by John | Jun 5, 2020 | People and Relationships
Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people...
by John | Jun 5, 2020 | People and Relationships
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself. Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on...
by John | Jun 5, 2020 | People and Relationships
The scope of the problem is so vast that, after decades of denial and avoidance, in 2009, the state government created the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission. Although it was founded in the hopes of bringing to a close this aspect of Chicago’s past,...
by John | May 24, 2020 | Family and Kids, Inspirational
For the last few weeks, I have been hunting for hope. One of the places I have been looking has been in books: old books, new books, terrifically serious books with footnotes in Latin and terrifically unserious books with jokes too rude to repeat here. And I have...
