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Until we stop looking at these kids as monsters we will never break the cycle of gang violence.
Carol Chodroff | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
The Youth PROMISE Act Rejects "one size fits all" approaches that will funnel more youth -- particularly poor youth and youth of color -- into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago
Like a strong, steady heartbeat, the Chicago Community Trust quietly tapped out the city's economic pulse Monday in the form of its very first monthly "Vital Signs" report.
Paul Tough | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
The most innovative policy in Obama's platform is his pledge to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the country. What we spend early on in a child's life, we more than get back later.
Off The Bus | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
As the Wall Street crisis and recent bombing in Pakistan have made all too clear, there are crucial global, financial and social issues that the next president will be focused to grapple with. This week OffTheBus writers have tossed aside the lipstick and plunged into some of the most pressing issues in the election by analyzing key policy differences between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media
For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.
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Baron Davis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment