Earlier this year the Holloway sisters visited the StoryCorps booth at the Chicago Cultural Center to talk about why they are each other’s best friend and biggest fan. Producer: Bill Healy
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Five years ago, Kwame Raoul helped pass police reform legislation. But he had to drop the policy he says would’ve been the most impactful — and now he wants it back.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Tony Arnold
Aaron Allen is a young Chicago journalist wrestling with why the white and black neighborhoods near him looked so different growing up. He recently discovered a big reason why.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Linda Lutton, Andrew Fan
Producer: Joe DeCeault
Businesses owners along one of Chicago's longest streets, Western Avenue, share how they are faring at the start of the city's latest phase of reopening during the pandemic.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
Some business owners and residents have been trying to prevent looting during ongoing unrest. In Chicago's Humboldt Park, gang members have been guarding the central business corridor there at night.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
Redlining is supposed to be illegal, but a new WBEZ analysis shows how closely home loans are tied in Chicago to the race of the neighborhood.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Some Chicago businesses have had to put reopening on hold after the past few days of unrest.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
The bloodshed has violence prevention organizations scrambling to prevent retaliation, while at the same time helping their communities recover from the recent destruction.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
Dozens of activists stood outside a police station for hours Monday demanding the release of a prominent activist and poet, Malcolm London.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Maria Ines Zamudio
Marshall Hatch is the senior pastor of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on the city’s West Side, where there’s now no place to buy groceries because of looting.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Chip Mitchell
Chicago community activist Xavier Ramey says there are coordinated attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Natalie Moore
Residents in Garfield Park said the chaos Sunday was “stupid” “hooliganism.” But they also understand the anger driving it.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
A look at how Chicago's City Hall is cleaning up after a weekend of civil unrest, and how they're preparing to keep the peace Monday night.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Becky Vevea
Chicago is under curfew each night until further notice, after days of protests were set off by the police killing of George Floyd of Minneapolis.
Host: Susie An, Shawn Allee
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos
One family is recovering from COVID-19 together after two siblings and their elderly parents were all hospitalized with the virus.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
As we grieve and seek a way forward for a more just, more equitable world, it’s important to understand what has brought us here and the obstacles we have yet to overcome. To get started, here are some suggestions for further reading. You can browse even more in our subject listings. The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence Laurence Ralph Available as a free e-book until June 6. Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs Colin Gordon Tacit Racism Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Second Edition Edited by Alfreda M. Duster, With a New Foreword by Eve L. Ewing and a New Afterword by Michelle Duster Remembering Emmett Till Dave Tell Beyond the Usual Beating: The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago Andrew S. Baer Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing Jeffrey S. Adler Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side Eve L. Ewing The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice Derrick Darby and John L. Rury Building the Prison State: Race and […]
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Looters hit retailers in the suburbs and in city neighborhoods like Chicago's the South Side.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Chip Mitchell
BLM Chicago cofounder Aislinn Pulley spoke with WBEZ about the many factors she believes have culminated in people taking to the streets.
Host: Melba Lara