This is money you can’t afford to lose and information folks can’t afford not to know

This is money you can't afford to lose and information folks can't afford not to know No Comments

Legal notices and the ethnic news media, a major change A meeting on Friday, April 20thThese are tough days for the news media and you do not want to lose any revenue. Nor do you want to ignore any revenue that you should be receiving. You also want to make sure public information that comes [...]

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Written by on April 2, 2012

Whose Homeland? A Play and a Community

Whose Homeland? A Play and a Community No Comments

Imagine heaps of suitcases piled high and everywhere. They are everything that immigrants carry. The youngsters perched on them are the face of immigration, as is the case today in Albany Park. Imagine now the stage as it darkens and now huddle as if in a boat making a trip from Central America to Mexico [...]

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Written by on March 26, 2012

Trauma, covering it and living it, a workshop

Trauma, covering it and living it, a workshop No Comments

I’ve covered six conflicts. I’ve been splattered with others’ blood. And I’ve talked to people who have lost people they love only moments ago. And I’ve never felt comfortable doing this, covering trauma. This is the story that binds us and blinds us. The story of loss and endings. The story of trauma and, sometimes, [...]

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Written by on March 22, 2012

Who speaks for black Chicago?

Who speaks for black Chicago? 2 Comments

You read the headline on the Chicago Defender that says, “Don’t Count Us Out.” Underneath that it says, “Defender remains a staunch advocate for the community.” On page two, president Michael House refutes a Chicago Sun-Times story about his newspaper’s viability. His 106-year-old newspaper, he insists, is not about to vanish. And you wonder. What [...]

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Written by on November 2, 2011

Saving teens’ hopes, a meeting worth covering

Saving teens' hopes, a meeting worth covering No Comments

We know joblessness is a headache that isn’t going away today. We know that the black and Latino communities have suffered greatly in jobs lost and jobs that won’t ever return. But how about teens? Our economic collapse has tossed teens into a job wasteland. The rate of teens who worked this summer was the [...]

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Written by on October 26, 2011

Hey, did you hear this, read this, know about this?

Hey, did you hear this, read this, know about this? No Comments

Have you been listening to stories on the WBEZ stories about trauma care? I stopped and purposely listened this morning. And I’m glad I did. They are about life and what needs to be done to save lives in Chicago. They are about, more precisely, what happened to trauma care in Chicago and how a [...]

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Written by on October 12, 2011

What’s the real news in Chicago’s African-American community? A public dialogue, Nov. 8

What's the real news in Chicago's African-American community? A public dialogue, Nov. 8 No Comments

Today’s paper says hunger in parts of the South Side are the city’s worst. And there are marches around the city about jobs and justice. And I see the campaigning for the Second Congressional District, Jesse Jackson Jr.’s district, is heating up. Is this the news that  matters to Chicago’s African-American community? What else? What’s [...]

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Written by on October 10, 2011

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