On a Wednesday in late February the sound of four-on-the-floor beats and hypnotic basslines wafted through the halls of ...

The dismantling of BET+ and what It means when Black America loses control of its own story Last Friday, Paramount confirmed what many of us feared was coming: BET+, the standalone streaming service ...

The dismantling of BET+ and what It means when Black America loses control of its own story Last Friday, Paramount confirmed what many of us feared was coming: BET+, the standalone streaming service ...

The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. On ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference announcing the findings of the Justice Department’s yearlong civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department on Jan. 13, 2017, flanked by ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, held about 1,750 female inmates as of July 2018. Credit: Photo by Bill Healy During her twenty years in an Illinois prison, Monica Cosby received ...

Quaid Stephens, 44, has nine job training certificates, but has had a hard time finding a job because of his criminal record. His story is not unusual in many West Side communities where unemployment ...

As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...

Ian Haney- López, a constitutional law scholar, discusses his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics,” at the University of Chicago in November 2014. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago ...