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• The CTA’s missing riders

  04-07-2024 21:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Abierre Minor has been a commuter since she was five years old, taking the 79 bus daily to her elementary school. Public transit has always been the main way she gets around the city but, over the past few years, she’s felt she can’t rely on it to get places on time. “Connectivity issues have […]
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• We Have the Power to Change the Election Outcome

  04-07-2024 14:30
  
  As I sat watching the recent debate, I was struck by the antiquated rhetoric used to describe African American employment as “Black jobs.” The notion that our careers can be distilled into such a dismissive term is not just insulting but a stark reminder of the deeply ingrained racism that continues to permeate our society. We are not a monolith. We are doctors, lawyers, engineers, educators, CEOs, and so much more. Our contributions to this country cannot be reduced to outdated ster
  
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• Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society

  04-07-2024 14:00
  
  Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Imagesby Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst
  Signed into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”
  Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I think the law’s most important lesson for today’s movements is not its content but rather
  
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• Star-cross’d lovers by daylight

  04-07-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Romeo and Juliet has been on my mind lately, ever since I saw the lovely made-in-Chicago indie film Ghostlight earlier this summer. In that movie, Dan, a middle-aged construction worker (Keith Kupferer), tries to work out his grief around a family tragedy by joining a community theater production of R and J. I came away […]
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