• Lookingglass Marks 104th Anniversary of Race Riots with ‘Sunset 1919’

    Lookingglass Marks 104th Anniversary of Race Riots with ‘Sunset 1919’
    Photos by Tacuma Roeback
    There is an origin story in Chicago so potent and pervasive that its effects not only reverberate through time but, because of its occurrence, healing and reconciliation remain necessary to this day. 
    The originating event is the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which claimed 25 Black lives and 13 White ones. The riot remained the worst incident of racial violence in the city’s history, one of 25 nationwide disruptions that occurred that summer where White people pe
  • Ben Jealous: Preserving a Mother and Son’s Story

    Ben Jealous: Preserving a Mother and Son’s Story
    By Ben Jealous
    At the heart of the story that President Biden preserved last week by creating our newest national monument are a mother and son, Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till.
    That’s especially moving for me because so much of my understanding of what the Tills endured and why their story remains essential today comes from my own mom’s experiences.
    Like Emmett, she was in her early teens in 1955 and growing up in West Baltimore. The ritual he was taking part in by traveling from

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