Interview with Mel Reynolds - The Chicago Reporter
WEBSep 28, 2007 · Interview with Mel Reynolds. by The Chicago Reporter September 28, 2007. Several days after his transfer from the Federal Correctional Center at Butner, N.C. to a halfway house on Chicago’s near West Side, former U.S. Rep. Melvin J. Reynolds talked to The Chicago Reporter’s Carlos Hernández Gómez by telephone about his federal case.
Instead of extending the Red Line, some see promise in the Metra ...
WEBJun 11, 2018 · Uncertainty around federal funding to extend the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line to the city’s southern limits has sparked discussions on whether to build the $2.3 billion extension at all or find alternatives to improve transit for Far South Side residents.. In January, the city announced the final alignment for the 5.3 mile extension to 130 th Street.
Setting the historical record straight for the critics of The New York ...
WEBAug 28, 2019 · Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia, and the legacy of slavery in the U.S. “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed,” the introduction said.
As police commander’s trial nears, a ‘black in blue’ legacy is in the ...
WEBOct 19, 2015 · When the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League was founded in 1968, it sought to be a buffer between the Chicago Police Department and the city’s African-American community.. The nascent Black Power movement was transforming the consciousness of black youth, and in response to police violence, African-Americans were demanding a …
How the Chicago Police Department fought - The Chicago Reporter
WEBAug 28, 2019 · After 14 months of requests, follow-ups, delays, denials, mix-ups, appeals and a legal opinion from the Illinois Attorney General, the Chicago Police Department finally complied with our request to release detailed records on police personnel.. On July 31, CPD turned over a spreadsheet of 33,280 current and former Chicago police officers dating back to the mid-1940s, including names, badge ...
Chicago’s 250 Year History of Segregation
WEBAug 30, 2023 · Chicago’s 250 Year History of Segregation. The first article in this series on financial disparities in Cook County, “Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap,” discussed the extent of contemporary racial inequities in the County. Black and Latinx Cook County residents are more likely to be financially vulnerable than Black and Latinx ...
Ángel Díaz, Author at The Chicago Reporter
WEBSep 10, 2020 · Ángel Díaz is counsel in the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice where his work focuses on the intersection of technology with civil rights and civil liberties.
Bad police fingerprint work undermines Chicago property crime …
WEBMar 12, 2019 · Today, the Chicago police latent print unit works on fingerprints from property crime cases and any other cases “they deem necessary for their department,” according to a statement from the Illinois State Police. City records show the Chicago police department currently is staffed by nine latent print examiners.
Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy - The Chicago Reporter
WEBMay 23, 2019 · When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher at what was to become the nation’s first all-boys public charter high school, the school’s faculty and staff had one central goal.. We were on a mission to get black boys from Englewood – a racially segregated and economically distressed neighborhood in Chicago, and a community described in the media as one of the ...
History of Chicago Public Schools - The Chicago Reporter
WEBLearn about the history of CPS from 1837 to 2010, including the challenges and changes in education, segregation, integration, and reform. Find out how CPS responded to the needs of students, teachers, and communities in different periods and contexts.
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