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On this day in history, May 17, 1954, Supreme Court trounces segregation in landmark Brown v. Board...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe U.S Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the landmark Brown...
Chicago’s mayor candidates both have deep CPS ties — but starkly different visions for the future of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBrandon Johnson wants voters to know about his time on the front lines of Chicago Public Schools. The mayoral candidate and longtime Chicago Teachers Union organizer often revisits his role ...
In Progressive Breakthrough, Teachers' Union Organizer Elected Mayor of Chicago
The 74 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a generational breakthrough for organized labor and the Democratic Party’s left flank, former...
World Business Chicago CEO stepping down after four years of selling the city as a corporate...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoMichael Fassnacht, a former advertising executive and the city’s top corporate pitchman, is stepping...
Opinion: Jimmy Carter, Iowa politics, and the demise of progressive evangelicalism
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn October 1975 a dispatch from Ames rocked the political world. “Jimmy Carter of Georgia appears to...
Celebrating the impact of Rosenwald Schools: Brooks Avenue School alumni to host reunion
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCelebrating the impact of Rosenwald Schools: Brooks Avenue School alumni to host reunion George R....
What to watch for in the hotly contested Wisconsin and Chicago elections Tuesday
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVoters will head to the polls Tuesday in a pair of Midwestern elections that are bound to provide...
74 Interview: Shep Melnick on Brown at 70 and Integration’s Failure in the North
The 74 via Yahoo News· 1 week agoFor 70 years, the U.S. government has worked to desegregate K–12 education, with Congress, federal...
Editorial: At age 175, still your ‘watchman on the walls’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs we celebrate this newspaper’s 175th year in business, it is illuminating to look back at where our editorial voice got things right and where it fell off target. Our reaction to the Supreme ...
Author will speak in Columbia on Hubert Humphrey, fight for civil rights
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThough the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its...