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CHICAGO — Ephraim Martin has been asking Chicago, and asking Chicago, and asking Chicago, for years to honor Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the first permanent non-indigenous settler of the land
As in, right now, April 2021, one year into a pandemic. Like many of you, until the other day, until I started writing what youâre now reading, I hadnât stepped foot in a movie theater in more than a year. The last thing I saw in a theater was ... I actually donât remember. Iâm sitting here, trying to recall, trying to recall, and... nope, nothing. It feels much too long ago to remember. The last âStar Warsâ? Maybe Greta Gerwigâs âLittle Womenâ? Perhaps â1917â? Whatever it was, Iâm guessing it was from 2019, and most likely an Oscar ...
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 ...
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 ...
CHICAGO â Hanif Abdurraqib doesnât exactly write about music. I mean, yes, he writes about music, heâs written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I donât know if music was playing in the background all of those times heâs baked a cake on Instagram, probably....