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What we’re reading this week: June 8th

Lauren Dean June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017Further Reading
Shelves of books in a library This week, we’re reading about Illinois’ regressive school funding formula, how Chicago communities are fighting deportation, and how CPS policies have worked to segregate Black students as well as Black teachers. A Just Chicago will have more on the new…

What we’re reading this week: May 18th

Lauren Dean May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017Further Reading
Shelves of books in a library This week, we’re reading about the mechanisms that drive Chicago’s continued inequities in a few different sectors. First up, some new information about how CPD uses computers and profiling to track folks without arrest records. Then, a look at how…

What we’re reading this week: April 13th

Lauren Dean April 13, 2017 April 17, 2017Further Reading
Shelves of books in a library This week, we’re looking at how our brothers and sisters are organizing in charter schools, the struggle to find safe, affordable housing, and the ongoing need to fight segregation in our schools. Charter school union fight heats up : Charter…

Contract Selling is “Racially targeted disinvestment”

Sarah Rothschild March 20, 2017 May 11, 2017Housing
A Chicago bungalow with boarded up windows For people who thought the housing crisis was behind us, a drive through Englewood, North Lawndale or Austin will quickly dispel that rosy notion, as a recent investigative report in the Chicago Reader explains. These communities are among many in…

The Continuing Legacy of Segregation

Sarah Rothschild November 16, 2016 May 11, 2017Justice
One thing is certain, however, that when mourners gathered around the family’s home shortly after the tragic shooting, they were greeted by an angry group of flag waving white men who shouted racial obscenities and told the mourners to get out of “their” community.
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