The Last Hours of William O’Neal
William O’Neal spent the last few hours of his life with his uncle Ben Heard, a retired truck driver from Maywood. It was Martin Luther King Day. “We were just sitting around drinking beer,” Heard...
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Fall Books Special: The Night Fred Hampton Died
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther Jeffrey Haas (Lawrence Hill) Maybe we all have points at which our consciousness changes and we cannot...
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Black Panthers doc echoes the past in this present moment
The saga of Laquan McDonald—the video, the protests, the mayor’s apology—has stirred fierce and complicated emotions in Chicago. Thursday night’s your last chance to see a documentary that will stir...
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Sensei Barnett
In the days after he died on December 28, 2019, Richard Barnett’s obituaries told stories of the roles he’d played in Chicago politics over the last 50 years—as an activist, strategist, and ally to...
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