Mike and Victor: A family story
In 1993, a cocky and successful real estate agent was ordered by his boss to take one day off each week. He decided to volunteer at an orphanage. What he didn’t expect was that a 9-year-old boy …
ListenDept. of Education: School districts can use race-based policies to avoid segregation
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights says it wants to remind school districts that they can use race in their admissions policies. That came in response to an analysis by WBEZ …
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Greater Segregation For Region’s Black, Latino Students
For white students in suburban Chicago, school has become a much more diverse place in the last 20 years. But the region has seen a jump during that time in the number of highly segregated black and …
Where are you from?
Teresa Puente describes herself as “a brown-skinned Chicana.” “People have guessed that I am from many places, including Venezuela, India, Morocco, Turkey and Guatemala,” she writes. “They never …
Students Reflect On 13 Years Of Segregated Schooling
In Chicago and the suburbs, a quarter of a million black and Latino children go to schools where more than 90 percent of students come from their same race. For our ongoing series on race, reporter …
ListenLouder Than a Bomb: Forgotten
Poet Samuel Carroll was a 17-year-old junior at Lincoln Park High School when he competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago. …
ListenElgin Latinos: Big in number but not in representation
Elgin, like many other Chicago suburbs, saw huge demographic changes the last twenty years. But you would never be able to tell that nearly half of the city is now Latino if you look at who’s …
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