South Side Weekly
WEB4 days ago · Community newspaper by and for Chicago's South Side. Arts, Culture, Politics. Est. 2013.
The Narratives of Robeson High School
WEBThe Lisagor award-winning project would not have been possible without you. By sharing your experiences at Robeson High School with us, we were able to put together an hour-long radio program tracing through Robeson's 40-year history, a special issue of South Side Weekly newspaper devoted to the stories you told us, and an archive.
Op-Ed: How Undocumented Chicagoans Are Ensuring a True …
WEBFeb 23, 2021 · This victory towards making Chicago a true sanctuary was made possible by “inside/outside” organizing led by undocumented Chicagoans over the past five years. The inclusion of exceptions in our city’s sanctuary ordinance short-circuited our Constitution’s due process protections. The exceptions left unprotected individuals with ...
About South Side Weekly
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Fifty Years of Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition - South Side …
WEBSep 27, 2019 · C hicago-style coalition-building helped to produce the first Black mayor of Chicago and put its first Latinx representatives in office. Some even believe its legacy led to the election of the city’s first Black woman mayor. But unbeknownst to many, this form of organizing started in the streets fifty years ago with what was called the “Rainbow Coalition”: a progressive, fundamentally ...
Documenting the Past – South Side Weekly
WEBIn 2014, the building caught on fire and was demolished. . Martin Gonzalez is a documenter of abandoned buildings around Chicago, fascinated by old places and imagining the moments of their past. This is his first piece for the Weekly. More of his photographs can be found on Flickr under the username Nitram242.
Byproduct Blues - South Side Weekly
WEBApr 30, 2014 · Byproduct Blues. by Ari Ephraim Feldman April 30, 2014. LUKE WHITE. LUKE WHITE. Spring finally came to Chicago about a month ago, turning the lake from gray to blue and exposing endless lawns of dead grass. On the Southeast Side, along the banks of the Calumet River, the warmer weather slowly turned several large hills …
Bigger Than a Building – South Side Weekly
WEBJan 7, 2020 · Bigger Than a Building. by Gabe Levine-Drizin January 7, 2020. On a recent cold December day, a crowd of activists, journalists, and Black Panthers gathered in front of 2337 West Monroe Street, two blocks west of the United Center, to remember the fifty-year anniversary of the West Side police raid that killed Illinois Black Panther Party ...
What Happened May 30?
WEBOn May 30, there were 494 arrests citywide, including for disorderly conduct (373), civil unrest (414), looting (28), and firearms (16). Eighty-five officers reported being injured on duty that day. And between May 29 and June 4 more than 250 complaints were filed against CPD with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · This story was produced for WTTW’S FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago.South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis covering the impact racial divisions have on individuals, the city ...