We Are the Obama Effect
Derrion Albert's death should resonate from coast to coast, because his early departure represents a lost opportunity; a life that could have given back has been taken.
Derrion Albert's death should resonate from coast to coast, because his early departure represents a lost opportunity; a life that could have given back has been taken.
AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities plan to give the public access to a searchable online database of nearly 100,000 graves at the historic black cemetery...
SouthtownStar | LAUREN FITZPATRICK | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago
Emmett Till's glass-topped casket that showed evidence of his death by lynching in 1955 turned up last week in the storage shed of an Alsip cemetery e...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | Chicago
(SCROLL DOWN FOR SLIDESHOW) Saying that his office is overwhelmed having assumed virtual responsibility for managing Burr Oak Cemetery, Cook County S...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end o...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — Some horrified relatives who searched Friday for loved ones' plots at a historic black cemetery at the center of a gravedigging sc...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping s...
Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
The woman behind a long-running scheme to dig up bodies and resell the grave sites in a historic African American cemetery also embezzled funds from a...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
ALSIP, Ill. — (AP) Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dump...
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The impetus for the absurd McCain ad was Obama's riotous European welcome. There is a certain irony in that as this summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Notting Hill Riots.
John Ridley | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York