Asbestos Dumped In A Field In Impoverished Black Township
Among the many words that comes to mind after reading this the one that is safe for general reading is HORRENDOUS! Asbestos Dumped In A Field In Impoverished Black Township.Filed under: News from the...
View ArticleMissouri House Speaker Steve Tilley: Flood Cairo, Illinois To Save Farmland
I am absolutely OUTRAGED by Steve Tilley’s statement. It was grossly racist, irresponsible, and insensitive. As a publicly elected official he needs to be held accountable. Missouri House Speaker Steve...
View ArticleChase unit takes stake in Ebony publisher
This is potentially fantastic news-as long as JP Morgan Chase’s Special Investments Group does not attempt to yield editorial influence on its investment. The investment JP Morgan Chase has made will...
View ArticleOur Economy Needs More Action, Fewer Words From Obama
By Imara Jones Barack Obama (Photo credit: jamesomalley) Today in his home state of Illinois, President Obama returned to the topic that is Americans’ number one priority but where he’s struggled to...
View ArticleHow Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man
Stateville Correctional Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Maurice Possley During nearly 25 years as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, I received hundreds of requests for help from convicted...
View ArticleChicago Just Became the First U.S. City to Pay Reparations to Victims of...
By Araz Hachadourian In 2005 Standish Willis, a lawyer from Chicago, was home with a broken ankle. He was working on the case of a man who claimed that, years ago, he had been tortured by police. On...
View ArticleCook County Jail, America’s Largest Mental-Health Facility
By Matt Ford It was 9 o’clock in the morning at Cook County Jail, but in the subterranean holding cells where dozens await their turn before a judge, you wouldn’t be able to tell. Pre-bail processing...
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