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Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer

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Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - September 11, 2019

Musician Larry Taylor remembers a time when blues music echoed from the clubs that used to sit on the now-vacant lots on Roosevelt Road. “Right...

Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - August 26, 2019

“Why don’t I have any real power?” sang dozens of Chicago Police recruits and justice-involved youth in a chorus. Facing them, another group of...

Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - August 20, 2019

The lawn of the South Shore Cultural Center was nearly packed. Zeke Locke and The NuXperience were pumping up the crowd with their modern...

Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - August 15, 2019

A dancer breaking chains. A woman made of petals, painted red by menstrual blood. The words “I am a revolutionary” framed by flowers. Those are...

Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - May 13, 2019

A week before Mother’s Day, formerly incarcerated moms and their allies stood in solidarity with women in jails and prisons and talked about the...

Pat Nabong, Contributing Writer - May 10, 2019

50 men dressed in suits and ties strutted and strode into a banquet hall in downtown Chicago as their family members clapped and whistled...