The radical Black collective’s art and politics are keenly relevant fifty years later
Dr. Reuben Miller exposes the unforgiving nature of living with a criminal record in a way that begs for change.
Oppositional Mexican migrants—liberals, traditionalists, and radicals—were responsible for the construction of Chicagoland Mexican identities and their politics in the early twentieth century
A new memoir about the AIDS crisis reveals the flaws and benefits of a clinician’s detachment
Lee Weiner’s memoir Conspiracy to Riot offers lessons from a life lived in activism
Three new books explore how Black fortunes were built and lost in the first half of the twentieth century
Simon Balto’s history of police in Black Chicago shows why CPD can’t be reformed