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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 25, 2020
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The caste party
Trump and Rahm play to white fears of Black people.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 24, 2018
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Having Our Say is a fitting tribute to the indomitable Delany sisters
Bessie and Sadie Delany celebrate more than a century of badassery.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 27, 2018
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Court Theatre’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is tasteful, digestible—and unnecessary
A new adaptation ignores the realities of Jim Crow America in favor of spreading its message of love.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 1, 2017
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Who’s Alice Childress? We should all know
The civil rights-era playwright’s Wedding Band is an indispensable look at what we’ve been missing.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2017
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Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains
Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2016
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What does Nat Turner have to say to today’s America?
On the culture's current preoccupation with the eras of slavery and Jim Crow in the U.S.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2016
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Civil disobedience isn't the right way to take down Donald Trump
The candidate's political success requires a political response.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2015
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South Carolina is more educated about its history than you might think
Did public educatiion in South Carolina lead to the vote to furl the battle flag?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2015
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Does the south understand its heritage?
Reflections on the battle flag and same-sex marriage
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2015
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Why didn't the Confederate battle flag go the way of the swastika?
So far the Stars and Bars have enjoyed a much gentler fate.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2014
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A rite and a writ—a good week for gay marriage
A gay couple from Wisconsin marry in Chicago as the Seventh Circuit strikes down that state's constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Sun 2/2: Super Bowl parties, Ephebophilia, and "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow"
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, February 2
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 27, 2014
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Solidarity in the American south in "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow"
A new exhibit at the DuSable Museum looks at young African-American scholars in the Jim Crow era—and the German Jewish refugees who became their teachers.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2013
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A tale of two minstrel shows
A teacher at West Chicago High School said he'd planned a student minstrel show to start a conversation about racism. Was he serious?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2013
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George Will's interesting idea of what made liberalism go bad
The idea: The myth of JFK's assassination ruined liberalism.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2013
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2011
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A couple of judges on criminal justice
John Paul Stevens and Richard J. Posner review William Stuntz's "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice."
- Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2010
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Maddow vs. Paul
Rand Paul loses the first round, takes the second against Rachel Maddow.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 22, 2010
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Black Like Him
Fifty years ago John Howard Griffin traveled the south disguised as an African-American man.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 22, 2010
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Bearing Witness
After decades of silence, Simeon Wright finally recounts the night his cousin Emmett Till was martyred.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2009
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Not on my street
The city that licked Martin Luther King Jr.
