 million tourists visited Chicago in 2017.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 1, 2017
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A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day
An exhibit at the Westside Center for Justice demonstrates how little things have changed when it comes to racism and the surveillance state.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
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Chicago-born Muslim Indian soul singer Zeshan B calls for black and brown unity
This week Zeshan B celebrates his debut solo album, Vetted, which blends Indo-Pakistani music and American soul.
- News & Politics, Feature Mar 1, 2017
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The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago
Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 23, 2017
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Opposition to affordable housing in Jefferson Park is nothing new for Chicago
The city has a long history of opposition to real estate developments perceived as a conduit for African-American families, especially poor ones, to move into white neighborhoods.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 2, 2017
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James Baldwin: Voice of a preacher, heart of a nomad
Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro looks at the writer who brought his own religious issues to the civil rights movement.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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Fifty years after Dr. King’s march in Marquette Park, racial integration remains elusive in Chicago
The park no longer is a symbol of bigotry, but it isn’t a success story either.
- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2016
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
- Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2016
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A visual history of the black vote
In this election year, we look back at the history of black voter mobilization in Chicago and in the south.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 4, 2016
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Remembering Dr. King's impact on Chicago on the anniversary of his assassination
The Reader and Blvck Vrchives founder/curator Renata Cherlise collaborated on this reflection on Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2016
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Chicago cops purposely blocked audio on dash-cam videos, Homan Square scandal gets even more interesting, and other Chicago news
Also, Mavis Staples enlists interesting new collaborators, and the media wonders whether Governor Rauner has a state e-mail address.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 18, 2016
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What it means to #ReclaimMLK
Black Youth Project 100 and other groups want to reassert the “radical ideas” of the slain civil rights leader.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2015
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Medill resigned. Daley didn't. And Rahm?
Mayoral resignations are rare in Chicago. That hasn’t deterred protesters and politicians looking to change the course of history.
- News & Politics, Zoom in Mar 8, 2014
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Zoom in: River North
Adam Brooks's Freedom Wall—which features a list of 69 seemingly random famous names—has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron for nearly 20 years.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Jan 27, 2014
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A new Staple Singers biography doesn't quite take you there
Tribune critic Greg Kot follows the march toward freedom for a family of protest-music royalty—but gets lost along the way.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Mon 1/27: Myrlie Evers-Williams, Weyes Blood, and "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propoganda"
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 27
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 15, 2013
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The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in
A new film project tries to capture the life of the physician who takes care of Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 18, 2013
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Still climbing toward The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall's play, Martin Luther King Jr. faces his own Gethsemane.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 4, 2013
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
A half century since its premiere, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece is still a potent indictment of an unequal society.