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Journalist Danny Fenster, shown in September 2019 in Kraków, Poland. Fenster, an American journalist working for a news magazine in Myanmar has been detained by the authorities there.

Column: Columbia College alumnus detained in Myanmar for committing journalism

June 8, 2021 at 2:37 p.m.

He was so close. Columbia College journalism alumnus Danny Fenster was about to board a plane in Myanmar on May 24 to return home to Michigan. Instead he was detained...

Former NFL player Najeh Davenport in Miramar, Florida, on Aug. 24, 2020. Davenport is one of two Black former NFL players who have raised questions about potential racial bias in how their applications for dementia claims in the concussion settlement were evaluated.

Column: NFL’s ‘race-norming’ policy — now scrapped — is a sad example of systemic racism

June 4, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

Oops! Who would have guessed that the NFL, after committing $250 million to combat "systemic racism," would uncover the sort of racism in their own systems that they are committed...

Police remove the body of a Black man killed during the 1919 race riots.

Column: Let’s not forget: Chicago had a ‘Black Wall Street’ too

June 24, 2025 at 7:15 p.m.

Of the many lessons to be considered 100 years after a breathtakingly brutal race riot tore through Tulsa's Greenwood district, one of the most painful is this: Tulsa wasn't alone.

Loyola Academy on March 9, 2020, in Wilmette.

Column: Loyola Academy stirs up an unexpected lesson in what race, privilege and education really mean

May 30, 2021 at 8:21 a.m.

Education or indoctrination? That's the big question at the core of the hullabaloo over "critical race theory," and you don't have to be a conservative to worry about it. You...

Four-year-old Gus "Jett" Hawkins plays May 21, 2021.

Column: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair.

May 26, 2021 at 3:38 p.m.

Let's talk about hair. Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical "Hair" theme song: "Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh ...!" Stop the music. I mean real hair! And...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot arrives to announce a new community investment initiative on her two-year anniversary in office in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on May 20, 2021.

Column: Mayor Lightfoot’s call out for media diversity didn’t have to look like a stunt

May 21, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has raised a ruckus by announcing that she would only give one-on-one interviews on the two-year anniversary of her term to journalists of color, noting that...

The University of Illinois at Chicago's John Marshall Law School in January 2018.

Column: Yes, there is a case for using offensive words in classrooms — in certain situations

May 18, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

Should white professors be allowed to use the N-word in class, especially when it is an essential element of the lesson that is being taught? That question caused an uproar...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives for a House Republican caucus candidate forum to replace outgoing conference chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., at the Capitol on May 13, 2021, in Washington.

Column: Liz Cheney pays a heavy price for telling the truth — but is she just the first?

May 14, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

Sometimes the sacred halls of Congress sound like the raucous corridors of an unruly grade school. On the same day that House Republicans used a secret vote to purge Rep....

The Hampton History Museum has created "The 1619 Arrival," an exhibit that tells the stories of the first Africans who landed at Point Comfort in 1619.

Column: Who’s afraid of critical race theory? Those who don’t know what it is.

May 11, 2021 at 2:28 p.m.

Amid rising attacks against a line of academic debate called "critical race theory," I was surprised to see a Black state lawmaker from Chicago's West Side, La Shawn Ford, introduce...

Kenneth Frazier, chairman and chief executive of Merck & Co., speaks at a conference in New York in 2018. Frazier is co-founder of an initiative that seeks to train and promote a million black Americans over the next 10 years.

Column: A GED for college? Not as far-fetched as it sounds

May 7, 2021 at 1:32 p.m.

When I saw the Wall Street Journal headline, "Some CEOs suggest dropping degree requirements in hiring," I was impressed. At last, I thought, the business establishment is starting to see...

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