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Cities Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office. This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly ...

Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the true story of FBI informant William O’Neal and his role in the 1969 killing of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. It took years for the facts around Hampton’s killing to become public, thanks to a vigorous government effort to cover them up. While the movie, directed by Shaka King from a screenplay he wrote with Will Berson, stays relatively faithful to history, it does take some liberties with the historical record—including by filling in some of its blanks. Here’s what’s real and what’s invented.

Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks' impact that profoundly changed their criminal ways CHICAGO – When I first met Pastor Corey Brooks in Chicago several years ago, I was somewhat caught off guard by his gentle and peaceful nature. I admit I expected him to be more in the mold of a fiery, in-your-face type of preacher. After all, this was the pastor that established his New Beginnings Church and Project H.O.O.D., a community center, in the heart of Woodlawn, one of the most violent of 77 communities that make up Chicagoland. While most people in that neighborhood are salt-of-the-earth, working-clas...

Haven't forgotten. >> you see a big hole like this, i'm like hell no. the girl said they shot like six times. they started it. >> commander schmitz works to keep the conflict from erupting. >> this is a big, heavy area right here of the bds, black disciples. the gangster disciples start over here, and this is where the fight comes in right along here. seventh district, we have all the challenges because we still have a lot of other things to cover at the same time as these safe passages. it's tough, but we do it. >> nearly every city agency has been recruited to help out during safe passage. >...

>> we he have got to do more graduations than funerals to turn this around. >> a lot of gangs here. >> basically what you have two primary gangs. black disciples. >> are there a lot of shootings in this neighborhood. >> definitely. right here we are on king drive. supposed to be a symbol of peace. unfortunately we have a lot of violence right here on king drive. >> i got shot one day. it's all good though. i'm still alive. >> people don't talk to nobody. lucky enough if you can make it across the street to the store and come back. >> you got president obama's house right here. you go six block...