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How a Black Community Theater Helped Transform an Artist and Her Art.

Mackenzie Tatananni | Chicago Reporter — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:18:06 +0000

“I’ve had many really beautiful experiences. But that doesn’t mean that my gas wasn’t cut off over the years, or that I didn’t get my car repoed once or twice,” Dorian Sylvain said, laughing. The Chicago-based multi-hyphenate—artist, curator, and educator—sat behind a desk in her light-soaked Kenwood gallery, surrounded by scattered canvases and paper collages […]

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Winthrop Family and Black Resilience on the North Side of Chicago

Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:19:33 +0000

“My grandmother said we looked like flies in buttermilk,” said Sharon Giles, describing her experience of living as an African American on the north side of Chicago, surrounded by a sea of whiteness. While segregation of African Americans on the south side of Chicago, through racially restrictive covenants and redlining, is well-known and has been […]

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20 Years After 09/11, Anti-Arab Imperialist Racism Is Alive And Well

The Chicago Reporter — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:53:25 +0000

The idea that anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism started after September 11, 2001, is one thing many progressives get wrong. At least since the late 1970s, the U.S. government has been racially profiling Arab immigrant activists through surveillance and the corporate media has been portraying Arabs as savage misogynists. This racial profiling continued through the Clinton […]

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Latino Chicagoans Kick Off Independence Celebrations With Flag-Waving Caravans

The Chicago Reporter — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:42:48 +0000

It may come as a surprise to people in other parts of the country that the Midwest, being so far from the coasts and so far from the Rio Bravo, has a robust Latino population. But here, it’s a well-known fact that Chicago has been a city of migrants for more than a century and […]

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Many Puerto Ricans See Solidarity With Palestinians

Hugo Balta — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:40:00 +0000

Thunderous battles escalate in the skies above Israel and the ground below Gaza City, as the Israeli-Palestinian crisis continues to unleash death and destruction. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are marching on the streets of Chicago and across the United States condemning what they say is indiscriminate bombing by Israel. Among the hundreds of “Free Palestine” […]

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