Comfest returned this year. Comfest celebrated a 50 year anniversary last weekend.
Comfest began in 1972 as a community concert founded with a group of political activists, artists, craftspeople, local business owners, musicians,...
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30 June 2022
The need has not been greater to help the homeless, especially during the pandemic and recent clearing of homeless camps, such as the one at Heer Park on the City’s far South Side. With rents rising, and the cost of living going up due...
30 June 2022
Part Four (of Four)
Residents’ lack of basic rights (cont’d.)
Public safety
The right to public health and a clean environment for healthy living, which I explored in Part Three, is inseparable...
30 June 2022
She is absolutely my favorite human rights activist and historical figure from the twentieth century. Who could not be in love with and awe of Fannie Lou Hamer?
A poor, black, Mississippi sharecropper with a sixth-grade education...
30 June 2022
Thursday, June 30, 7-9pm, Tuttle Park [outside of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.
Roe v. Wade has...
30 June 2022
As our nation’s birthday rolls around again, there is a strange and eerie feeling about the country we’re living in these days. The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade –– thus removing federal protections for...
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