Posts Tagged ‘Chicago’
Judge 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.
Read More118 Black Men Tortured On His Watch–Less Than 4 Years of Jailtime
Chicago police commander Jon Burge oversaw brutal torture of black men in custody, extracting false confessions that resulted in them spending decades in prison.
Read MoreBlack History Document Found in Chicago Home Before Demolition
The diploma of the first black man to become a USC professor was luckily saved before the building it was in was demolished.
Read MoreHull-House Museum Exhibit Explores a Chicago Gang’s History and Impact
Museum goers have another option in Chicago to learn about the city’s gang history, including the Conservative Vice Lords.
Read MoreChicago Charter School Boasts 100 Percent Graduation Rate for Third Consecutive Year
One Chicago school continues its track record for excellence and commitment to helping Black students, especially boys.
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