When Martin Luther King Jr. Lived in Chicago
Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose...
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4 events in 12 days that shook Chicago
If we've learned anything in recent years, it's how quickly the social fabric can be torn apart. The levees break, the markets plunge, a man sets himself aflame on a...
4 events in 12 days that shook Chicago
If we've learned anything in recent years, it's how quickly the social fabric can be torn apart. The levees break, the markets plunge, a man sets himself aflame on a...
‘A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother’ by Janny Scott
Janny Scott's intriguing new biography of Stanley Ann Dunham began as a newspaper profile published on the front page of the New York Times in March 2008, just as Dunham's...
“The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” by David Remnick
"The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" By David Remnick Alfred A. Knopf, 656 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Kevin Boyle By March 7, 1965 John Lewis had been...
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" By Isabel Wilkerson Random House, $30.00, 620 pages Warmth In the spring of 1941photographer Russell Lee spent several...
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" By Isabel Wilkerson Random House, $30.00, 620 pages Warmth In the spring of 1941photographer Russell Lee spent several...