Special Report: Lori Lightfoot & Chicago’s New Factionalism
byA new comprehensive report shows how former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, faced with one of the worst pandemics and economic crises in the city’s history,…
Politics
Oral History of Chicago’s Civil Rights Movement…
byRev. Brian E. Smith is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Chicago Theological Seminary and pastor of the North Shore Faith Community Church. He…
Suggestions for Chicago on Migrants
byMigrants are being sent to major cities, New York and Chicago, seemingly for destruction and to exhaust resources. Mayor Eric Adams of New York…
Illinois Cannabis Funding Covers All Criminal Record Expungements
byAt 1:00 p.m. on a Thursday in late May, the courtroom of Associate Judge Lakshmi Jha is about to come to order. The 49-year-old…
Gangsta Trump!
byDonald John Trump, former President of the United States, “Number 45“, will go down in history as the most controversial and dangerous President of…
To God Be The Glory!
byReverend Martin Deppe is one of the founding members of Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference headed by Dr….
America’s New Black Codes…
byBlack Codes and Jim Crow laws were passed at different periods in the Southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power…
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Pivot. . .
byThe Reverend Jesse Jackson announced right before the Rainbow Push 57th Annual Convention that he was going to “pivot.” Meaning that his day-to-day role…
Now What? Time to Resist the Supreme Court’s Attack on Affirmative Action…
byThis decision is wacky. For reasons more political than judicial, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Harvard and the U. of North Carolina…
American-ism
byAmerica is a country divided: one white America and one Black America. Minorities follow the Black path. Mr. Obama said In his presidential propelling…
Q&A – How Should We Celebrate Juneteenth?
by“What to a slave is the Fourth of July?“ Frederick Douglas In 2021 President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into…
Chicago’s Unwelcomed Guest…
byWhile in office, former Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot asked Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop sending migrants to our city. Around 100 migrants…