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“Fasting felt necessary, mind over matter,” Sharonda Miller says. Courtesy Antu’Nesha Taylor Stretched out on her bunk at night, arms all akimbo, Sharonda Miller likes to…
click to enlarge A handmade sign advertises the $20 entrance fee. Pride North illegally charged a $20 entrance fee to the festival on Sunday, city officials…
click to enlarge Dr. Charles Smith, Dred Scott: Asked Supreme Court to Free Him, c. 1985–99 Courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection (Gift of Kohler…
click to enlarge Urban Growers Collective, a Black- and women-run nonprofit, is one of the groups working to create food equity in the city. Adam M.…
click to enlarge Willie Jones outside the Elite Houses of Sober Living’s facilities in Chicago Heights Michael Murney Willie Jones clutched his chest and gasped for…
click to enlarge Courtesy the Fenster family I was startled when I saw the news come up on my Twitter feed. A young American journalist in…
click to enlarge A few hundred meters from the Gaza fence in Israel, agricultural fields burnt by fires started by Molotov cocktails affixed to kites flying…
Last week the Chicago Philharmonic Society announced the appointment of a new executive director, Terell M. Johnson. A classically trained musician as well as an administrator,…
Queer to the Left was active from the late 90s through 2005. courtesy Therese Quinn Heading into the 21st century, queer activism was at a crossroads.…
More than six months after the Northalsted Business Alliance said it would abandon the name Boystown for the city’s principal queer enclave, business leaders in the…