Angelica Sanchez, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Angelica Sanchez, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com 32 32 163009088 TCR Talks: Tuley Park Comets helped plant baseball roots on South Side https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-talks-tuley-park-comets-helped-plant-baseball-roots-south-side/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/tcr-talks-tuley-park-comets-helped-plant-baseball-roots-south-side/ Jackie Robinson West's journey to the U.S. Little League Championship title was paved by teams like the 1959 Tuley Park Comets, the first all-African-American team to win the Chicago Park District Little League title.

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]]> 7821 Chicago groups take child refugee issue to inter-American human rights commission https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-groups-take-child-refugee-issue-inter-american-human-rights-commission/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/chicago-groups-take-child-refugee-issue-inter-american-human-rights-commission/ Two Chicago-based organizations are asking an international human rights commission to examine the U.S. government’s treatment of thousands of unaccompanied minors who’ve entered this country from Mexico and Central America. Last week, a petition was filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the National Immigrant Justice Center and the National Alliance […]

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]]> 7816 ‘Another senseless killing of a young black man’ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/another-senseless-killing-young-black-man/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/another-senseless-killing-young-black-man/ Calls for an independent probe of the shooting death of an unarmed, African-American teenager in suburban St. Louis have been heard. The FBI is launching an investigation into why a police officer pulled a gun on Michael Brown, an 18-year-old who was supposed to start college today. Brown’s death has sparked anger and frustration in […]

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]]> 7776 Civil rights priest, photographer: ‘There’s so much work left to do’ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/civil-rights-priest-photographer-theres-so-much-work-left-to-do/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/civil-rights-priest-photographer-theres-so-much-work-left-to-do/ In 1965, Bernard Kleina joined the civil rights movement by heeding the call for clergy to join the march in Selma. He continued as a photographer, capturing Dr. King and key moments in history.

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]]> 7756 City drops appeal, will release police misconduct complaints https://www.chicagoreporter.com/city-drops-appeal-will-release-police-misconduct-complaints/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/city-drops-appeal-will-release-police-misconduct-complaints/ The City of Chicago is finally giving up – police misconduct complaints and the fight to keep them under wraps. An Illinois appeals court ruled in March that police misconduct complaints — both the original records and the Chicago Police Department’s electronic log of them — are subject to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. […]

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