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Photo caption: MAYORAL HOPEFUL BRANDON JOHNSON on Monday, March 20, thanked individuals and organizations endorsing him for mayor, vowing that come April 4
"The difference between my plan and the mayor's plan is that it recognizes that we need new leadership in the police department. She's hanging on to the leadership that's proved to fail in Chicago," said Congressman Chuy Garcia.
The museum has been in the making for some 15 years and will be the only cultural institution devoted to telling the story of public housing in the United States, according to museum organizers.
"This was vital for us to be here," said Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr., executive director of Maafa Redemption Project and a pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Church. "It’s a profound way to commemorate Dr. King’s movement and continue his legacy and work."
Parades, music, museums, block parties, tours and yoga classes across Chicago and in the suburbs are some of the highlights of the annual celebration of freedom.
Sebastián Hidalgo for Bates College Published on February 17, 2021 To Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10, the long painful moment in American history that is 2020 feels like Reconstruction revisited. Lately he’s been delving deep into the history of that period after the Civil War, “which at once was the highest high for African Americans,” he says, “and then the lowest low.” In that era, Blacks held seats in Congress and in Southern legislatures, but angry white Southerners inflamed racial tensions chaos coupled with hope, American democracy at stake. “The question during Reconstruction was, ‘What kind of country do we want to be?’” Hatch says. And the question arises again today. “These are incredible times to be living in,” Hatch says. “But there’s a lot to be dismayed about.”