Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel âNative Sonâ was a sensation. As one critic famously presumed, after reading the novelâs blunt force approach to race and poverty, American culture would be changed forever. Wright was a star, and the bestselling author at Harper & Brothers (later HarperCollins), the fabled New York publishing house that claimed the âLittle House on the Prairieâ series and Thornton Wilder, among others.
April 21, 2021
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Jennifer Coronel
Every year on Earth Day, my teachers would remind us to “get some nature!” This always confused me. Why would I do that? Why would I go outside and sit in the dying grass? Did my teachers want me to sit by the one tree in my neighborhood? That just never seemed very appealing.
I spent most of my life in the Southside of Chicago. Like many low-income urban areas, there was little greenery in my neighborhood. Similarly, our apartment building did not have a backyard, just a concrete slab in its place. I spent all of my time inside, in front of the TV. Fortunately, my mother was always watching documentaries, my favorites of which were nature documentaries. I could not believe that the places I saw in these documentaries, so colorful and vibrant, existed. They seemed almost alien to me the exact opposite of what I was surrounded by. I dreamed about visiting the raw and untamed natural areas that were depicted.
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Vatic Investments has hired former Citadel and D.E. Shaw quant Allen Poteshman as CIO.
Poteshman, a former finance professor, will launch a new statistical arbitrage strategy.
Its the latest in a string of hires for the high-speed systematic trading firm.
High-speed quant trading firm Vatic Investments is launching a statistical arbitrage effort, and it has hired a former finance professor who worked at Citadel and D.E. Shaw to lead the charge as its chief investment officer.
Allen Poteshman joined Vatic Investments, previously known as Vatic Labs, last week to oversee its overarching investments but also to build out a new stat arb strategy, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
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