Gerard Edery, born in Casablanca and raised in Paris and New York City, is the essence of a global musician. Composer and performer, he sings in numerous languages, and his focus is on Sephardic music – the music that traveled with the Jews across the globe after their flight from Spain. Here he talks about [...]
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Written by Demetrio on November 4, 2011
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 [...]
Written by Stephen on November 2, 2011
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 [...]
Written by Stephen on October 26, 2011
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 [...]
Written by Stephen on October 12, 2011
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 [...]
Written by Stephen on October 10, 2011
By Vanessa Valentin Jeff Kelly Lowenstein was looking at fatal police shootings in Chicago, and so he began with a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to the Chicago Police Department. It quickly became a lesson for Lowenstein, a reporter for Hoy, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, in the difficulty reporters face in getting needed information. [...]
Written by Stephen on October 5, 2011
An English teacher at Huron High School used one of my columns to stimulate classroom discussion of a Maya Angelou book they were reading — which was so lively it spilled into a second day, and even more impressive, students who normally never talked in class really got into the discussion.
Written by frances on October 3, 2011
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