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WEBForty Years of ‘Democrats for Palestine’ Continues to Confront Familiar Repression. In 1984, James Zogby referenced Israeli “occupation” for the first time on a convention stage. Treatment of the issue at DNC 2024 leaves lifelong Democrats re-evaluating their strategy for Palestinian liberation. August 29, 2024.
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 ...
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.
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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.
The Underpinnings of Drill – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 11, 2022 · Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy. $27.95. Princeton University Press. 288 pages. . Bobby Vanecko is a contributor to the Weekly. He last wrote about Meaghan Garvey’s short story collection ‘Nowhere Fast.’. Tagged: author interview book review …
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 ...
Nowhere Fast: An excerpt from the short story collection
WEBJun 10, 2021 · T hroughout the pandemic, I, like many others, found myself overwhelmed and depressed by constantly “doom scrolling” the news of what’s going on in the world every day. As a result, I tried to read more fiction to distract myself. One of my favorite new books that I read this past year is Nowhere Fast, a self-published collection of short stories by Chicago-based writer Meaghan Garvey.
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