We Charge Genocide
Activists allege torture in a report to the U.N.
Dominique Franklin, “Damo” to friends, was twenty-three-years-old when he died. He spent the last two weeks of his life in a coma at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being tased multiple times by a Chicago police officer. Witnesses, speaking anonymously to the Tribune, said he’d been turning to run away.
Activism
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Police
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Interviews
Mariame Kaba
This delegation, we think, is the first ever delegation of young people of color, certainly ever to present to the Committee Against Torture, and maybe to present in any of those kinds of forums before. So that’s also significant, in and of itself: who is going.
Activism
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Police
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Interviews
Todd St. Hill
People of color in general are disproportionately affected by police brutality, and in Chicago you have young people of color, ninety-two percent of taser uses involved black and Latino targets, forty-nine were ages eight to sixteen. I think those numbers are devastating.
KIRAN MISRA. A protestor at Daley Plaza on October 22, 2014 at the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.
Kicking the Pigeon
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at about 5pm, Diane Bond, a forty-eight-year-old mother of three, stepped out of her eighth-floor apartment in 3651 S. Federal, the last remaining highrise at the Stateway Gardens public housing development, and encountered three white men.
Extending the Track
Forty-six years ago at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos sped down the 200-meter track, winning gold and bronze for America with times of 19.83 and 20.1 seconds, respectively. At the podium after the race, Smith and Carlos lowered their heads and raised their fists.
Space and Place
“PLAT | FORMS” at the Incubator
The word “laboratory” conjures images of test tubes, chemicals, beakers, and white coats. Place Lab, however, is a very different type of laboratory—one that reimagines spaces.
Organization supports Hyde Park Seniors
“We were all involved in social movements when we were younger, and now as we’re getting older we’re seeing a new social issue and are forming a new movement.”