The new compilation No Other Love shines a light on a self-reliant strain of midwest gospel that’s survived outside the mainstream for more than 50 years.
Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.
"We may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans," Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. "But we stand to discover much about ourselves in such a discussion."