Yes, prisoners deserve a stimulus check Despite misleading messaging from the IRS, the deadline for jail and prison inmates to file for a stimulus check via a paper application is now October 30 after advocates found that the fine print in the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act does not exclude incarcerated people. […]
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The Show Must Flow On
“here’s this hand-drawn piece of art,” said Dr. Marcus Robinson when asked to summarize his year. “Probably with a black Magic Marker on white paper. It’s Bruce Lee doing a Bruce Lee kick, but the caption is ‘Remember to flow like water.’ ” It’s a motto applicable to many aspects of life in 2020, but […]
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Report: Cook County Jail Is Filling Up Again
he Cook County Criminal Courts system drastically failed to contain the spread of coronavirus or prevent the deaths of people in custody, according to a report released on September 16 by the Coalition to End Money Bond (CEMB)—and now the number of detainees is increasing. Hundreds of detainees and several guards have been infected with […]
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¿Por qué es tan difícil llevar comida a los más necesitados?
Originally published on August 5, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco n una soleada mañana de mayo, decenas de residentes de Chicago —conductores de autobuses, operadores de guarderías, trabajadores de la salud en el hogar, conserjes y jubilados—esperaron, algunos de pie, otros en sus autos, para recibir una despensa de comida en un evento […]
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Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell
Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell On September 5 the New York Times published a photo essay by Magnum photographer Alec Soth as part of a series on inequality titled “The America We Need.” Soth photographed people and places in two Chicago neighborhoods, Streeterville and Englewood, and to say that Tonika Lewis Johnson […]
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At Project Onward, an Artistic Community Adjusts to COVID-19
ack in February, everyone at Project Onward’s studio shifted from their workstations and huddled for a group meeting to discuss the novel coronavirus possibly appearing in the United States. Then, the details of COVID-19 were highly unknown, but the disability arts organization’s artists and staff tried to address the uncertainty of what might come. Some […]
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The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder For Some Chicago Residents to Access Clean Water
ince the pandemic began, I Grow Chicago, a West Englewood-based nonprofit, has made more than 4,000 essential deliveries to neighborhood residents. Many of these deliveries, director of development Zelda Mayer explained, are of something residents of other neighborhoods often take for granted: clean drinking water. The COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened disparities between Chicago residents, […]
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From Prison, Rico Clark Fights a Murder Conviction and COVID-19
n September 24, 2006, nineteen-year-old Damion Kendricks was shot and killed in an alley near 76th and Dorchester in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Witnesses said they saw four men with hoodies pulled over their heads running from the scene holding guns, according to police. Only one of the men named by […]
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Pandemic Lessons
t has been more than five months since a stay-at-home order was first issued in Illinois due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Despite limited reopening of parts of the U.S., COVID-19 continues to devastate many communities. The number of deaths has reached more than 180,000 as of August 31, making this the second-most fatal pandemic […]
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Op-Ed: Stop Treating the Southeast Side as Disposable
This piece is part of a series that explores the various perspectives around defunding the police. The Southeast Side community on the Calumet River has historically been an industrial corridor. The longtime home of the old steel mills has recently become the city’s designated dumping zone, and residents struggle with exposure to petcoke, manganese, and […]