Category : Illinois

Trump’s Heartless Honduras Policy, in 15 Numbers

By revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Trump administration is sending Honduran immigrants back to a nation in crisis. All evidence suggests that the country is still dangerous—and it’s partly the United States’ fault. The Trump administ...

John Legend becomes first Black man to earn EGOT status

Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Tim Rice at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys By Derrick Bryson Taylor John Legend has made history again. The “Ordinary People” singer became the first black man to earn the coveted EGOT — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony...

Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids

As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services. According to a recent University of Michigan study, water bills in the Detroit metro area av...

Black Feminism Will Save Us All

Why we desperately need real intersectional feminism. Radical political organizing rooted in intersectionality is offering a transformative vision of the world. Over the past decade, many feminists, especially young feminists, have embraced interse...

NFL Player Brandon Marshall Absent From 2018 Season Opener National Anthem

Staying in line with the NFL’s new national anthem policy, Denver Broncos inside linebacker Brandon Marshall remained in the locker room during the singing of the national anthem for the Denver Broncos’ season opener against the Seattle Seahawks to...

How Radical Black Socialists Paved the Way for Andrew Gillum and Other Left Insurgents

Gillum and other left challengers are winning on an economic agenda pushed for decades by black-led social movements. While they have yet to call for the total overthrow of corporate power, each of these candidates has drawn from the political and i...

We Are Witnessing the Last Gasps of Centrism

While the Democratic establishment is blindly attempting to revive the neoliberal Third Way, the party’s base is embracing socialism. The party’s centrist wing is terrified. The political enterprise they’ve spent their careers building runs counter...

Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago

A conversation with writer and organizer, Mariame Kaba. "We need to care for each other in real ways. We need to ensure that the commons are built up so that we can actually use the commons for addressing the needs of the most marginalized within ou...

Will Mexico’s New President Declare Independence From the United States?

At public forums, Mexicans are pushing Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break with the U.S. on migration and drug policy. Forum attendees’ recommendations included increasing support for Mexican migrants deported from the United States and repealing t...

Indigenous Women Rise Against Jerry Brown’s Climate Half-Measures

Ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, organizers prepare to advocate more radical solutions. “Nobody inside the summit wants to talk about leaving fossil fuels in the ground or reducing our energy consumption." This Saturday,...

Seeking Justice for Laquan McDonald—Without Relying on Prisons

Locking up killer cop, Jason Van Dyke, won’t address the root cause of his violence. How do we remain steadfast in resisting the police state, rather than relying on it to punish its own agents? This week, the landmark trial of officer Jason Van Dy...

Rehabilitating a Monster: George W. Bush and the Bankruptcy of Civility Politics

On the laundering of a war criminal. One would think that history would have long destroyed any semblance of nostalgia for George W. Bush, but the political fanfiction abounds—in spite of it. The death of an American statesman adds a new volume to...

Mayor 1% Rahm Emanuel Will Not Be Missed in Chicago

Emanuel will be remembered for his arrogance, impatience and disregard for regular Chicagoans. In the Windy City, Emanuel will always be remembered by many as Mayor 1%. On July 7, more than a thousand Chicagoans marched onto the Dan Ryan Expressway...

After Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Nightmare, the Next Chicago Mayor Must Embrace Reparations

Emanuel’s pro-corporate policies ravaged Black and Latinx communities across Chicago. His successor will be tasked with reversing this trend. The next mayor needs to aggressively raise revenue from the wealthy parts of the city in order to repair th...

Portrait of the Environmentalist as a Young Arsonist

Abby Geni’s new novel, The Wildlands, explores means and ends in the fight for animal and Earth liberation. In animal advocacy, women are the vast majority of vegans and activists, while the underground rescue and eco-sabotage cultures are notably m...

What is the Black Church’s Role in Advancing African American Wealth?

NAACP Set to Change Tax Status to Engage Politically