Or you could have a couple of steaks at Michael Jordan’s steakhouse
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured, Politics
The issue of violence in Chicago has hit some rare air. A gaggle of luminaries ranging from a former White House chief of staff to a retirement age sports writer are all prepped to talk about what is being described as “Chicago’s […]
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The best choice for Chicago’s next mayor is…
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured, Politics
Politics – it is a double-edged sword in Chicago. For some, it never stops, while for others too much time is spent on it. Here we are about two years away from the next race for mayor, and the discussions […]
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Learn from but don’t condemn Rev. Jackson
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured
Probably, not many people who have watched the Rev. Jesse Jackson over the last six decades were surprised at how quickly the 75-year-old civil and human rights icon sprung into action when a video of a Vietnamese doctor being assaulted […]
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Steve Harvey did the right thing
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured
Facebook is on fire with posts about comedian Steve Harvey traveling to Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect. The majority sentiment, on the social media site, as well around the country seems to be that Mr. Harvey did something […]
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Now we do need a Black leader
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: featured
Most of my adult life I have vehemently opposed the term “Black leader.” I always saw it as a media construct. It was used during the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) by the media to help that industry place blame on […]
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OK Mr. Z, I’m on the radio
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: featured, Musings, Who is Glenn?
I am sure that back in the early 1970s the ritual was the same every semester. I would wander into Mr. Chuck Zuegner’s office with my schedule. He would peruse it, pick up his pen to OK it, and then […]
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City budgets aren’t so simple
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured, Government
It was early morning Septemeber 8 and WVON Radio host Matt McGill was handling a succession of obviously perplexed callers after he asked if the City of Chicago should add 500 new police officers. The basis for the question was […]
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We need to support the Bud Billiken
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured
This is an opportunity, not a problem It is very rare in our community that we have nearly a year to identify, assess and correct a situation. That is exactly what Chicago’s Black community is facing when it comes to […]
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Let’s end the race relations talk
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured, Musings
The onslaught of Black men being murdered by police across the country, the recent fatal sniper attack on Dallas, Texas police officers, and the same in Baton Rouge, La., the unrelenting bigoted language by the Republican Party’s apparent nominee for […]
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Collaboration needed in killings aftermath
- Post By: Glenn Reedus
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- Category: Editorials, featured, Musings
Two Milwaukee cops determined he did nothing wrong, but a third one shot him 14 times. RIP Dontre Hamilton Whether it’s newly minted activists or veterans of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), the slaughter of Black folks by police […]
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