Posts Tagged ‘Chicago’
Rapper Noname opens Radical Hood Library in Los Angeles
After several months of construction, rapper Noname finally opened up her Radical Hood Library.
Read MoreChicago Suburb Shapes Reparations for Black Residents: ‘It Is the Start’
Officials in Evanston, Ill., are weighing how to distribute $10 million in reparations to those who suffered housing discrimination.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter movement street art, murals see a surge
Two months after Chicago and the nation erupted in protest of George Floyd’s killing by a white police officer in Minneapolis, a growing number of signs of the Black Lives Matter movement can be found around Chicago in the form of murals and street art.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Chicago removes Columbus statue
Chicago removed a Christopher Columbus statue from the city’s lakefront Grant Park before dawn Friday, a week after protesters tried to topple it.
Read MoreJudge Acquits Officers for Covering Up Laquan McDonald Murder
By Michael Harriot, The Root Again. Two months after a jury found Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, a judge decided that the police officers whose remarkably similar false accounts of the incident delayed justice for more than four years were not guilty of trying to…
Read MoreVideo Shows Chicago Cop Shooting Unarmed Black Teen With A Disability
A civilian oversight agency has released a series of videos from 2017 that show an off-duty Chicago police officer shooting and wounding an unarmed black teen, Ricardo Hayes, who has an intellectual disability.
Read More‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum
Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching activist whose name is often forgotten. Her great-granddaughter is looking to change that. This article details how activists are remembering Wells.
Read MoreRacist emails show Chicago official joked about “safari tour” to see violence in black neighborhoods
The prevalence of racism as an imbedded culture in the workplace, continues to rear its ugly head in Chicago’s Water Department. Using company computers for personal expenditures and defamatory, derogatory, and insensitive emails is now a subject of investigation of staff of the Chicago water department.
Read MoreChicago Violence Requires A Real Commitment, Not A Passing Presidential Tweet
A video clip and reflections by Rev. Al Sharpton on gun violence in Chicago and the need for real commitment to address this problem.
Read MoreChicago’s Grim Era of Police Torture
The Chicago Torture Archive, an online research repository set to open early next year, provides a chilling insight into the grisly period from the 1970s to the 1990s when the Chicago Police Department’s infamous torture crew rounded up more than 100 African-American men who were shocked with cattle prods, beaten with telephone books and suffocated with plastic bags until many confessed to crimes.
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