Chicago Defender Executive Editor

We all agree Justine Damond did not deserve to die. Neither did Philando Castile. Police officers killed both in the Minneapolis metro area. But will the outcome be the same?

He was behind bars for 9 years after a robbery conviction. He will soon be set free. Don't remember the case? Check out the...

"For criminal justice classes; for the academic world; for social workers; for sociologists; and for women who find themselves in the shoes I was once in," says Author Susan Burton.

Relief. Finally, enough lawmakers got over their partisan bickering to have a little compassion for those who are most hurt by the previous ongoing...

Have the fireworks leading up to July 4th and the day of the holiday gotten out of control?

A Chicago police officer and two former officers pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiring to cover up what happened the night a white officer killed McDonald by shooting him 16 times.

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Fifty years ago, the late Kelan Phil Cohran inspired a Black cultural awakening in Chicago at 63rd Street on the lakefront as the creative...

  We’ve had a few articles in the Defender about Blacks leaving the city for affordable housing or just a better life in the ’burbs....