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Kofi Ademola

Posted inOpinion & Editorials

Opinion: Black and Brown Youth Need Commitment, Not Criminalization

by Kofi Ademola and Reynia Jackson May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

y first time speaking in front of the City Council, with Mayor Richard M. Daley at the helm, was in the 1990s as a teenager arguing against the so-called anti-gang ordinance.  What I didn’t know then was how this racist policy was connected to a long historical arc of Chicago controlling, regulating and brutalizing young […]

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