Category : Illinois

Civil Rights Lawyer rises from Peace Corps to sue White Supremacists

Mario Williams By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service Delma Jackson’s New Year’s morning started with a shocking photo on her cell phone—an image of a man’s beaten, bloodied, swollen face. He was so badly disfigured; she initially could not tell it wa...

Crime+Punishment Documentary Shows Racial Discrimination Inside the NYPD

By Marshelle R. Sanders Defender Contributing Writer Filmmaker Steven Maing captures a group of minority New York police officers as they come together to fight and expose racially discriminatory policing practices in a documentary, “Crime + Punis...

Senate Democrats Offer Little-to-No Opposition to Trump’s Expansion of Syria Bombings

Ninety-two percent of Senate Democrats and Independents failed to substantively dissent against Trump’s April 13 airstrikes. Senate Democrats and Independents are registering little opposition to President Donald Trump’s April 13 airstrikes on Syrian...

Chicago police target tickets in black neighborhoods

For consecutive years, data shows that the Chicago Police Department concentrates its bike enforcement codes in Black neighborhoods. It’s no surprise that criticism in 2017 fell on deaf ears because using the pretext of a minor offense is an easy wa...

West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is

“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’” “They’re trying to divide public employees against the rest of the working class." SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.VA.—After nine days of arriving at 7 a.m. to the pick...

Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election

April 16 | Web Exclusive Minneapolis police union president Lt. Bob Kroll told In These Times that he lobbied Minnesota lawmakers to advance a statewide law clamping down on protests—legislation that civil liberties advocates say targets Black Lives...

Intro: 66 Scriptural Reasons Why Trump Represents An Ungodly America

Our ancestors and forefathers likely never believed that the day would come when scriptural prophecy would be fulfilled right in front of our very eyes. It is not only right here, right now, but is showing itself up and out in living 6D color, wit...

The IRS forgives millions of debts from Gary schools

Crusader Staff Report Uncle Sam has a nice side to him after all. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has agreed to forgive a large chunk of debt of the Gary Community School Corp. The decision provides some relief to school officials and Emergency M...

Spelman College Glee Club to debut original mass music for St. Benedict the African Parish on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 1 p.m.

St. Benedict the African Parish The renowned choral group will perform in honor of the Feast Day of St. Benedict the Moor, which was April 4 In honor of the Feast Day of St. Benedict the Moor, members of Spelman College’s Glee Club will debut ori...