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BULLETIN Starting with this issue, the Weekly will use this space to highlight political and civic events happening across the South Side. City on the Make Professor of American History and Culture at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Andrew Diamond tours the South Side with a series of lectures and panel discussions at the UofC and […]

STAGE AND SCREEN Coates at the DuSable It’s been a big year for writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. A senior editor at The Atlantic and regular blogger on the magazine’s website, Coates captured popular attention with his June 2014 Atlantic cover story, “The Case for Reparations.”  The piece, a year and a half in the making, examined […]

VISUAL ARTS Science / Fiction Chicagoans have pioneered in the fields of science and fiction, so it only makes sense that the two would eventually merge in the form of an art exhibition featuring the new work of Ryan Thompson, Kimberly Kim, Noa Dolberg, and Reuven Israel. Their pieces play with humor, forms of observation, […]

STAGE & SCREEN The Retrieval and The Way of the Jegna It’s not every evening that one gets to travel back to 1864 for an hour and a half before returning to the present to hear from two empowering modern voices, but the DuSable Museum’s October 23 film and lecture pairing promises just that. The […]

Bulletin From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Wednesday, April 6, 7pm–8:30pm. Free. Register in advance at bit.ly/25p2EBc. (773) 583-7884. haymarketbooks.org A concern with race and a concern with class are sometimes presented as contradictory. Academic and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor suggests instead that class power cannot be unsettled until racial […]

Bulletin Donation from Englewood to Flint Make a monetary donation to: Teamwork Englewood, 815 W. 63rd St., 2nd Fl. c/o From Englewood to Flint. For item drop-off locations see: bit.ly/1VQ5zhT. Donations open until Saturday, April 23. (773) 488-6600. englewoodportal.org Multiple organizations in Englewood are calling for action to help vulnerable residents suffering from the public […]

Bulletin Nonprofit Radio Station Interest Meeting What kind of work goes into creating a radio station—not just a show, but an entire station—from scratch? Bridgeport’s Public Media Institute, the same institute that puts out periodicals like Proximity Magazine, runs the Co-Prosperity School, and coordinates the annual Version Festival, was given a license by the Federal […]

BULLETIN Lessons From Ferguson Following the tragic deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of the police across the country, the need to address longstanding problems with policing and the justice system has been made clear. However, these issues are complicated and multifaceted, sitting at the crossroads of such issues as race, poverty, […]