During the last weekend of May 2020, 85 people were shot in Chicago – 24 of them were killed. According to the Chicago Tribune, “The majority of the victims of homicide in Chicago are young, black men.” A week earlier, on May 25, about 400 miles to the northwest, as… CONTINUE
Never Letting a Trivial Detail Go to Waste
It’s been one of those weeks where all kinds of disheartening stories have leapt, in rapid succession, to the front of the national news cycle. Included have been acts of police brutality, rioting and looting that are destroying people’s lives and livelihoods, and multiple counts of shameless political theater put… CONTINUE