• Review: Dust Bunny

    Dust Bunny in limited release in theaters
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  • Chicago Film Archives has preserved and digitized Bill Stamets’s Super 8 films

    Filmmaker Bill Stamets points at my notepad when he says, slowly, “Tom Palazzolo.” Palazzolo: experimental filmmaker, documentarian, and photographer, best-known for his honest and spirited portrayals of urban life in Chicago. He taught filmmaking for decades at Richard J. Daley College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Stamets points again—really points—when […]
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  • This Week In Black History December 24-30, 2025

     DECEMBER 241881—The Edgefield Exodus be­gins. More than 5,000 Blacks, driv­en in part by a wave of White vio­lence and economic exploitation, begin leaving Edgefield County, S.C., and resettled in Arkansas. The movement was also encouraged by people like Pap Singleton who believed Southern Blacks could enjoy a better life if they moved to the Midwest. It is also believed that some Whites also encouraged the exodus in a bid to reduce South Carolina’s Black populatio
  • ‘An impossible situation’

    Terrance has followed the same routine for years. Once a week, he leaves his family around 7 AM and drives to the Second District police station, a rectangular, two-story building of beige bricks at 51st and Wentworth in Chicago’s Fuller Park neighborhood. Inside, he joins a handful of other people sitting on worn wooden benches […]
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