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“We will not tolerate that. That is inhumane. That is not American,” Patrick Brutus, president of Haitian American Professional Network, tol...

Trump's gun thugs storm MI legislature. He calls them, "very good people." Brittany Packnett, activist, educator “The...

Women Pack Streets in Massive Int'l Women's Day Marches Across Latin America New York Times editorial Already, citizens who ar...

Machine boss Mike Madigan & whistle-blower Alaina Hampton Chicago unions have no choice but to work with House Speaker Michael M...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at Chicago's Broadway Armory Sen. Elizabeth Warren   "Only in Chicago is the big Saturday night entert...

Madigan and Mapes When Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan announced in February 2018 that he had fired Kevin Quinn, the brother of ...

Ald. Maldonado Ald. Robert Maldonado, new chair of the Latino Caucus “Some of our communities are being completely gentrified. We need...

"For years, they’ve said Chicago ain’t ready for reform. Well, get ready …because reform is here. I campaigned on change, you voted f...

"Casting call for a Lipitor commercial"? SNL's Leslie Jones   Jones later drew attention to the fact that every Alabama ...

After more than $1billion was easily raised for the repair of  Notre Dame Cathedral, thousands marched in Paris, for the 23rd week in a ro...

Jill Abramson We have 102 women in Congress. It's not Trump's Washington any more. -- Guardian Toni Preckwinkle   “I won'...

Susan Klonsky introduces Timuel Black at Sunday's event.  First Unitarian Church of Chicago honors Timuel Black But we are n...

People celebrate the Office Van Dyke guilty verdict at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard on Oct. 5, 2018. (Tribune) Former Yale Law S...

Standing on the White House lawn, President Trump was talking about the Kavanaugh confirmation fight when he said, quote , "it'...

Van Dyke & Kavanaugh play the role of victims.  The prosecutor asked Van Dyke, "Is it your testimony that Laquan never turne...

“The new contracts ensure that hotel workers will keep their health care if they’re laid off in the wintertime,” UNITE HERE Local 1, the u...

Nobody's talking arming teachers any more.  Lynne McKernan, seventh-grade AZ writing teacher  Said Arizona lawmakers walked out of...

50 years ago. Dr. Martin Luther King  “Fire hoses can’t deal with a million people … Dogs can’t bite a million people.” -- The Atlant...

Lorraine Forte on Hitting Left. On Hitting Left today, one day after International Women's Day, we spoke with Chicago journalist  L...