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“Our Emancipation Day”: Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. Chicago’s strategies to keep African

Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

This month I interviewed the scholar-activist Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald McWorter) about his new website and his life of scholarship

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who