Spoken word poetry key to unlock student potential
Many of the talented teenagers who join Peter Kahn's Spoken Word Club at Oak Park and River Forest High School do so because they have pressing needs — a need...
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Local Freedom Riders followed a road less traveled
On May 4, 1961, an integrated group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington heading to Louisiana to challenge segregation throughout the Deep South. After their bus was firebombed in Alabama —...
Cutting red tape key to Haiti rescue
Dr. Robert Murphy, the director of Northwestern University's Center for Global Health, was standing on the tarmac at Midway Airport when two Haitian earthquake survivors arrived Thursday. All week, Murphy...
A surgeon’s mission: Help 2 defy the odds
To Suy Bazelais, the events that brought him to Chicago on Thursday, strapped to a gurney, were nothing short of a miracle. Weeks ago, the 28-year-old computer student was buried...
‘Big black woman’ battles West Side weight problems
In her late 20s, LaDonna Redmond, who's now 45, had bariatric surgery that dropped her weight from 340 pounds to 210 pounds. When she and her husband had their son...
He saw ’60s race relations at their best — and worst
Like many African-Americans of his generation, Abraham Bolden used to have a large portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert Kennedy displayed...
Giving her native language new life
When Dorene Wiese was a young girl she would listen to the stories her family members told as they gathered around her kitchen table. Relatives often reminisced about harvesting rice,...
American Indians ‘disgusted’ by Steele’s remark
Some consider the word "injun" to be as offensive as the N-word, but apparently Republican National Chairman Michael Steele didn't know that when he tried to underscore a point earlier...
West Side grocery deal for food desert is deserted
For more than two decades, many Chicago residents in the impoverished West Garfield Park and Austin neighborhoods have lived in a food desert, meaning they've had to travel miles to...
Professor’s goal: Separate HIV facts from fiction
Before becoming an associate professor at the University of Chicago, Dexter Voisin worked for years as a social worker/mental health counselor in large urban areas such as Atlanta and the...