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Trump and BLM have a few things in common, not that they would ever admit it. Or care.
I was in the middle of a Chicago hot zone surrounded by blocks of National Guard troops forming a half-wheel around my neighborhood last month. While the Guard was ensconced at Sox Park (their epicenter) I was ensconced at home, apprehensive, tired, aghast, sad, confused and unable to deep sleep. My neighborhood was suddenly nothing... Read more »
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Thoughts on living in tents: under an Archer Avenue viaduct...in Chicago parks... that one time in Idaho...and that time in California's Steinbeck Country »
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It's been 35 years since Harold Washington ruled the City--and I'll never forget the day he died. »
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How come the US Government can only bring half the country's poor children out of poverty? »
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The day Gloria Steinem came to my house and I couldn't think of a thing to say »
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