Belonging in Chicago
One writer grapples with being part of a community while staying true to her blackness.
One writer grapples with being part of a community while staying true to her blackness.
What happens when you can’t see race? Writer Beth Finke is a WBEZ contributor who happens to be blind. “I can’t judge people by the way they look,” she writes. “Fat, skinny, beautiful, homely, …
Associate Professor Dr. Lisa Guerrero from Washington State University shares her analysis of the recent Trayvonning meme that places the internet thread in historical context.
Poet Demetrius Amparan was a 17-year-old senior at Morgan Park High School when he competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2008 representing his high school. As …
Music fans everywhere can agree that even though Hip Hop is not as effective as it used to be in terms of shedding light on social injustices. But one Hip Hop MC uses his own music as a way to …
Hear what four seniors at TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School had to say when they competed in the Spring 2012 Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival.
Twenty years on from the publication of Studs Terkel’s Race, Black says class issues have become central to the issue of race in Chicago.
A recent report that the Pew Center released about Asian-Americans, stating that they are more educated and have higher incomes, was rejected by groups such as the National Council of Asian Pacific …
Poet Christian Robinson was an 18-year-old senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School when he competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2011 representing his …