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You can make a lot of noise, but the battle for civil rights doesn't become real until you take it to the courtroom.
There's yet another reason why men, in particular black men, might want to get into a relationship.
Chat with Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell live via streaming video today at 3 p.m.
Whatever decision Chicago Public School parents make on Sept. 2, returning students will have one thing on their minds:
Jerome R. Corsi's book about Barack Obama is a good example of the right wing's racial fear-mongering.
When "The Bernie Mac Show" hit the air in 2001, our family gathered around the television like it was a first for a black man.
Mary Mitchell: I wonder how crooked pols live with themselves. How do they look in the mirror? Look at their children? Walk through their neighborhoods? Former Ald. Arenda Troutman, a divorced mother of three, will leave her children a legacy of corruption and foolishness when she checks in to a federal penitentiary.
I can't be the only person who sees the snake in the room. The one that slithers away whenever the political pundits start explaining what the latest presidential poll means.
Let me take a moment to remind Rod, Emil and Mike, our local Democratic big wigs, of something someone reminded me of recently:
Michael D. Stoner, 52, has seen a lot of pain in the 11 years he has been a Cook County deputy sheriff.
Black people have to stop waiting for elected officials to figure out a more equitable way to fund education.
I was almost run over by a DHL truck Monday morning. Seriously.
If you thought Sen. Barack Obama would have an easy time before an audience of journalists of color Sunday, think again.
It was supposed to be a chance for journalists to hear from Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade about global warming. When the event turned violent, it exposed a shortcoming in the city's ability to guard a foreign head of state. Thankfully, Wade wasn't harmed.
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