When strength, resilience and #BlackGirlMagic is a burden
When Lincoln University administrator Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey took her own life last month, the news broke the internet, a family friend said
At the helm
Before more than a dozen black youths giddily hopped aboard the boat in 59th Street Harbor on a warm summer Saturday, they
Vanessa Perry DeReef calls peace workers she trains ‘superheroes’: ‘When you come here, it recharges your cape’
Don’t be afraid of the loud boom when you’re walking past a second-floor Kennedy-King College classroom in Englewood on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Repairing homes as a form of public art, Tonika Lewis Johnson helps Englewood reinvest in the disinvested
Segregation. Redlining. Land sale contracts, where real estate speculators in the 1950s and ’60s sold homes to Black families on rent-to-own contracts
‘Falling is easier when it’s with friends’: FroSkate offers skateboard sisterhood for those underrepresented in the sport
Tuesday nights at Chicago skate parks are long, but exhilarating for the members of froSkate. It’s boisterously energetic, but in a mellow, “do you”
Volunteers create Black Lives Matter memorial under the Red Line in Rogers Park with the names of people killed by police
On a brisk Sunday morning, half a dozen people congregate under the Red Line tracks at the intersection of Glenwood and Farwell
Chicago is known as a great town for theater, but does that mean theater here is for everybody?
On an October evening a small crowd of theater-goers get to meet Christopher Boone, the central character of the play, “The Curious
Civil rights legend Timuel Black lived 102 years. The Chicago community says he made good use of his time. He ‘witnessed history, made history and wrote the history book.’
Of the stories that Timuel Dixon Black Jr. told or relayed to generations that have come through the South Side of Chicago,
How can white people be Black allies? Steven Rogers offers specifics in ‘A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues’
Steven Rogers’s new book, “A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black
Black women defined the 2020 election, and change is coming. Chicago’s Black women leaders are ready to make it happen.
Our nation is at a critical juncture. We voted for change in the White House at the same time that experts say
