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A memorial near where Anthony Alvarez was fatally shot during a foot pursuit by Chicago police in the Portage Park neighborhood on April 28, 2021.

Column: If Chicago is in hot pursuit of a better police chase policy, why is it moving so slowly?

May 4, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.

If Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's recent call for a new police foot-pursuit policy made you feel a twinge of what Yogi Berra is said to have called "deja vu all...

Protesters march up Ashland Avenue from Union Park on June 5, 2020. Many were calling for the Chicago Police Department to be defunded.

Column: Are we a ‘racist nation’? Who’s asking?

April 30, 2021 at 1:53 p.m.

Some questions can best be answered with another question. Consider, for example, the question that popped up with prominence as President Joe Biden finished his first 100 days last week:...

A person walks through the rain March 23, 2021, near the border of the 5th Ward in Evanston. The day before, aldermen approved the first expenditures in the city's municipal reparations program designed to compensate Black residents for codified discrimination.

Column: The complicated road to slavery reparations — and the need for an apology

April 27, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.

When "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah opened his nightly monologue with "Let's talk about slavery" a couple of years ago, he immediately followed with alarm, "No, white people, come...

Ohio State University students gather April 21, 2021, on High Street in Columbus, Ohio, to protest the police shooting that killed Ma'Khia Bryant and call on the university to cut its ties with Columbus police.

Column: Trying to keep hope alive after the Derek Chauvin verdict

April 23, 2021 at 2:20 p.m.

It's easy to be optimistic if you keep your expectations low. That's why, after Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer with a long history of use-of-force complaints, was convicted...

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Column: The polls are in: Vaccine hesitancy higher among white Republicans than any other group

April 20, 2021 at 4:53 p.m.

As a form of identity politics, the coronavirus pandemic works in unusual, yet painfully familiar ways. For example, the widely reported divide between Blacks and whites in willingness to be...

Elizabeth Arguelles arranges flowers at a makeshift memorial near the site where Adam Toledo was shot by police in the Little Village neighborhood on April 15, 2021.

Column: In less than a second, a 13-year-old’s life is ended and a police officer must live with it

April 16, 2021 at 2:32 p.m.

Heartbreaking. That description is undeniable in the otherwise controversial shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by Chicago police. Adam Toledo The most obvious headline for the story of the video's...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson leaves the stage after speaking during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit on March 29, 2019, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington.

Column: Relax, Tucker Carlson, reports of ‘replacement’ are greatly exaggerated

April 13, 2021 at 3:55 p.m.

In an apparent bid to pick up where the late Rush Limbaugh and the deplatformed former President Donald Trump left off as leading voices for the far-right, Fox News star...

J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," speaks with lawmakers and members of a venture capital bus tour in Youngstown, Ohio, on Feb. 21, 2018.

Column: J.D. Vance seeks to build bridges, maybe even among Republicans

April 9, 2021 at 5:52 p.m.

As a high school student, bestselling "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance recalled, "People talked about Clarence as someone to look up to." "Not when I was there," I interrupted. And...

Toni Watkins, from foreground left, her partner and state Rep. Park Cannon, Martin Luther King III, and others march silently along Mitchell Street in front of the Capitol building in Atlanta on March 29, 2021. Cannon returned to the statehouse for the first time since she was arrested after knocking on Gov. Brian Kemp's private office while he was delivering remarks about the state's new elections restrictions.

Column: Sports and politics don’t mix, yet they keep colliding

April 7, 2021 at 3:13 p.m.

If the late Martin Luther King Jr. were to hold the Montgomery bus boycott today, would conservative politicians call him a "woke" activist pushing a repressive "cancel culture"? That thought...

New York City police Officer Joann Derkacz keeps her eye on pedestrians walking along a busy shopping area March 30, 2021, in Flushing, New York. Police have stepped up patrols in the largely Asian American neighborhood amid a rash of anti-Asian attacks across the United States.

Column: Old tropes of Black-Asian conflict rear up after NY assault

April 5, 2021 at 3:17 p.m.

When the network TV news anchor warned that the next news report contained images that some viewers might find too disturbing to watch, I perked up and watched quite intensely....

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