Gwendolyn Brooks: From a Chicago Kitchenette to Literary Greatness
For Gwendolyn Brooks' 106th birthday, we look back at a Defender article on the poet when she lived in a small Southside apartment.
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Black History Month reminds us history is a journey we all must take together
Black History Month arrives with American history under assault all around the country.
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Ruth Apilado, the oldest living Chicagoan, remains a beacon of hope at age 113
Photo provided by David McGrath Who knew when Ruth Apilado sent out the first thousand copies of AIM (America’s Intercultural Magazine) from a home office at 73rd Street and Eberhardt Avenue in 1973, that she still would be receiving submissions of poems, short stories and essays at age 113? When I first met Apilado in 1977, she told me she had retired from teaching in order to launch a publication to promote racial harmony. It had been a dream of hers since the 1960’s, when she drove from Chicago to Mississippi with her son, knocking on doors to extol the benefits of integration, cauti...
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