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What About Our Daughters? Breonna Taylor and Overlooking Women in The Movement

#Black Lives Matter! This phrase is resonating from every mountaintop to Hennepin County in Minneapolis, to every country from the Americas to Europe. Unfortunately,...

City View: Policing during a pandemic

Why are blacks residing on the south and west side of Chicago facing more arrests and fines for failing to social distance more than...

Opinion: “Karen”, Please Stop Using 911 Like It’s Your Personal Customer Service Line

What is old is new again: Modern-day "Karen’s" are direct descendants of Carolyn Bryant Donham.  Carolyn Bryant Donham is the white woman who admittedly lied...

The Crime of Breathing While Black

Almost every day, we wake up to the news of another African American being murdered or harassed by police officers, former law enforcement officers,...

Cyntoia Brown-Long: A Powerful Evening In Dialogue and The Impact of Sex Trafficking in Black Communities

Last Thursday at Mandel Hall on the University of Chicago's campus, author and activist for criminal justice reform, Cyntoia Brown-Long discussed her book, Free Cyntoia- My Search For Redemption in the American Prison System, with Dr. Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit and Arc and Hue. Brown-Long reflected on the impact of trafficking in Black communities in recognition of Human Trafficking Awareness Month. She also discussed what contributes to human trafficking, the injustices to women and children in the prison system, and her road to redemption.

Disgraced cops held kids at gunpoint, falsified search warrants

CHICAGO – Irene Simmons, Micaela Cruz, and Ms. Cruz’s minor children sued disgraced Chicago Police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo, former Officer David Salgado, and other...

Activists return to Mississippi with Jay-Z and other celebs to close Parchman

ROLLING OUT — A little over a week ago, the activist group Until Freedom, traveled from New York City to Jackson, Mississippi, in an...

Pastor allegedly stole $1 million from church to buy new Bentley

  A pastor in Chicago peddled religion for a payday. Rev. Clarence Smith, Jr. allegedly used his storefront church, New Life Impact Church in the...

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is Jan. 11, take it to the streets

Illinois DCFS joins the RTA Group, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Chicago Alumnae Chapter and community partners at annual Girls Night Out: A Stroll Through...

Victim of alleged torture by top Burge colleagues may win new trial today

After more than four years of hearings and 27 years behind bars, George Anderson, victim of alleged torture by prodigies of disgraced for CPD...
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