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Groundbreaking
CAM BAUCHNER At three o’clock on a recent Friday afternoon, the playground at Jane Addams Elementary School exploded with action. Pent-up energy from the day and week came pouring out of the small...
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Common Concerns
LUKE WHITE. New standards are no new phenomenon, but Duncan hopes the Common Core will get more students in the game. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan liberally sprinkles his points with sports...
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On the phone last month, Dr. Otis Taylor did not sound like a man who had just lost his job. He didn’t point any fingers and he did not express remorse. In fact, he sounded like he might have been...
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Screaming the Clarinet
ADHIRAAJ ANAND Taking center stage in the Logan Performance Hall, Anat Cohen evoked the image of earlier leading ladies of jazz: of Billie, Ella, or Dinah standing in front of her band, about to sing...
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Grass Roots
Jitu Brown is the education organizer of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, which is working to keep Dyett High School open in Bronzeville. LUKE WHITE “People need to know the history of where...
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A Point of Strength
Robert Upton, junior. ELLIE MEJIA But when them red lights came on in the recording studio, it was like a bell ringing in a boxing match and I did it.” Eleventh grader Robert Upton’s eyes grow as if...
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A Citywide Sanctuary
ISABEL OCHOA GOLD Today is a carefree kind of day,” Kimmerly Hayes said, sitting in her office at Way of Truth Baptist Church in Marquette Park. It was Tuesday morning, the second day of spring break,...
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Weaver of Faith
ALLISON TOREM A lawyer by education and a Christian by birth, Khaleelah, forty-two, now works in community development and is a practicing Muslim. After she received her law degree from Washington...
View ArticleNot Your Average Summer School
With summer fast approaching, we’re all thinking about how we will while away the scorching days ahead. The South Side Weekly turned to Chicago City of Learning for opportunities available to kids this...
View ArticleRally for Karen Lewis
Until Monday night, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was the most likely challenger to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the 2015 mayoral race. Though the outspoken leader of 30,000 district...
View ArticlePicking Up Peace
Reverend Dr. Marcenia Richards is the founder and executive director of Fierce Women of Faith, an interfaith initiative of women promoting peace throughout Chicago. Wrapped in their signature pink...
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I‘m not gonna lie, I pretty much hate math, I really do. Well I tried my best, it was one of the big tests, that if I passed I would have been gone, but I had one more point to go. It was one question...
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Teaching Self-Love
Maséqua Myers first walked into the South Side Community Art Center at the age of sixteen. It was in this Bronzeville brownstone that she first took African dance classes, in addition to literary and...
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Black History Month
Maséqua Myers first walked into the South Side Community Art Center at the age of sixteen. It was in this Bronzeville brownstone that she first took African dance classes, in addition to literary and...
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Grass Roots
Jitu Brown is the education organizer of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, which is working to keep Dyett High School open in Bronzeville. LUKE WHITE “People need to know the history of where...
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A Point of Strength
Robert Upton, junior. ELLIE MEJIA But when them red lights came on in the recording studio, it was like a bell ringing in a boxing match and I did it.” Eleventh grader Robert Upton’s eyes grow as if...
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A Citywide Sanctuary
ISABEL OCHOA GOLD Today is a carefree kind of day,” Kimmerly Hayes said, sitting in her office at Way of Truth Baptist Church in Marquette Park. It was Tuesday morning, the second day of spring break,...
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Weaver of Faith
ALLISON TOREM A lawyer by education and a Christian by birth, Khaleelah, forty-two, now works in community development and is a practicing Muslim. After she received her law degree from Washington...
View ArticleNot Your Average Summer School
With summer fast approaching, we’re all thinking about how we will while away the scorching days ahead. The South Side Weekly turned to Chicago City of Learning for opportunities available to kids this...
View ArticleRally for Karen Lewis
Until Monday night, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was the most likely challenger to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the 2015 mayoral race. Though the outspoken leader of 30,000 district...
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