Public education is dangerous, especially for the working classes. It gives people ideas, like that equality is a practical goal. It teaches them how the system works and makes them think they can participate...

Fewer teens may smoke with the new tobacco laws introduced by Chicago lawmakers. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city’s aldermen voted to raise the legal age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21. Chicago...

While opening the field house door of Ken-Well Park, I took a deep breath and stepped inside the voting station. Desks with tall cardboard privacy partitions were all being occupied by my Hispanic neighbors....

  There was a moment during history when a person like me would not be allowed to exercise my right to vote. Specifically for two reasons: because I’m a woman and a minority. This is a topic...

Q: I seem to be having a hard time remembering things lately. Even though I know I should write things down before I forget them, it seems like I get interrupted before I find a pen and paper. Then I lose...

Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Dillon Taylor, Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice are only a handful of lives taken by law enforcement officials. Yet, support for a national boycott of Beyoncé’s concerts because...

Some people want to burn rubber on the streets and to be the boss of the road, feeling the wind in their face and the adrenaline through their veins.Yet some just want to  ride through the streets worry-free....

While governors in most states are preparing budgets for 2017, Illinois has yet to pass its budget for 2016. In fact, the state hasn’t had a budget in eight months. Due to Springfield’s failure...

It’s that extremely green time of year again, when our beer, river and clothes are decked out in the symbolic color of Ireland. The raucous drinking spectacular we see on the streets of Chicago today...

I feel absolutely horrible for Kesha. No one should be forced to work with someone who attacked and raped them. That’s tantamount to asking a murder victim’s family member to work side by side with...

We live in sad time when some police officers refuse to accept responsibility for their mistakes, especially when those mistakes leave people dead. Chicago police officer, Robert Rialmo, who took the...